About PayPal
PayPal is the online payments company headquartered in San Jose, California. PayPal sends one-time security codes by SMS when you confirm a mobile number, log in from a new device or browser, change sensitive settings or use two-step verification.
PayPal Is Not a Place for a Public Number
A PayPal account can hold money, linked bank accounts and cards. The phone number on a PayPal account is used for security codes and account recovery, so a public number would let anyone who reads the inbox see those codes. Do not attach any of our free numbers to a PayPal account you use for real payments. Use a number only you control and, where available, an authenticator app or passkey for two-step verification.
What This Page Is Useful For
The public PayPal inbox shows what genuine PayPal security messages look like in different countries. That helps you recognise fakes: PayPal does not ask you to reply with a code, to call a number from a text message or to share a code with anyone.
Spotting PayPal Phishing Texts
Fraudulent texts often claim that an account is limited, that a payment is on hold or that you received money you must confirm, and they link to look-alike websites. If you get such a message on your own phone, open the PayPal app or type the PayPal address yourself instead of tapping the link.
Testing Without Real Money
Developers who integrate PayPal into online shops can use PayPal's sandbox environment and test accounts to simulate payments. Our free numbers are suited to checking SMS delivery from other services during development, as long as no real payment details are involved.
Payment Tools and Proxied Mobile Proxies
Proxied provides 4G/5G mobile proxies with real mobile carrier IPs in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain. Businesses that manage e-commerce tools remotely can work from a stable mobile IP in the country where their business operates.