Paypal Virtual Credit Card (VCC)
These days people are looking for more and more virtual credit cards for doing their online business or shopping. Now there is a good news. Paypal is about to offer an online virtual credit card called “PayPal Secure Card.”
It is being launched today for US customers. International customers will see it soon as well. Reuters repots that this step of Paypal is in response of Google checkout service. Paypal is tying up with Mastercard to create your unique virtual credit card number.
So where does it help us people using Paypal?
The biggest benefits to us is that we can use our paypal funds even at places where paypal is not an accepted mode of payment. We can just make the payment through our virtual credit card and the payment will be deducted from our Paypal account.
So, overall thats a great step by Paypal. It will increase their use and market share, and will help Paypal users as well.
Edit: I am not very happy the way they have implemented it. I downloaded the plugin and installed it on my computer. I use firefox browser. It keeps popping an inline window on every page I visit which has an online form. I hate that. I have not downloaded any form-filler. 
Also, many times it is slowing down my browser like anything. So, as of now I have disabled it, but I think it is time to remove it. Sorry paypal.
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16 Responses to “Paypal Virtual Credit Card (VCC)”
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Deepak Kanakaraju responded on 20 Nov 2007 at 7:19 pm #
But I am afraid that VCC will increase the cases of fraud as it has no name on it.
jimkarter responded on 20 Nov 2007 at 9:53 pm #
I am not sure it will increase such cases. Though it is called “Virtual Credit Card”, it is actually a debit card, which is linked to your paypal account. So its just another way of paying from your paypal account.
martina responded on 21 Nov 2007 at 1:05 am #
Jim send them a message about the difficult you found after you download it, so they probably will care about try to fix it. It is avaible here in Italy already(few months), but honestly I dont really need it!
jimkarter responded on 21 Nov 2007 at 9:16 am #
I have already let them know. I think I will give it another trial after a month or so.
Abhishek Daaga responded on 21 Nov 2007 at 11:43 am #
I too used the plugin yesterday and am not really satisfied with them… Hope this is just for trial and they implement more ease and safe method in future.!!
Gult responded on 23 Nov 2007 at 1:00 pm #
Is it available in India? Paypal is asking for me to add bank account repeatedly even after I added one to enable this feature. And after installing the plug-in, the login from the plug-in’s pop-up is not working and it says wroog log-in
jimkarter responded on 24 Nov 2007 at 1:24 am #
I am from India and it is available for Indians as well. But it seems the paypal need to work a lot on the plugin.
javad responded on 24 Jan 2008 at 2:02 am #
hi dear sir i am javad from iran and i need a solution for verify a paypal account can you help me ? (i think i should get a paypal account from india country) thanks
Nasir responded on 30 Jan 2008 at 11:40 pm #
We should learned to abandon Paypal for good..why would i get my virtual card from Paypal? Paypal security is very low and as result many fruadsters got paypal passwords and users name and they as they want..
I wake up and all my fund disappeared…
I got already VCC for many sites issuing it such as worldwide-virual-visacards.com and card444.com
So its not a BIG deal if paypal got virtual card
blogger responded on 29 Mar 2008 at 12:13 pm #
@nasir: you have to pay more than $25 bucks for each card, whereas you get the paypal cards for free. so how do those merchants with no records fare better than PP?
besides, i think pp is pretty secure. it’s your fault you lost all your funds. most probably what happenned is that you fell for a phishing site duplicating the paypal template, you probably entered your user:pass on those scam sites.
additionally, i don’t think all your funds can vanish without a trace. if you’ve got half a brain, you’ll know who and where those money went to… it’s simple point n click
james responded on 28 May 2008 at 7:20 pm #
yup i also think it will be helpfull for indian too where paypal is not avaible in all payment gateway…
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Sathi responded on 15 Jul 2008 at 8:38 pm #
You can get genuine vcc also in visavcc.net
PayPal VCC | Steps To Verify Paypal Account responded on 23 Jul 2008 at 12:10 am #
i’m using paypal vcc to get my paypal account be verified and it’s working well for me.
reon responded on 05 Aug 2008 at 11:58 am #
Vcc is the best way to get verified status in Paypal for minors below 18years age who cant get real cc.
Larry responded on 09 Nov 2008 at 5:43 pm #
i always use verifycards.com to get vccs they are so quick and they respond fast.
John responded on 02 Dec 2008 at 11:16 am #
Can you tell me where can i get virtual credit card, i dont have to be for free..
i try on verifycards.com but when i want pay it said : Sorry, but there is no active payment system.
Can you tell me why?