How to Change a Name on Your PayPal Account
Published February 16th, 2007
Changing the name on your PayPal account is not something you do often, so it’s one of those ‘easily forgotten’ procedures which can baffle even an experienced user. There are several reasons for changing a name:
- marriage, or divorce
- changing a business name
- changing the contact person on a business account
- joining the Witness Protection Program (okay, I made that one up)
In these days of phishing scams and identity theft, PayPal has made it understandably difficult to make a name change on an account. Personally I’m glad, I feel my account is a little better protected. But still we need to know how to make a change when necessary.
When you want to change your business name, you can do so online by following the steps below. No extra steps are necessary. But if you need to change your whole last name, or change the contact name for your business, you are going to have to fax some information to PayPal. That is for your security. Just suck it up and do it. Further, if you only want to change 1 - 2 letters because your name is slightly mispelled, you can just follow the steps below and change it online.
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