PayPal SMS messages — what it actually sends
PayPal sends an SMS code when you add or confirm a phone number on an account. This page shows what those messages look like — the sender IDs, the wording, the countries they land in. The codes themselves are redacted: the feed is the reference, not a way to read someone else's login.
Latest PayPal messages
5,975 messages observed · 10 shown · illustrative sample
- PayPal🇪🇪 Estonia12s ago
PayPal: •••-••• is your security code. Don't share your code.
- PayPal🇳🇱 Netherlands31s ago
PayPal: •••-••• is your security code. Don't share your code.
- PayPal🇵🇹 Portugal1m ago
PayPal: •••-••• is your security code. Don't share your code.
- PayPal🇺🇸 United States3m ago
PayPal: •••-••• is your security code. Don't share your code.
- PayPal🇩🇪 Germany7m ago
PayPal: •••-••• is your security code. Don't share your code.
- PayPal🇪🇸 Spain14m ago
PayPal: •••-••• is your security code. Don't share your code.
- PayPal🇬🇧 United Kingdom22m ago
PayPal: •••-••• is your security code. Don't share your code.
- PayPal🇵🇱 Poland38m ago
PayPal: •••-••• is your security code. Don't share your code.
- PayPal🇪🇪 Estonia51m ago
PayPal: •••-••• is your security code. Don't share your code.
- PayPal🇳🇱 Netherlands1h ago
PayPal: •••-••• is your security code. Don't share your code.
Illustrative sample — not a live feed. Codes are always redacted.
Which countries PayPal delivers to
What we know about each PayPal route, labelled by its source. Routes we have measured ourselves come first; a route we know nothing about says so in words.
- 🇪🇸SpainWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇨🇳ChinaWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇹🇷TurkeyWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇵🇭PhilippinesWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇬🇭GhanaWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇯🇵JapanWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇧🇷BrazilWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇬🇧United KingdomWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇵🇰PakistanWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇪🇪EstoniaWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇵🇱PolandWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇩🇪GermanyWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇻🇳VietnamWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇫🇷FranceWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇮🇳IndiaWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇪🇬EgyptWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇺🇸United StatesWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇳🇱NetherlandsWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇨🇦CanadaWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇳🇬NigeriaWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇧🇩BangladeshWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇵🇹PortugalWe don't have data for this route yet
- 🇮🇩IndonesiaWe don't have data for this route yet
The limitations, plainly
Public pools are shared, recycled, and frequently already flagged by anti-fraud vendors. PayPal may refuse a public number outright, or accept it and never deliver the code.
Any code that does arrive on a free number is visible to everyone reading the page — including whoever used that number before you. For an account you intend to keep, that is a real risk, not a theoretical one.
PayPal messages, in detail
Why are the codes hidden?
On purpose. This feed exists to show what PayPal sends — the sender IDs, the wording, the shape of the message — not to hand out live codes. Publishing the digits would mostly serve people trying to enter accounts that aren't theirs.
What does PayPal actually send?
PayPal sends an SMS code when you add or confirm a phone number on an account.
The feed above shows the message shapes we've observed, with the code replaced by dots. Sender IDs vary by country and by PayPal's own routing — the same flow can arrive from a branded ID in one country and a generic gateway ID in another.
Why didn't a PayPal code reach my free number?
PayPal, like most large services, filters public pools. The number may be refused at the form, or accepted with the code silently dropped. That's a property of shared numbers, not of this site.
What's different about a private PayPal number?
It isn't in a public pool, so it isn't pre-flagged the way shared numbers are. Before you pay we show what we actually know about the route — our own measurement with its sample size, a named supplier's figure, or a plain "no data yet" — and if no code arrives, you don't pay.
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United States numbers
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8 of 39 servicesGermany numbers
8 of 39 servicesPoland numbers
8 of 39 servicesPortugal numbers
8 of 39 servicesSpain numbers
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8 of 39 servicesChina numbers
8 of 39 servicesCanada numbers
8 of 39 servicesJapan numbers
8 of 39 servicesFrance numbers
8 of 39 servicesIndia numbers
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8 of 39 servicesPakistan numbers
8 of 39 servicesBangladesh numbers
8 of 39 servicesIndonesia numbers
8 of 39 servicesBrazil numbers
8 of 39 servicesPhilippines numbers
8 of 39 servicesVietnam numbers
8 of 39 servicesTurkey numbers
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