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And their requirement that the e-mail address I entered be the same e-mail address used on my PayPal account!? What's up with that?
This is to protect your PayPal account from malicious use and I am sure PayPal will require that the email address match or else PayPal will reject the order also.
When you are ordering such things that require authorizing, you must use valid addresses (as well as other valid information) or else it apppears to them that a malicious attempt is being made to access your personal accounts. For obvious reasons, disposable email addresses are not valid addresses.
In the 7 years that I have used avast, they have never misused my personal information and neither has element5. In my very recent order, Element5 sent me at least 3 emails notifying me of the progress of my order ......
1- to notify me of the order being made.
(this is something I would want to know in case I did not make the order and can not be done with disposable addresses)
2 - to verify the order was processed.
(of course, you would want to know this)
3 - a reminder that the order would show as "DRI*www.avast.com" on my credit card account.
(also something I would want to know and can not be done with disposable addresses)
If you feel you can not trust a security company, who can you trust? You have to trust that they use a reputable company to process the orders and they do.
So, what is the problem? The problem is they see an attempt to use your account and they have no idea who you are. The attempt looks malicious because email #1 is returned because a disposable address is used. They now have no way to contact you nor anyway to verify the order.
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