There are several ways to confirm your shipping address on PayPal:

• Add a credit card to your PayPal account. By adding a credit card to your account, PayPal can attempt to confirm your address with your credit card company. If the credit card company is not able to confirm your address, you may be asked to complete the Expanded Use enrollment process to activate your credit card. Your address can be confirmed after that process is complete. Note: Not all credit card companies are able to confirm addresses.

• Apply for a PayPal Plus Credit Card. If approved, the address on your application will be a confirmed address.

• Complete Alternate Address Confirmation. This process takes several days and is only available for U.S. accounts.

Although the vast majority of unconfirmed addresses are not fraudulent, PayPal offers confirmed addresses as an additional layer of fraud protection. Confirmed addresses help guard against stolen credit cards and identity theft. For example, a credit card billing address is confirmed because PayPal can check that the address is the same as the address on file at the credit card company.

Note: Confirming your address is a separate process from getting verified on PayPal .