Advice about openning a Paypal account

Hello

m8s,

I dont know if this is the place to post this but I need some advice. A friend

of mine who move to live in the USA own some money to me becuase Ive been helping him here

with some money problems with his family. He needs to tranfer monthly payments to me. WHen

he transfer the money from USA to Venezuela I get my local currency which are Bolivares

instead of Dollars. Due to my country currency exchange policy, it is really difficult to

get dollars up to ceratin amount. So I want to keep the dollars my friend send instead of

exchanging by transfer. Therefore I could use that money to buy stuff in the internet plus

other thing outside my country such starting my clan and get my clan system [10]

Anyway, lets go to the point. How safe is paypal to get an account where I can

transfer the money there so I coud use it in the internet??? Ive been reading about paypal

for a while and some scary stories came up. The other option is to open an account in the

states but I dont like the idea...

Any help would be

appreciated

Sincerely,

RG

I use to have paypal when I played JUmpGate

long time ago. Either way, to do the real job of getting and tranfer the money, they always

ask you for your credit card to check or verify the account. Otherwise, your options are

limited. As for the password I never let window to use the reminder option. I just dont

trust windows behavior neither firefox in these cases. I rather rely on my own mind

However, my question was oriented to anyone experience on security reason not to

get paypal cause what I read in the internet is pretty scary sometimes. Plus I want to know

if anyone is use to the process to get money into your paypal account so you could use that

money later in the internet.

Thank for you advice and info guys. Please, anything new

you could would be appreciated.

RG...out