you have to use your online bank account number. i use bank of america, they give you an account number. its not the number on your card. use your card number for your online banking account, and use the online bank account number for paypal
I'm bumping this to vent/rant with yet another Paypal horror story.
Fuck Paypal. Over the past years I've gotten a few sketchy emails from them (and impersonators) concerning account activity that I did not authorize and that it may have been accessed by a third party. They've made it a monumental task to simply shut down my account. $400 dollars just went missing from my bank account and while PayPal was not responsible for it (I think) it's still a shady fucking business. I've heard too many horror stories resulting from them so I'm finally going through the over complicated and tiresome process of restoring my account access and then shutting it all down for good (hopefully).