Bingo originated in 16th century Italy, when it was known as 'Lo Guioco del Lotto D'Italia', and eventually reached America in the late 1920s when it became known as 'Beano'. Over the next 80 years Bingo would be played in clubs, homes and by children worldwide, until finally appearing at online casinos where people could be playing for the same jackpot on opposite sides of the planet.

In today's world, many of us have tried playing online bingo, perhaps with a free trial or by depositing money to a site with our credit or debit card. Unfortunately, this second method of play is not entirely safe because spyware and viruses can mean that third parties can get hold of bank details when they're typed in to make a deposit. The vast majority of online bingo sites utilize safety locks, data encryption and secured pages to ensure this doesn't happen to their customers, but sometimes the strength of a virus is just too much to protect against.

This is where bingo with PayPal really comes into its own. Known as an e-wallet service, PayPal is designed to eliminate the hassle and danger of giving your bank details over the Internet every time you want to play bingo or top up your bingo account. All that's needed to play bingo with PayPal is to visit the PayPal service's website, create a user account and link it to one of your existing email addresses, give your bank details once and transfer money from your bank into PayPal. From there, you create an account on the bingo website and simply give your PayPal email address along with the amount of money you wish to play with.

Bingo with PayPal is a very safe and easy way to play online. You can keep track of your spending because you're not paying straight from your credit card, and there's no danger of your details being shared with those you want to keep them from. What's more, a huge number of merchants accept PayPal payments, including eBay, so if you find yourself wanting to stop playing bingo with PayPal and have some balance left over then you can treat yourself to a gift. In addition, if you sell items on eBay then you can get paid into your PayPal account, and use that money to play on a number of European bingo sites around the web.