Scary Paypal Lockdowns

Hahaha luckily I haven’t validate my paypal account and haven’t tried using it so sad

it happened to my premier account too. good thing there’s just about $25 or so there. i tried to contact paypal several times but they really didn’t help much or provide any reason at all regarding this lock down. i’m hoping my personal account stays the way it is now. i know i’m being overly paranoid, but whenever my money in PayPal reaches over $100, I immediately transfer to my eon account.

How about verified paypal account? Do we have to worry about this? This is alarming.

Thanks for the info. Perhaps I shouldn’t try to unblock my account. It got blocked before we had full access, so I don’t have balance in there.

Waaa. Now this is really scary. Hope UnionBank issues me my EON card real quick.

Wow. This is really scary.

Actually, one of my paypal account got temporarily blocked because of a third party accessing it (according to paypal). I really don’t know what happened.

Anyway, it seems I can’t make it work so I just applied for a new EON card and made another paypal account.

what? goodness gracious. that explains my hesitation to receive funds via paypal. I just use paypal for my purchases abroad, and I’m still iffy about receiving money with it. still better to verify the account talaga. my friend in the US swears by paypal as the safest thing raw, e.

McBilly

Paypal puts a temporary block in your account if you log on to paypal using a different ip address than what is stored in their system. it’s only temporary and they do it to protect folk from accessing your account. just answer their verification questions and it will be unlocked.

I had an unverified Paypal account in HK for a long time. It’s still active to this day with a few dolla-s. Donate to the Yuga?

Unless their policy has changed (grabe naman), the possible offense could be more heinous. Like fraud. But that’s always a suspicion first. To be investigated later. Hope he/she’s innocent.

Verification lifts the limits. I called their support before and the lady assured me that using the (unverified) account won’t have problems except that there will be sending & receiving limits. I had nothing to worry about, she added. I can even withdraw to a HK bank account but only within those limits.

Unless, they changed their policies. Subra naman yun. :)

hi! I live in the US and have been a paypal member for about 3 years now. Just to share that while Paypal has its share of horror stories I still believe it’s the most convenient, safer and faster way to send and receive money online. Paypal protects its member’s accounts foremost and takes security VERY seriously. The only reason lock down happens is when you are not verified and then you are suddenly receiving money from different sources who are also not verified or of suspicious origins.

If you’re opening a paypal account, make sure you have it verified before you even accept money from other sources (The $1.95 charge to your bank account is refunded as a bonus/credit back to your paypal account after they have verified you as the holder).

Lock downs happen here in the US for paypal users using ebay and and are selling stuff to other countries. That raises a flag to paypal! I’m an ebayer too so I avoid dealing with international buyers to protect myself. I only sell to US residents. On top of that, I also receive money thru paypal from different sources online. So far, I have never had ANY problems with my paypal account counting almost 4 years being a member.

For my own security and peace of mind, I agree with the comments on not maintaining a balance on paypal. I have made it a habit to just leave $30.00 on my account when I know I’m buying something soon BUT most of the time I leave it ZERO balance! After all, when you need to pay- you can always use your bank account or credit card thru paypal as for there- your debit cards.

Forgive the lengthy comment. Just wanted to balance the comments and wanted to share my experience as a happy paypal US-verified member for 3 years. Mabuhay! :-)

I agree with you Jeffrey:

“Nothing scary with Paypal, only unverified members create their own scare.”

Yup correct, and that $1.95 isn’t really a charge, that amount will be credited back to your account ONCE you have verified your credit card (EXPUSE number something like that I forgot)

“Verification can only be done in minutes if you have online access to your card for after you have paid the 1.95 amount.”

Oh for those scared fucks again: here’s the word for the day for you all, its “UNVERIFIED”. Look up what is the meaning of that word and maybe you can link these so called lock-downs situations and why are they happening.

I like PayPal actually I never heard of any scamming during “that” time. the aboutpaypal.org website is obviously a black propaganda because whoever made that website must be promoting “Real merchant account”- http://www.free-merchant.com/ , paypal’s loss, their gain probably. A website of that kind looks like there is a catch somewhere.

http://www.paypalsucks.com/