PayPal Problems!! Help Please!!

[binaryman]

Paypal Problems!!??&$$#*help Please!!

Wonder if anyone has some advice for me here. I know many of us domainers use paypal and I have used them now for the past 3 years without a problem..that is until just now. I just concluded a deal here on Namepros and the buyer promptly paid the money into my Paypal account. I tried to transfer the money from my Paypal account into my Bank account as I always do except this time I get a message that my account with Paypal has been restricted due to possible fraudulous use of my account and because security is of such high concern to Paypal my account is now blocked. I can only receive money but not withdraw any. In order to lift this blocking I have to go through a very complicated process of steps including sending by fax copies of my gas and electricity bill, copy of my passport, copies of recent bankstatements to paypal. I have to download and print out a form from paypal containing a secret barcode unique to my account and fax this together with the documents. Then it says if they dont receive these within 7 days my account will be permanently blocked. Jeeeeshhh what's all this Sh''';;87te???
Any help or advice will be appreciated.
Regards
Fred.

 

[floatingworld]

Really?

That's interesting.

yes, the paypal account really was locked and I couldn't pay any of my ebay bills at the time....if you open a normal bank account, the bank requests all this stuff when the account is opened....with paypal they suddenly spring it on you some time after you have been trading with them....

 

[MrRhee]

your money is not lost if you submit all the info they request asap.
I also highly recommend "personal" users switch over to "business".
you have nothing to lose if you can them asap to verify & acknowledge that you are complying with their request to send in info. Ask them to "make a note on your account" that you are going to give them what they need.

and good luck. happens every now and then. I had a large sum in their once, nothing went wrong... I had barely 100 another time, and they froze my account. LOL. Luck of the draw.

once again... do everything they ask but call them first to make sure.

GL.

 

[floatingworld]

I have just received a spam notification of account freeze so as has been stated above be careful that the messages are genuinely sourced.