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I had several accounts limited today. Reason: "It's been a little while since you used your account. So, we just want to make sure that you authorized some recent transactions."

I've logged on some of them using the same IP or sometimes the same cookies etc, however I've been logging on Paypal accounts using sometimes the same IP's for months and never had a problem like this. Normally I would use the same IP and cookies that I used for a limited account and have no issues. Something else must have triggered this. Also I'm not sure if IP is what they all got linked by.

A couple of weeks ago, while sending a payment to someone in Europe, I was asked to do phone verification to make sure that the transaction is authorized. Paypal never asked me to do this before.

Yesterday I made two small payments to someone, and within a few hours after that they limited a bunch of my accounts. By the reason given, it sounds like they suspected unauthorized activity. So it looks like the trigger was sending money to other people who might not necessary have a strong established account. And once they suspect unauthorized activity, they actually start linking accounts by IP, cookies etc. It's strange because they never bother to link accounts if an account gets limited for other reasons like "We need more information about you or your recent transactions".

So here's the actions, as I think, that might be triggering this suspicion of an unauthorized activity: logging on a Paypal account with a new IP and no cookies to send a payment to someone's not very established account or an account abroad.

If someone had their accounts mass banned recently (today maybe?) or has an opinion on why they mass limited a bunch of my accounts, I would very much like to hear about that.

In before someone tries to blame everything on using the same IP, again, when it comes to Paypal, I haven't bothered much about IP's for a long time, even if I used that IP for limited accounts, and had no issues until now.