Pay pal holding on to my cash

[Newmai]

Just had the dreaded withdrawral limitation put on my stealth UK paypal account.

They are requesting photo id (passport/driving license etc) which i don't have.

The are holding about £6k so I need to get access to the money

what's your advice?

[agent006140]

If UK is like US,⊗⊗⊗⊗ driver license and passport would not work.

[SaiJin]

Originally Posted by Newmai

Just had the dreaded withdrawral limitation put on my stealth UK paypal account.

They are requesting photo id (passport/driving license etc) which i don't have.

The are holding about £6k so I need to get access to the money

what's your advice?

Can you paste in here what the limitation email is?

[rsot]

What category of sales OP? Risky stuff?

[Newmai]

Originally Posted by SaiJin

Can you paste in here what the limitation email is?

Here's the email i received (I'm not selling anything risky. I have no disputes open and tracking uploaded for every order):

We need some information from you.

Why do we need this information?

We've noticed some significant changes to your account activity. We need some information from you to help us understand this kind of account activity better.

We've also temporarily limited certain features in your PayPal account.

Currently, you won't be able to:
Make a payment
Withdraw money
What should you do?

Log in to your PayPal account and provide the information we've requested.

[drakehound]

Originally Posted by agent006140

If UK is like US,⊗⊗⊗⊗ driver license and passport would not work.

Does the US Government provide this information to PayPal?

[agent006140]

they can verify both,if you are stopped by local police,they can do so in their car.
US customs check your passport from its data base as you enter the country,private detectives can tap into it as well to see if you are put of country or in jail

[Gotya108]

Originally Posted by drakehound

Does the US Government provide this information to PayPal?

Paypal uses services of companies like LexisNexis which runs identity info through a number of databases to find and match records with the provided data. Pass fugazi documents and they won't be able to match database info to the documents.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by drakehound

Does the US Government provide this information to PayPal?

That info isn't provided but likely PP uses algorithms to check if ID info is valid...

[drakehound]

Originally Posted by rsot

That info isn't provided but likely PP uses algorithms to check if ID info is valid...

Clearly an American's driver's license number and passport number are private, and not a matter of public record...?