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Will it be suitable for me to ask friend in USA to open account BOA?
I have stealth PP account in PayPal.com/ee (ESTONIA). I have verified Business account.

How to get 2 Paypal accounts with 1 bank:
Use a credit union!
I have been on eBay for 3 years and use The Golden 1 Credit Union (based in California). For each bank account you open get 1. an account number 2. a book number. You can enter both of those as 2 seperate bank accounts into Paypal and they will NEVER know its the same account.

This sounds extremely interesting. Any one else test this?

Aspkin - do you want Australian things as well? Havent read all 7 pages, so i dont know if you already have an Aussie list.

There's no Australian list per se.

So would it be helpful if i give a list for what i use? ie bank and cards?

Indeed, very helpful.

Problem has been the inaccuracy of info. ;)


Put the info here for the moment. I'll work with you to keep it going

The banks i have used, who are fine with paypal are NAB (national bank, anz and bank west). I have numerous accounts with each of these, and the paypal accounts are stealth of course.

The ccard i use is from Woolworths/Safeway. Its a prepaid online mastercard (fluro green and available on the shelf), costs $2.95 minimum load $20. No id needed to get one etc. Have used over 15 of them, and had no issues with paypal or ebay.

Phone - telstra and westnet, can signup in stealth name with no id, as long as you pay the bill, noone asks questions. Of course you can only have the one number, so only useable for one account.

PNC Bank works with mismatched names in the US, just verified several paypal accts with them.

What is PNC Bank?

Thank you

Do you have the name for this card? I don't have Safeway here in TX.

Thanks

Mind the flag, he/she is AUS.

CC: Woolworths Prepaid Everyday Money Card here as well - they come in green, blue, black, or pink - all work the same
Bank: Been using Commonwealth Bank creating multiple accounts online real quick with no problems
Phone: Australia Virtual Phone Number | International Call Forwarding or Skype works too
Not too sure about Faktortel but I heard it worked for some people in the past

hsbc should be marked "questionable". I've used it for stealth names before and worked fine but recently funds are being returned back to amazon.
might want to update the sticky

PNC Bank and Fifth Third Bank work perfectly with Paypal, and you can send funds to your accounts with mismatched names. With Fifth Third Bank you can open up savings accounts online once you're a member at their bank. With PNC you can print out a form and mail it to them and they'll open another savings account for you.

Are savings accounts a good idea? There has been some debate on savings accounts

Ive used online savings accounts from HSBC and ING Direct (verification only) without any problems. Ive withdrew to regular savings accounts from Bank of America, PNC, 53, and Chase/Wells Fargo without any problems either. The only one that Im iffy on is Etrade (verification only). Ive used dozens of them earlier this year without any problems, but started having trouble with them and Paypal around Fall. Ive recently bought more etrade accounts so Im still testing them. Ive withdrew money into my HSBC online savings account with mismatched names, but they dont like it when you start moving too much volume. I moved $1k+ within a week or two and they gave me a phone call to stop it. Also, this is the HSBC Online Savings Account which you sign up for online. Not to be confused with the regular savings account.

FWIW, Georgia's Own Credit Union also works for receiving deposits from PayPal on stealths. I knew I'd have to be the guinea pig on that one. Their free checking is really free, they have fewer fees than big banks and are tapped into ATM networks allowing surcharge-free access at 70,000 ATMs. They have branches in the Atlanta and Savannah areas.

problem with savings accounts in the US is that you are limited to 6 withdrawals/transfers out of an account coded as a savings account per month.

My credit union is now saying that some law (terrorism money laundering?) is limiting them to 6 withdrawals or less a month for an account to be considered a savings account. Of course the UK could be totally different, but there might be issues for some on this board along those lines.

I would totally advise AGAINST using savers from Lloyds tsb - they gave me a lot of trouble and interviewed me for 40 minutes. quite scary. Other savers might be ok though?

6 transactions post to your account. Not 6 withdrawal