If you have had an account limited or suspended from PayPal, it’s usually for the following reasons:
1. (Withdrawal) Too Much Money, Too Soon
2. Being linked to a previously Suspended / Limited Account.
3. Sudden change in activity
4. Withdrawing too much money over a longer period of time without supplying your SS number.
5. Violating PayPal’s rules in regards to acceptable websites, and transaction types.
6. Scamming people because you’re a piece of $h!t. In most cases, it’s either 1 – 4
Too Much Money, Too Soon:
It’s never a good idea, to start transferring thousands of dollars upon a brand new registration. This is a quick way to get suspended. There is no exact number for the first 30 days of a PayPal account.
Being Linked to a Previously Limited Account:
PayPal’s system is always scanning activity, they scan IP logs, they scan Cookies, and they scan activity. You NEVER want to log into an old PayPal account using your New IP address or cookies. You never want make that mistake, otherwise PayPal will catch on to that and flag you right away. Even if you change the IP, clear the cookies and not the flash cookies, you will still be linked and PayPal will flag that and suspend it. So don’t make that mistake. It’s going to be very important for you NOT to cross information.
Sudden Change in Activity:
This is very common, especially for Internet Marketers who may be setting releasing a new product. Once they “Launch” and get that instant surge in sales, PayPal might flag that account because it is a sudden and drastic change in activity. So watch out!
Withdrawing Too Much over a Long Period of Time (without having a SSN on file):
This is something new that PayPal is implementing. The reason why they started this is because in 2011 they are going to start reporting to the IRS, and they want each account to be linked to a S.S number. If you don’t have a SSN linked to your PayPal account, it is very likely that you will be limited sooner or later, and PayPal is going to ask for this information. Example: Some PayPal account was limited after they withdraw about $10,000 from the account over a period of 5 months.
Violating PayPal’s Rules: PayPal does not want you to accept payments for:
Porn, Gambling, Currency Exchange, Illegal crap, Credit Card Repair Service, etc… so just make sure you are within their Rules. Otherwise plan on having hundreds of PayPal accounts because they will catch on.
Scamming:
If scammers were not out there trying to rip people off, us good folk wouldn’t have to be jumping through all of these hoops just to use the service. But I guess there will always be people trying to take advantage of others. Those people just are scum.