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PayPal users to add US Bank Accounts before they can accept payment?

A Twittee from LiewCF draws my attention and later being confirmed after few PayPal users simultaneously seeing the same screen in Paypal. PayPal users are required to add a United States bank account before they can successfully receive any payment from any party. Here’s what you will see when you attempt to deposit a payment send to your PayPal account

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This seems like another security measure PayPal is implementing, however this could causes great trouble for Malaysian PayPal users to receive payments from online money making. Is Debit card the only way to receive payments for Malaysian PayPal users?

Updates: According to an e-mail LiewCF recieved from PayPal, this could be an error after server maintenance and they are working on it.

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Posted by hongkiat in Make Money Online, PayPal , at 05.11.07

Comments

  1. earl-ku May 11th, 2007

    hailat bro … how many u got stashed in there?

    Reply
  2. Bengbeng May 11th, 2007

    i face same problem, guess we just got to abandon paypal

    Reply
  3. Cyberpartygal May 11th, 2007

    Hi Hong Kiat,

    We have been told that this is just a temporary glitch. They are upgrading some features and I guess they screwed up a little.

    Will give them some time to iron things out.

    Reply
  4. pablopabla May 11th, 2007

    Yeah, Cyberpartygal is right. I got their email saying they need to resolve a glitch in their system.

    Reply
  5. KennyP May 11th, 2007

    My paypal account got no such problem

    Reply
  6. Adino May 11th, 2007

    Ahh… I see. Their temporary glitch got me worried for a few hours. My dreams of saving for a Nintendo Wii almost gone!

    Reply
  7. fazli May 11th, 2007

    same problem here :)

    Reply
  8. CypherHackz May 11th, 2007

    hopefully they will fix it as soon as possible. :(

    Reply
  9. napy8gen May 12th, 2007

    same problem also…let us email them daily about this.

    Reply
  10. Moses Francis May 12th, 2007

    So far no probz for me

    Reply
  11. menj May 12th, 2007

    I don’t face this problem because I already have a US “bank account” number (VMI card).

    - MENJ

    Reply
  12. ps May 13th, 2007

    itz still not fixed yet..damn them

    Reply
  13. Darren May 14th, 2007

    I tried callling them the other day to demand a status update, but I waited on the phone for 10 mins and no one picked up.. It’s been a while, but now i remember paypal’s dreadful customer service…

    Reply
  14. Darren May 14th, 2007

    Minor updated,

    I called them today and finally got through…

    This guy called Emmanuel seem to have no idea waht was going on, and he made me wait for a couple of minutes and finally he tells me that he will forward my inquiry to their global support and i’ll have to wait up to 72hrs for a reply…

    so there…

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  15. darkfox May 15th, 2007

    I called paypal support and they said they know that problem, and its a global problem for all the people which doesnt have us bank account.. he said they will try to fix it as soon as possible.. but that problem has been occured since 11 May.:(

    Reply
  16. michel May 15th, 2007

    Add US Bank Account (Of course not true, try random numbers), accept your money and delete junk US Bank Account :) It is so easy.

    Reply
  17. darkfox May 15th, 2007

    How do you use for adding random numbers? I tried that and it gave error :) you are not the first genius who is trying that

    Reply
  18. Cem LOUIS May 16th, 2007

    Hello,

    I am from Turkey. Lots of webmasters are dealing with the same problem in here Turkey. Also I have a friend from Iceland she has also the same problem in these days.

    Paypal should find a quick solution for that. If not they will lose a lot of online money maker in the following days…

    Reply
  19. hongkiat May 16th, 2007

    Louis: Thanks for the heads up. It seems that this is a global problem now. Certainly hope folks at Paypal will react and solve this a.s.a.p

    Reply
  20. Darren May 16th, 2007

    Dear D.Cheong,

    Thank you for contacting PayPal. We apologize for the delay in responding to your service request.

    We are aware of this issue regarding accepting payments and I sincerely regret the inconvenience it has caused you. Our technicians are working to resolve this matter. It is scheduled to be fixed beginning of June. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

    Please let me know if you need further assistance.

    Sincerely,
    Michelle
    PayPal Community Support
    PayPal, an eBay Company

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  21. Darren May 16th, 2007

    Sorry meant to type more but accidentally submitted. So what do you guys think the email means?

    It is scheduled to be fixed On the beginning of June

    or the “fixed” in this sense means that it will be fixed by then?

    Either way its a pretty long time to wait… I’m going to have to refund some payments first .. sigh…

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  22. ~TheAngel~ May 16th, 2007

    Hey Darren, if in case Paypal is only going to fix the problem only in the beginning of June, I guess it will cost some problems to many people who is using Paypal.

    For example now, I already have a few outstanding payment which I can’t receive. And the bad news is I only have 30days where I need to claim my money if not they will be automatically refund the payment.

    After that, I probably need to acknowledge my payee to send my payment again but in the end, if I’m not wrong either Paypal or my payee will charge me some extra process me for resending my payment.

    I’m sure this is going to happen to many of the people who is using Paypal service as well.

    Another thing is, if I have not forgotten, the “add bank problem” has been started since 9 or 10 May 2007, so we rather hope Paypal will resolve the problem by 8 June 2007.

    This is because all payment will be refund by 8 June 2007 and so on which is 30 days from the date variation.
    …sigh…

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  23. Darren May 16th, 2007

    i hope somebody’s head is rolling for this, i guess i’ll order the vim card and hope it comes quickly so i can add as US bank account.. :|

    Reply
  24. jo May 17th, 2007

    hi all
    I can help you to find a temporary solution for the problem with payment accepting
    contact me in my email.

    keseftov@gmail.com

    Reply
  25. Planet Malaysia May 22nd, 2007

    The problem is not solved yet :( (Last Updated: 22 May 2007 10:34pm)

    Reply
  26. Chek May 24th, 2007

    Just noticed that I also face the same music. Really curse on Paypal, what a computer glitch. Cannot accept my paypal payment. Now I know why there are some many people pissed on paypal

    Reply
  27. aksaray October 29th, 2007

    Paypal should find a quick solution for that. If not they will lose a lot of online money maker in the following days…

    Reply

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