Why is My PayPal Account Locked?

Most of the people rely and loves PayPal. Their online payment security system really makes online
transactions fast and easy. Unlike other online payment methods PayPal make your online transactions happen with just a login and password. PayPal is widely accepted and is used by over 100 million users around the globe and monitoring that many users for fraud control is quite difficult.

Why PayPal Lock Your Account

Like many other Banking institutions, PayPal uses fraud and security automation to minimize their workload to some extent. But, unfortunately at times, their automation creates problems when you try to access your account overseas from a different IP address. PayPal takes it as identity problem and accuse you of being some else and you need to convince them you are not.

Unlike other banks, PayPal do not believe on what you say, they have typical lengthy procedure and documentation to be fulfilled before unblocking your account and obviously this will require time. You will need to provide them with whatever information they ask for. This may include scan copies of your personal information and copies of all previous documentations.

Prevent PayPal Account From Freezing Abroad

If you are a business man, tourist or travel quite often, there is a simple and quick solution to avoid your PayPal account from such blocks and limitations. PayPal fraud detection is mostly based on identifying your IP address (your country and city). You can easily control your IP location, no matter where you are on the earth, with VPN.

Almost every day we have customers asking for VPN connection after they find out their PayPal account is locked or limited when trying to access it overseas and it requires days to unlock it. They find themselves helpless and very inconvenient as they need to pay for their hotel rents, dues, shopping and other expenditures.

We suggest signing up for a VPN account before you travel abroad. For instance, you are an American travelling abroad and have intentions to use your PayPal account abroad for payments. Now, what you need to do is, connect your VPN account, selecting USA VPN server and then login to your PayPal account couple of times without purchasing anything. PayPal fraud prevention script will enroll this new IP address as a friendly IP and let you access your account from anywhere around the world via VPN.

Additional Security for Your Online Transactions

PureVPN offer multiple security protocols as per your VPN usage. These security protocols encrypt your entire internet connection. This means when you are connected to our VPN servers your personal data like emails, banking information, official documents, etc. are completely safe from hackers, data snoopers and identity thieves. By using PureVPN no third party or even your ISP will ever get to know about what you do online, what websites you visited or what transactions you made. Thus PureVPN is a complete suite of internet privacy, security and path to friendly internet.   

Cautionary Advice

There are few VPN companies that offer free VPN or free VPN trials to sell their services but these free accounts are not safe enough to perform online transactions. Such VPN accounts are usually abused by hackers and spammers, their IPs are associated with misuse. PureVPN takes maximum measures to prevent such unauthorized abuse on our IPs, resulting in some of the cleanest IP bank in the VPN industry.

At PureVPN we also offer dedicated IP that provide you the same IP every time you connect. Dedicated IP assign your VPN a unique IP address. This IP address is just reserved for you and your activities thus eliminating the risk of your IP being banned, blocked or black listed by any internet service for something some else did.