I was surfing through Nairaland when I saw this post on How to get a verified PayPal account; so I felt its nice sharing the steps involved here since not everyone is aware of it; hence, it will be beneficial to every body.Its an undeniable fact that Paypal, the most widely used online payment system in the world, has refused to add Nigeria to their list of supported countries because of the high rate of corruption and fraud in the country. That's really sad! And to think of the fact that that has even cost Nigerians with good intentions the opportunity to use this tool is even more heart breaking. I know many Nigerians that are ready to pay anything to get a verified account to partake in the unlimited fortune stream flooding the internet. For this i'm here to help because i feel your pain and was once in your shoes until i cracked the code. The information you're about to get for free is what some people charge as much as N8000 to give or to open the account. I'm going to take you through a step-by-step method of opening and verifying your paypal method here in Nigeria by yourself without need of hiding your IP and all that.
This is a method i personally came up with and it worked after several months of research online.
Ok, let's get started!
Here's what you'll need.
A blackberry phone with BIS
A USA virtual bank account (VBA)
So after these are ready you'll need to follow these steps.
1. Open your blackberry default browser and go to Whatismyipaddress.com. You're doing this to check the ip and location of your phone. If your phone is London used like mine, the country shown there should be United Kingdom. I've not tried this on other phones though, but no matter where you bought your phone just try it, hopefully the ip location is not going to be Nigeria. So whatever the country is, note it. It might be relevant in the future.
2. Go to Paypal.com. This is the home page of USA paypal. What you're trying to do is open a US paypal account. The idea is that since you are opening a US account from a UK ip, paypal might think you're resident in the UK but maybe you're a US nationale and you want to open the account and link it to your US bank account...you'll understand about all that later...let's just continue! ...Look for the signup link and click it. It takes you to another page to validate the country you want the paypal account to be opened in (which is going to be USA by default). Click the button to go to the next stage. Here you will need to fill in the form with your personal details like name and all. But the problem is where you get to your address and phone number. You don't have any, so here's what to do.
3. Go to Usyellowpages or any other yellow pages service you know. Just type 'us yellow pages' in google and you will get enough results. Choose a suitable state and city and you'll get a list showing so many business contact details (address and phone number) in the US. Copy down this details somewhere safe you might need it later.
4. Fill in the remaining details in the paypal form and conclude the signup process with a valid email address. An email to verify your signup will be sent to you. Please and please don't open this email through any other means apart from your default blackberry browser. Don't open through your laptop or customized blackberry browsers like Opera. You will be using the default blackberry browser throughout the signup process. Infact anything you want to do relating to paypal should be done through your bb browser.
5. After you have verified your signup, Congrats! You now have a paypal account, though unverified. We've successfully crossed stage 1. Now to stage 2, the verification process.
6. Now you need to verify your account and for that you will need a USA virtual bank account (VBA). You could search online for people who provide US VBA services. The irony of the whole matter is that most people that offer this service accept paypal payments only. I was able to pay for mine because i had made some cash into my unverified account initially. But if you search adequately you could luckily find sellers who accept Liberty Reserve payment, which is quite rare though. So you pay the VBA seller and he sends you the following:
A routing number
An account number
Bank name
A login ID and;
A password
7. On your paypal home page click on get verified and input all the details you will be sent. Click on continue and it will take 1-3 minutes to get instantly verified and there you have your account verified and ready for use for unlimited number of transactions on the web. That's what you wanted right?...For those who have problems getting a VBA seller that accepts Liberty Reserve, pm me, i can accept your LR payment and purchase the VBA for you with my paypal account if you so wish.
So that's it! Quite simple i guess. No need to keep on hiding your ip like a rat that's being chased around. Browse the paypal account comfortably on your phone. However i personally do not recommend keeping large amounts of money in your paypal. When the amount is getting bigger, try order something online or better still transfer to your LR account or any other means so you don't get messed up by paypal. The fact that you're verified doesn't mean your account can't be limited. Even US and UK citizens who have thousands of dollars in their accounts have had their accounts limited because they fail to take safety measures. Beware!
Warnings:
Unless you're using your blackberry phone with a UK ip or you are in the UK or US itself, don't attempt to open you account from any other location or device, else you will have yourself to blame.
You don't always need to login to your account. Just login only when you have something extremely serious to do. Alert on any transaction you make will be sent to your email. So you don't always need to login to your account.
Don't hestitate to drop comments and testimonies. If you have any questions i'll be here to entertain them.
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