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Paypal Issues Reports

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  TBaango (@KarongoMunga) reported 33 seconds ago

  @ntvkenya I've been using PayPal since 2014 without any issues. Follow their policies, keep your account compliant, and there's usually no reason for it to be limited or frozen.

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  IGBO Stanford (@Onyemaizuchi) reported 5 minutes ago

  @manifestosantoz @MaxwellMbae @JoshOO1J Those are your friends. We don’t use PayPal in Nigeria, and also don’t have issues with the Paystack and other platforms available here. Kenya settle your issues with PayPal, leave Nigeria out of this.

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  SlimeBattery🔞 (@SlimeBattery) reported 7 minutes ago

  This is probably the last time i'll be able to get a payout from Itch, as i've been kicked off payoneer and paypal goes out of their way to hunt down nsfw artists. So its possible that after this i'll simply shut down my itch page. (game might make it to steam one day tho)

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  TBaango (@KarongoMunga) reported 7 minutes ago

  @amerix PayPal is the best and most secure payment platform...I've been using PayPal since 2014 without any issues. Follow their policies, keep your account compliant, and there's usually no reason for it to be limited or frozen

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  Silicon Salvage (@SiliconSalvage) reported 8 minutes ago

  There is a graveyard in American tech right now and nobody is walking through it. Companies down 70, 80, 90% from the highs. Still profitable. Still growing. Still the leader in their category. Just unloved. The Trade Desk at 9x earnings. PayPal at 12x with $6 billion in free cash flow. Adobe at 17x and people are talking about it like it’s Kodak. Etsy at 8x EBITDA running a marketplace that two billion people have heard of. Roku trading below its own balance sheet liquidation value if you squint. Match Group, Zoom, Pinterest — each of these would have been a hedge fund’s top pick at this multiple in 2017. Now they’re orphans. Everyone is buying the Mag 7 because the Mag 7 is the trade. The Mag 7 IS already the trade. The trade is over. The next trade is in the rubble pile. You don’t get rich buying what worked. You get rich buying what stopped working for reasons that turn out to be temporary. Every name on that list was a market darling 36 months ago. The fundamentals didn’t fall 80%. The narrative did. Narratives come back. Earnings compound. I’m not buying NVDA at 45x. I’m buying the names CNBC won’t say out loud anymore

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  DismasWaTabu (@DismasWaTabu) reported 10 minutes ago

  I have seen people ask why use PayPal even after knowing the issues. Why not use alternatives like Payoneer, Skrill, or other payment platforms instead? If you are new to the gig economy, you are about to find out why. When you are starting out, you have nothing. No clients. No track record. No referrals. You are hungry to get your first job. You will take anything. Then a client comes and says they only pay through PayPal. What do you do? You say yes. You cannot afford to say no. You do not have five other clients waiting. You have zero clients. This is the trap that catches new entrants. You need to build your reputation. You need referrals. You need clients who will recommend you to others. One good client at the beginning can make or break your career in the gig economy. So you use PayPal even though you have heard the stories. You have seen people's accounts frozen. You have seen money trapped for months. But you think it will not happen to you. You need the work more than you fear the risk. And this is exactly why PayPal knows they can do this. They know new people are desperate. They know we will accept whatever they demand because we are trying to survive. They know we cannot negotiate. The alternatives exist. But they do not matter when you are new and you have nothing. You take what the client gives you. You use what they tell you to use. And you hope you do not become one of the frozen accounts while you are still trying to feed yourself. This is the burden of being a new freelancer in Africa. You do not have power. You have desperation. Dismas wa Tabu. Dreaming in installments. Billed in full.

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  HiveMind_254 (@gitoi_false) reported 12 minutes ago

  @DismasWaTabu We need to audit, locally costs about 20k, a lot. He agrees, gets the money later in the month, not immediately. What would happen to a person who took a loan for a project? PayPal, fix your stuff. You run guys out of business,

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  Emie your degen Chaos Gremlin💖 (@EmiEinjeru) reported 13 minutes ago

  @TwitchSupport @Twitch Really? You have a creator who has things set up as you suggested and their payment method was still hacked. Wouldn’t it make sense to maybe block a payee when you know they are fraudulent? I understand with PayPal it’s hard to clawback but this is kinda BS. It’s a known issue that creators are seeing over the last few months and it feels like nothing has been done to heighten security to help better block fraudulent activity. You are a big corporation please do better

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  mtu_Qutu (@Kailemiaa) reported 16 minutes ago

  @MkenyaMzi Mimi nami PayPal closed two of my accounts with more than $1400 in 2024, nikawaandikia but wakasema their not is final... I sat down and looked for loophole in their system and after 1 year nikapata. Let's just say hakuna mwezi huisha kama sijatoa $500

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  Jawwwn (@jawwwn_) reported 16 minutes ago

  “It became clear AGI was 10 years away. Maybe 30. But the company was going to be out of business in 12 months.” Peter Thiel said fraud was so bad at PayPal, the woman running the fraud dept cried herself to sleep every night and they tried building AGI just to stop it. “There are some things computers are much better at than humans. There’s some things humans are much better at than computers.” “There were 20 investigators looking for needles in a haystack.” “We had a team of mathematicians and computer scientists trying to build an AGI system to track down all the bad people.” “The critical answer was figuring out the right division of labor where computers would screen through things. And then humans would qualitatively investigate them.” “That turned out to be incredibly powerful.” At the 2009 Singularity Summit

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  Benjamin (@bthom93) reported 19 minutes ago

  Dear @PayPal, your customer service fixed my issue. We are friends again.

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  PatrickAmusivwa (@stunsns_) reported 20 minutes ago

  @barrack_gumba @_classicbooks_ So i has the same issue , i downloaded the hawala app or use hawala watakupea us bank nikalink na paypal which iliwai kuwa bnned 180 days ikakua unblocked first transaction ilikua refunded to paypal second io bank wakasema its their error niredeposit , then nikalink na eqty

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  de_mkuu (@de_mkuu) reported 22 minutes ago

  'Your man' haujui PayPal is down in currently na hata haimhusu🤧

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  EverythingAnnoysMe (@1getannoyed) reported 24 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal There should eb a slider for all these extra securities and we should be able to turn them off completely if we want to. Because I do not want to use it I am harassed every time I login. I want to choose the level of security for my accounts.

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  HiImKai || PREDEBUT || 🐱🩷🩵 (@Kaichaikat) reported 30 minutes ago

  @KrzyDays @vexmlk @PayPal Asking and mentioning because she said the issue they had was 2023 and I am only now hearing about these bans for this specific reason. I dont know what the policy was I just got here but that might be why this option wasnt one though everyone says it like its so obvious.