Hi, Paypal evaluate the fraud risks of user transactions for obvious reasons. Using anonymous proxies will be more likely to flag you as a potential fraudulent transaction or stolen account. I had the same issue as the below - once cleared they don't seem to flag it again for the same reason. This seems a sensible policy to protect users bearing in mind the volume of fraud attempts via Paypal.
This is the same way as most online credit card processing gateway fraud systems will flag connections via TOR or other known proxies as higher risk. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of BlueStar88 Sent: 31 August 2006 22:43 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Could i use tor to login Paypal? Fabian Keil schrieb: > A month ago PayPal took my account hostage because they fantasised to > have reason to believe a third person had access to it. > > There were no unauthorised transactions, therefore I'm sure it's a > false alarm. > > Of course they didn't tell me their reason, but I assume it's a stupid > one. I wouldn't be surprised if it was because a change of exit nodes > while I was logged in. > > Fabian > My business paypal account is locked to reduced functionality too directly after loggin in via tor. Now i have to bring additional papers to proof identity again. I think they're checking the source ip against the registered home country. So if i call from Australia (i.e. Exit Node), but i'm registered to be living in France, they do like this. On one hand a cool security thing, on the other hand a bad side effect of tor... Currently i stuck at reduced paypal account. (There were no transactions in this time) Greets Manuel
