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Read people’s complaints about PayPal account freezes, closures and held funds, with original sources and known outcomes. Records updated 4 November 2026.

Of 111 call outs in this archive, 3 report a resolution, 2 a partial resolution, 10 were unresolved at the last update, and 96 have no established outcome.

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37 call outs mention account freezes, 28 account closures and 32 held funds. Issue counts overlap when one incident involves more than one problem.

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Euphoria Li 🦋🌙🏮 | Carrd Comm Open@Euphoria_LiVTX
PayPal

A personal note... As much as it pains me to say this, I may need to open a fundraiser to help me get through the coming months. As much as I'd love to take on commissions, I unfortunately can't accept new ones right now because my PayPal account has been permanently restricted. I've had my account restricted five times, and each time, I've gone through identity verification and provided proof of my sales, screenshots, and everything else requested. Despite all of that, PayPal has permanently locked my account, claiming that my information couldn't be verified. My bank account is under the exact same name as my ID, so I'm honestly at a loss for words. I'll have to go back and forth between PayPal and my bank to try to resolve this, but in the meantime, I'm left without my primary means of receiving payments. Unfortunately, Stripe isn't available in the Philippines, either. I'm genuinely nauseous from the stress. I have outstanding bills from previous months that I couldn't fully pay, and I'm terrified of falling behind on rent to the point of facing eviction. I've been applying for jobs nonstop, and I even moved to the city hoping for better opportunities, yet somehow, things just keep getting harder. I don't know when this streak of bad luck will finally end, but I'm trying my best to keep going. T^T If you'd like to help me through this difficult time, support through Throne is currently the only way to send support that goes directly to my bank account. Every bit of help would mean so much while I try to get my finances back on track and figure out what to do next. It feels awful to have to ask for help like this, especially when I'd much rather be working and earning my way through things. But right now, I'm honestly scared, and I'm doing whatever I can to kee…

🔞Ophelia Velvet NSFW Voice Actress 🏳️‍🌈🩺💋@OpheliaVelvetVAX
PayPal

I’ve lived with a severe fear of dying—almost a paranoia. When I go out, intrusive thoughts whisper that something terrible is waiting. Maybe I fear death because it was my roommate in the womb. ‘No fetal movement.’ My mom was cleaning out old documents when she found my birth papers. She told me I had stopped moving. Green discharge came, and they thought I was lost. When I finally arrived, I was barely the size of a fist. My mom cried every day, she said. She prayed to every saint she knew. And with those prayers, daily sunlight, and the relentless care of a mother unwilling to surrender her child, I survived. These past months have not been kind. Last May, I had to leave my job suddenly—right in the middle of severe debt—and began selling almost everything I owned. I’m running out of things to sell. Then, after half a year of applying, I finally landed a job I thought would turn things around. It wasn’t what it was supposed to be, and I found myself jobless. Again. As if that weren’t enough, PayPal permanently disabled my account and locked me out of funds I worked hard for. Fiverr—the platform I built from nothing—was permanently disabled too. Some nights I ask myself: will I survive this? Will I be okay? I will be. I was born from hundreds of prayers and the intercession of saints, from my mother’s sun baths and her stubborn devotion to keeping me alive. Hard times come the way good times do. The sun rises, the sun sets, and tomorrow it rises again. I won’t give up, because those who loved me never did. Death did not take me then. I decide it won’t take me now either. Love, OV

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