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Posted by Felix Okoli on Wednesday March 13, 2013 at 9:56:17:
Since Paypal is not available to residents in Nigeria, the only other option for opening a verified account would have to be by using another country's residence which Paypal approves of. Well, here is a simple way I got a verified Paypal account in Nigeria.Things I used==============
- An email address
- A Dedicated Hong Kong ip address
- A Hong Kong residential address
- Internet service
- A Paypal Virtual credit card (VCC)Steps
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- First I got a Dedicated IP service from a VPN provider e.g worldvpn.net. It costs about $10 a month. That would be enough for me to open and verify my account- I also ordered for a Paypal VCC from virtual-cc.com. It costs about $9.99 per use. The card details were then sent to my email- Next I connected to my internet service and at the same time connected to my VPN service and that changed my ip to a Hong Kong IP- I then Googled for my ip location in order to find the closest city and then got a random address- I used that Hong Kong address and registered for a Paypal account- I requested to verify my Paypal account and added the VCC. Paypal then sent a charge to the card- Waited for some days to get the Paypal code. It took about 7 days and came in the format PP*1234CODE via email from my VCC provider- I connected to the internet again and chose to verify, added the Paypal code and the account was verified- I then got a confirmatory email from Paypal showing the account has been verified.Now, this has increased my limit and I can receive more payments and accept card payments too on the Premier account.
Comments:
Re: How I got a verified Paypal account in Nigeria Posted by Manouchka l innocent on Thursday May 16, 2013 at 23:16:26: I like paypal
Re: How I got a verified Paypal account in Nigeria Posted by Andrew B. on Wednesday August 21, 2013 at 24:15:7: Your content is very informative. Does paypal still allow virtual cards?
Re: How I got a verified Paypal account in Nigeria Posted by Felix Okoli on Wednesday August 21, 2013 at 24:15:7: As long as the cards are valid, I think they do. But it is much better to use a Payoneer Mastercard