Ask HN: How the PayPal Verification process works?
Hi,
I heard lot of horror stories about PayPal verification process. I have a fake account since I'm in a country where you can't receive funds with PayPal. I verified my account with a Virtual Credit Card that made me match its information with my entered ones.<p>I made this, well, 3 years ago and just forgot about it. I'm logging from my local IP (always), but  the other country is a neighboring one. Last days, I read a discussion on how someone account was blocked because he reached a $3.3K limit and how it took him two weeks to get verified. I was little bit frightened because I had a good balance there and my account is very active.<p>I was surprised that with the VCC and the 3 years-old verification, my account is still verified and there is no limit to my transactions. Hell, the verification process only took me 5 minutes!
I read on the PayPal website that the verification process is a very strict one (and is similar to military process or some crap like that).<p>So is the PayPal verification process fundamentally broken? How it stops legitimate users, while fake ones are not caught? Why PayPal is not working on this? What's problem actually?