Paypal Wants To Call Me Before I Send Money. What Should I Do?

Ad Dynamo and Chitika are websites I am currently using to make money into my Paypal account. Yesterday, I couldn't send my Paypal money to a friend despite the fact that my account is a verified USA account, though his own account is not a USA account.





"We're sorry, but we can't send your payment right now" was the error message that was displayed on the screen everytime I tried sending the money to him.



When I tried sending the money to another friend who also owns a verified USA Paypal account, the error message didn't appear but Paypal requested to call me to verify the phone number in my Paypal profile.



At this point, I knew I will not be able to complete the transaction because Paypal can never reach me on that phone number. I logged out without verifying the phone number and went straight to google how I can bypass the Paypal phone verification process.



After reading through series of forum and blog posts, I decided to get a USA phone number through which Paypal can reach me. I got the phone number for $18 (for 3 months) and ensured the area code matches the street address in my Paypal profile.



Today, I decided to use my second USA Paypal account (unverified) in sending $5 to the friend's account and fortunately, the error didn't come up.



I tried my verified Paypal account again and still didn't work. At this point, I suspected that it might just be my verified account that couldn't send money to the friend's account for reasons best known to Paypal.



So, I decided to transfer the money to my friend B, who also owns a verified US Paypal account and the fund was successfully transferred to him though, Paypal first asked me to enter the full bank account number I used in verifying the account.



Friend B has already verified the mobile number in his Paypal account and he was able to successfully send the money to my friend who couldn't receive directly from me.



This is how I was able to transfer my Paypal money without allowing Paypal to call me. Nevertheless, I will still add the US phone number I purchased to my profile to avoid Paypal limiting my account.



Have you experienced similar problem? Kindly use the comment form below to share how you were able to resolve it.



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