Ed Earns

After I made a Paypal transaction online, I received an email from PayPal themselves notifying me of a Limited PayPal Account Access being done to my account. I was shocked! – I still had some funds I needed to withdraw at that week because of an important trip that I’ve been saving for.

Of course, with these Paypal emails, I usually don’t believe them right away and I have a better eye in checking for PayPal scams. However, this seemed legit because of so many ways. Here’s a body of the Paypal email message I got:

Dear Edxxx Sxxx,

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. During a recent screening, we noticed an issue regarding your account.

We have reason to believe that your account was accessed by a third party. Because protecting the security of your account is our primary concern, we have limited access to sensitive PayPal account features. We understand that this may be an inconvenience but please understand that this temporary limitation is for your protection.

Case ID Number: PP-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx

For your protection, we have limited access to your account until additional security measures can be completed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

To review your account and some or all of the information that PayPal used to make its decision to limit your account access, please visit the Resolution Center. If, after reviewing your account information, you seek further clarification regarding your account access, please contact PayPal by visiting the Help Center and clicking "Contact Us".

We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department

It was written in all plain text and the email addresses on the email header were correct. I was scared shit of what might happen to my account knowing that I still had about 300 dollars left which I was planning to use for a trip.

So when I logged in back to my Paypal, I had to follow a few steps in order to restore the limited access of my PayPal account.

Here are the Steps that I took in order to restore Security and access my Paypal again.

How To Restore PayPal from Limited Access Notification Email

Step 1: Update Your Credit Card or Bank Account Details

Step 2: Enter a New PayPal Password and Pick Out your Security Question & Answers

Step 3: Confirm Your Email Addresses that are Linked To Your PayPal Account

 Step 4: Verify Your Email Addresses again   

Step 5: Once You Click Submit, You’ll be taken Back to Your Account Overview Screen in Paypal.

What happened after all the filling out of data was that I was greeted back to my account with my balance still intact. Phew!

Those steps in updating my account and security were good but I’m glad that the Limited Access Notification Email was just a false alarm. The email was legitimate but I thought my account was really put on hold. But it wasn’t!

I was wondering too, because the previous transaction that I made which was withdrawing money in Philippine Peso currency was reversed and I had to withdraw the Peso amount again in PayPal. I immediately took the remaining money that was left in it; including the dollars that was available.

Situations like these, I am wary and I feel a bit crazy because of how easily the money can be thrown away after how many months of saving it. I’m just glad that PayPal has never let me down so far.

I also received another update in my email wherein PayPal apologize for the inconvenience that they caused due to this recent security update and that they wanted to make my account secure. My PayPal account has been successfully restored!

Word of warning to my readers: Always make sure that the email comes from PayPal themselves and make sure that it’s not a scam. Here’s an entry on how I was able to detect some PayPal email scams.

My account has been reduced to a LIMITED status.

Because of the previous issue I had with somebody hacking my paypal account, I’ve been undergoing a lot of changes to help boost the security. Ever since my paypal account got hacked, I received a number of precautionary measures to help keep my account more secure. One of which is to change my password to a stronger one. I was able to set-up two security questions as well.

The only thing I need to ensure now is to upload a file that has my proof of billing address. I’m planning to scan my credit card statement and upload it in their server which will serve as my proof of billing. I just hope they accept it.