How to Open a Paypal Account in Nigeria and as a Nigerian

Below is a step-by-step guide to open a Paypal account in Nigeria. This is through the backdoor for you who really need paypal account for affiliate marketing purposes and other money making online ventures.

I’ll advice you do your due diligence and be careful in applying the steps not to get your account closed.

The requirements you need is an email address and a liberty reserve account funded with $10. Paypal does not accept Nigerians, therefore you are advised to change your IP (Internet Provider) address to a country Paypal accepts and that you want to use in registering with Paypal.

How to change Your IP address

First of all, you need to check your IP address of your internet service provider by visiting www.ip2location.com. If your IP address is in Nigeria, you need to change it to any of the country that paypal accepts for example United Arab Emirates, China, Cyprus etc. Paypal account holders from these countries are not required to add their bank account to Paypal.
You can get your desired IP address from the sites below:

• http://www.proxy-list.org
• http://www.proxy4free.com
• http://www.proxy-listen.de/Proxy/Proxyliste.html

The next steps

Follow the next steps after you have succeeded in changing your IP address

• Go to www.google.com and type the yellow page of a UAE, Asia country that Paypal accepts
• Choose from the list of links that comes up
• Use a detailed address of any address that comes up.
• Then head over to www.paypal.com and register a free account
• Choose premium as the type of account opening and continue
• Fill in the required details.You can use your name, and use your desired email address and password you wish for your account
• Use the address you have gotten to fill the form. The post code will be the number in the address and in addition fill in the city and state followed with the country of the address. Note the chosen country is the country of citizenship.
• Fill every other part of the form and click on sign up.
• Paypal will send you a confirmation by email. Go to your email and click on the confirmation link to confirm your account.

Verifying Your Account

The next step is to verify your account. Follow the steps below to do just that.
• Go to www.virtual-cc.com. You will see 3 different cards at the page and click on the ‘Virtual CC Paypal Verification’. On the next page choose $7.50, and add 1 as the quantity you want, including your email address and click on proceed.
• On the next page at the top right side, click on ‘Checkout 7.50’ button to make payment with Liberty Reserve.
• The card details will be sent to your email between 30 minutes to one hour. You will have to use this card within 24 hours.

After receiving your card details, then go back to your Paypal account and log in. Then click on the ‘Link and confirm my Debit or Credit card’ to add the Visa Virtual card and get verified.
After successfully adding your card to you account, you will be asked to provide a 4-digit number.

No head back to Virtuall-cc.com, and at the top you will find ‘Request Paypal code’ link. Fill the form through the link with your card number and your email address. Check your email for the notification within 10 to 20 minutes.

When you receive the notification, then go back to Virtual-cc.com, type in your card number and email address and click on send request. Next you will see as an example XXXX PAYPAL. The XXXX represents the 4 digit number for the final verification.

Login to your account, and add the 4 digit code to verify your account.

Reasons why Your Paypal account can be limited

• Amount of withdrawals
• Unecessary numbers of chargebacks or refunds
• Large amount of money going in or out of the account
• IP’s and proxies of unsupported countries
• The type of product you sell and buy

Prevent your Paypal account from being limited by following the next steps:

• Avoid opening new accounts with the same I.P address
• Avoid receiving large amounts of money soon after account verification
• Avoid logging into your account from different IP ranges
• Avoid frequent changes to your account information
• Avoid unnecessary adding or removing of credit cards to your account
• Avoid withdrawing large amount of money you receive immediately or trying to send it to another account not to be suspected of fraudulent activities.
• Avoid keeping more money in your account.
• Make sure your website is in compliance with Paypal’s latest policies

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