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This may be construed as begging for merit. Not a good idea.

I have tried to summarize the main actions which will help you to avoid cheating while selling bitcoins (or other crypto assets) via PayPal.   ++ to karma to all of you who gives me merit for this topic=)

I) You should know that PayPal is the most inappropriate way to trade crypto assets! There are many other safe payment methods.

II) If you positively choose PayPal as the method of getting money from the buyer, then (BEFORE sending BTC) ask him to:
- pay as family and friends;
- send the funds only as a “gift”;
- provide additional documents* (see at the end of topic)

III) Withdraw money from your PayPal account immediately after acceptance of funds from the buyer. Depending on where the seller lives, these bank transfers can take 2-5 business days, although the money should be relatively safe as soon as PayPal marks the request as “completed.”


* list of documents which the buyers must provide you:

1-Proof of ID (Passport, Driver license or ID Card) (IN HIGH QUALITY)

2-Selfie (entire face) with ID in hand (readable) (IN HIGH QUALITY)

3- Screenshot of the buyer's OWN VERIFIED PayPal Account balance - ONLY PAYPAL VERIFIED ACCOUNTS -

4-For Business Account, Proof of address

5-Paypal info & ID must match

6-Proof of payment with own balance

7-The letter, authorizing the trade.
must be written by hand and then take a picture of the buyer next to his/her face ('selfie'):
I, <buyer's name>, accepts that I am buying XXXX amount of WICKED bitcoins for the PayPal price of $ XXX.XX. I am willingly acknowledging that if I attempt to make a chargeback that all information will be presented to PayPal including this agreement I am voluntarily acknowledging that this is a valid purchase and the compilation of this information is for validation purposes. Signed <buyer's name> + the number of the buyer's ID CARD

If the buyer's account is business, then he/she will have to do the same, but in a stamped sheet of his/her company and duly stamped.


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So, believe me, if a dishonest buyer, using PayPal as a means of cheating, faces all your requirements he just cancels the transaction.

There is no blockchain balance. Blockchain is a technology system, not related to economy. Bitcoin is a payment made to promote blockchain technology. You can convert
Bitcoin to cash on exchange through the exchange, you can find a seller from a country you are on https://localbitcoins.com.

I agree, it is not a good trend and I fear it will only become worse in the future. Pay attention by sending your ID documents to the ICOs!

You're forgetting why certain members are more popular than others. Usually, it's because they have something worthwhile to say, so of course they'll get more merits. An unknown newbie with something worthwhile to say will also receive merits, and they may even become popular, given time.

You can only give 50 merit to a user in a 30 day window.
Unless they have an alt account, they cannot give you 100 merit (right now).

Same problem, 4 alt accounts?

For sure, you have already read depressing news about the Facebook's ban of advertising crypto currency.
I have already experienced this. I want to tell you about what and how Facebook does and what you and me can do with it. (https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/30/facebook-is-banning-cryptocurrency-and-ico-ads/)

1. Don't participate a bounties, which ask you to add the links to your posts. Before the announcement of the ban, Facebook began to form a black list of companies and campaigns for advertising crypto. It includes links to company websites and ICO, to groups in Telegram, to blogs in Medium and to Facebook pages. Any posts / reposts containing these links are blocked. That is, you made a publication, copied / saved the link for the report, and an hour later it was already broken, there are no publication anymore.

2. Do not take a bounty, which ask you to add the hashtags to posts. There is the similar situation with it. The most popular of them are also easily tracked by Facebook, with the posts / reposts containing them happens  the same  - the ban.

3. When you are writing your posts, pay attention to the vocabulary you use: ICO is better to write completely initial coin offering, you can replace coin with token. Words cryptocurrency, bitcoins, altkoins, etc., let try not to use at all, it is better to write an alternative currency, etc.

4. If the most part of your friends is in a crypto community, the more you are protected from blocking your account. The fact is that if your publications do not have the above listed markers, Facebook will be able to learn that you advertise the crypto only if someone complains about you. It is clear, that all our accounts are public, but our news is regularly seen only by our friends and subscribers, so it's very important to add new friends very prejudicedly and check the list of existing ones.

5. Once a hour or more, check the "Notifications" menu in your profile, they show all the locks of your posts / reposts, they are indicated by the mail envelope icon.
If you think that your publication did not violate Facebook's rules, click on the button "This is not spam," if you made a mistake, ignore the notice and write a new post, according to my recommendations.

6. I don't want to, but have to ... You need to add a phone number to your page. 1 number - 1 account
If you are blocked, this will save you from losing the page. Keep always near at hand the photo used in the profile of Facebook, it will help verify the identity. If your name is crypto, bounty, etc. urgently correct it for the existing human name.

I hope that this will help us in our already hard work.
If you have something to add, write, I will update the topic.
Wish you all the good!
Plus Merit if I help you with this information)