I would think that some people might apply the same logic to dealing with PayPal. They may not want to reveal their identity to PayPal to be able to conduct business with PayPal. I am also not aware of any potential ways that someone could commit fraud with a purchased PayPal account that they could not do with any other PayPal account. I would say that using a purchased PayPal account would be somewhat similar to using bitcoin in a sense that both would enable someone to be pseudonymous (but would not have the other benefits of Bitcoin).
You're not aware of potential ways to commit fraud with a PayPal account that doesn't have your real name on it and doesn't have limits that you would otherwise have? Come on, you're just trolling now.
No I agree that you can commit fraud with a purchased PayPal account, however you can also commit fraud with a PayPal account that you create yourself with your own identity. This is why an appropriate response to someone offering proof of their identity to someone who will accept a PayPal transaction is that proof of identity will not protect against a chargeback.
I am not 100% certain on this, however I believe the "limits" that PayPal places on accounts will prevent the account holder from withdrawing
any money from the account because there was some trigger that the account tripped. I believe that by default accounts are not "limited" however I am really not familiar with the inner workings of PayPal.
Nice try comparing it to Bitcoin. You can't reverse a Bitcoin payment so it doesn't matter much if the counterparty is pseudonymous. PayPal is not pseudonymous by design and for a good reason. Buying and selling PayPal accounts is fraud in itself and an avenue for further fraud. No need to agree with me, it's a question of trust and I know we don't see eye to eye on these matters.
Bitcoin is reversible (or something that has the same effect as reversing a transaction). There are a fairly decent number of examples of when an unconfirmed transaction has gotten double spent, and an example or two when a transaction that was confirmed (at the time) was double spent.
Yes, technically using a PayPal account with someone else's name attached to it is technically fraud, however if you are using
Ron Roe's PayPal account (with his consent) but your name is
John Doe, you are really not hurting anyone and the fact that the name is different is not going to change the fact that someone is doing PayPal related business with you.
Regardless of if PayPal is reversible or not, people do still have their right to privacy.