How To Open And Verify Paypal In Nigeria, Step-By-Step Guide

GOOD NEWS ! GOOD NEWS ! GOOD NEWS ! At last, Paypal is finally in Nigeria. This may sound too good to be true, but it's true and you just have to believe it. Even though there are still some limitations for now, but with time any form of limitation would be removed.

This is the dawn of a new era in the internet marketing industry in Nigeria. As a Nigerian, you can send money and pay for goods online with Paypal, but you cannot receive payments with it.

To receive payments online with Paypal, you still need a verified USA Paypal account. To open and run a USA verified Paypal account in Nigeria, follow this link to get the information http://tinyurl.com/laqnt6v

To sign up for a Paypal account legally in Nigeria and start paying for goods online with it, follow this link https://www.paypal.com/ng/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=6Bsbst7OzBWIi7G0F7pYgHKTMO-T2T7TtovMSIM7t1TT4HGbKmQtvQ-nI0a&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d5402c249c5a2cfd4a145d37ec05e9a5e and click on sign up. Select Nigeria as your country.

The following tutorials would help you in verifying your Paypal account legally in Nigeria. 

Before you click on that link, Confirm that you are using your real Nigeria IP address to login 

Step 1

Click on the link above and it would take you to a page that looks like the one below. Select open an account and choose the individual account option.

Step 2 - Fill the form correctly and click on agree and create account

Paypal will prompt you immediately to link a bank account to your Paypal account, as of now, you can use either a visacard or mastercard from Gtbank, Uba africard, or other banks that has a mastercard and visalogo on them to verify your Paypal account.

You also need to confirm your email address by clicking on the confirmation link or by using the confirmation code in the email Paypal would send to you to confirm your email address

Step 3- When you have confirmed your email address, you need to select and answer some security questions as indicated below. Do not forget your questions and answers. Write them down somewhere. You may need them in future.

After you have done this, move to the next option by linking a credit card to your Paypal account if you have not done so. You will see that option by the right hand side of your account.

The name on your card does not have to be exactly as the name you used in opening the Paypal account, but try and make sure it correlates with Your means of identification should you encounter any issue with Paypal in future. You can use your sister's/husband's credit card to verify if you don't have a bank account yet, but make sure you can confirm any money deposited through it. 

There should be at least $3 in this account which is equivalent to N500. Paypal would try to debit this account to make sure the card is working and you would be asked to verify this deposit inorder to confirm that you are authorized to use this card or to confirm it's yours. 

Important details on the card that would be required to verify the card are as follows

Card Number - This is the long digits written on the same line at the front of the card

Expiry Date - Written in the format 11/15 at the front of the card . What it means is that, the cardwould  expire by November 2015.

Cvv/Security Code - This is a small three digits written together at the back of the card. 

Once you enter all these correctly and you click on confirm, it would bring out the image below 

The code you are to enter is indicated below 

0912 is the code you are going to use to verify it. Your own code would be different from mine but I am just using this as an illustration. 

Once you do this, your status would change to verified immediately 

Once you have completed these steps, you are good to pay for goods from your favourite stores all over the world.

 Do not forget, you cannot receive money yet with this Paypal account, you need a Verified USA Paypal to receive money online, if you do not know how to do this, you can click on this link   http://tinyurl.com/laqnt6v but before you do so, log on to https://www.paypal.com/ng/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=6Bsbst7OzBWIi7G0F7pYgHKTMO-T2T7TtovMSIM7t1TT4HGbKmQtvQ-nI0a&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d5402c249c5a2cfd4a145d37ec05e9a5e to open a Verified Nigeria Paypal account first and see exactly how Paypal works. You cannot fund this Paypal with the credit card you linked to it. The balance is set at Zero. You can only send payments with it directly from the ATM card you have linked to it.

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