PayPal Europe Sarl & Cie, SCA

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3578832 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Fri Sep 16deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Funds blocked or frozen, Identity checks and access

In the Ombudsman’s words

PayPal placed a limitation on the account and as part of this the funds in the account were restricted.Funds blocked or frozen

PayPal requested Mr B’s identification in order to lift the limitation but Mr B refused to provide it.Identity checks and access

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3578832.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.

The outcome shown is the Ombudsman’s own published classification, not our reading of the text. Nothing here is legal advice, and a decision concerns only the complaint it was made about.