Blocking non US Dollar currency payments, but they're still going through.

[innoc]

Under Payment Receiving Preferences, under the setting "Allow payments sent to me in a currency I do not hold:"  I have the following checked: "No, deny the payments"

I recently received a payment from someone with an Asian name with Asian lettering, but with a confirmed shipping address located in the US - Portland, Oregon.  The reason why I think it was paid in foreign currency is because I was charged the higher paypal fee of 4.4% instead of the normal 2.9%. 

So, if there's no other hoop I have to jump through, and the transaction was in fact paid in non US Dollars, why did paypal not block this payment?

[innoc]

I just double checked my "Manage Currencies" page and I have US Dollar (Primary) as the only one listed.

I can't find any reason why the foreign currancy payment would have gone through.

[Whac-A-Mole]

so now you have 2 balances?one is US currency and one is foreign currency?

what is that currency?

[sharpiemarker]

@innoc

You're only blocking currency, not where the accounts are from.  

Go back to that settings page to block users with non-us accts.

And you were charged the cross border rate because the sender acct is a foreign acct even if you received payment in USD.  Click on the classic view link on the transaction details and you will see in bold text, Non-US Verified, in parentheses.

[innoc]

I had that setting checked.

"Block payments from users who:"  and I have the following checked: "Have non-U.S. PayPal accounts" and "Block non-U.S. shipping addresses"