Paypal Question

[extremeghfan]

Hi, 

I've been a paypal member for several years. I have a question that I hope someone can answer. Is it possible to search for a person on Paypal by their first and last name? I wanted to see if they have a paypal account.  They may be buying an item from me soon.  Thanks in advance if someone can answer my question. 

extremeghfan 

[snowshoe]

Sorry, but, there's no features or options available to do what you have in mind however, what you can do is find out if the person has a verified PayPal Account - assuming you have that person's email address:

1. First you need somebody's email address...
( Let's use potato @ potato.com as an example. )

2. Go to PayPal, and log in

3. Copy and paste this url:
 https://www.paypal.com/verified/pal=username @ emailhost.com

4. Replace "username @ emailhost.com" with the person's email address
( In the example, it'd be https://www.paypal.com/verified/pal=potato @ potato.com )

5. The resulting page will show whether or not that email is linked to a verified PayPal account.
( It will show potato @ potato.com is NOT Verified in bold, red letters. )

Note, for the sake of posting, spaces were added to both the email addresses and URLs.
Make sure you remove the spaces when testing with your browser.