PayPal is required by law to know more about their customer to verify that the information given at sign up is accurate since PayPal does not have the pleasure of doing business in person with you. You have to fork it over, I’m afraid. You can thank the Patriot Act and the what’s it called, The Bank Secrecy Act for that.
I'm not a new customer, had an account for years. Funny, PayPal has not said yhis is a regulatory requirement. So it probably isn't. Regardless, I see no reason to provide information to close my account. Keeping my account open is not an option as this point, there's no value in it for me any longer.
