Seriously, this has been open for years and there's still no fix for it? Closing the account seems to be the only feasible solution. I got a request from an unknown person today saying he was a student and essentially using paypal as a way to crowdfund tuition. Even if the story is true, which I doubt, why is this even allowed in the first place? This person's not in my contacts. I closed the request, and paypal automatically emailed the scammer and let them know my email address and paypal account are active. There's no button on the request or on his profile to block him. There's no button to report the request. There's no way to add him to contacts to block him. The only way so far I've seen to block this person seems to be in the paypal app, that does nothing to stop other accounts from sending me requests. I'm also not downloading the paypal app just to partially solve this issue. This is the first time I've even logged into paypal in almost a year and I'm not sure what the point of keeping the account open is. I looked for a way to lock the account until it maybe becomes useful again, but no. I can't even unlink my bank account even though I have no automatic payments allowed. So yeah, I use stripe and squarespace to process payments, & apple pay cash to send money to friends and family. Bye paypal.
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