Our son is 21 years old and lives in a paperless world. He had no problem sending the money home through PayPal. The problem arose when I tried to send it to another family member with PayPal. We thought this wasn't going to be an issue, but apparently it was. The reason why we didn't have our son send the money to the other family member drectly is because she didn't remember her PayPal password and I use my PayPal account all the time. Nothing nefarious there. A few days later we decided to send the money to the other family member's PayPal account because she was going to pay a college tuition bill with it. Again, PayPal says you can send up to $10K, so how were we to know sending $9K would be a problem? My issue is that PayPal does not make these kinds of security issues known in plain lanaguage so people can make informed decisions about how to transfer money. I understand the need for security and I'm glad they are vigilant. However, in this case it was extremely frustrating to find out PayPal could block our money transfer and that no live human could lift the security block after several long discussions on the phone. There must be a way to verify parties involved so that families can send money to each other.
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