Hello, Nairalanders. Please help me brainstorm in this issue.
It is about PayPal. We all know the restriction that PayPal has placed on Nigeria, and many other countries, in the sense that Nigerians with a PayPal account can only transfer funds but cannot receive funds. This has had a huge set back on us over the years, that many of us bloggers, and business owners whose business is holistically internet-dependent, cannot venture into a dimension of online business because most of these companies, especially international companies, pay through Pay because of fees.
Although I have seen many Nigerians operate PayPal accounts even in Nigeria. They got to by-pass the restriction by trickery. I read that some of them used VPN to open international PayPal accounts they are using to receive funds now. For others, I don't understand but they are using PayPal accounts that aren't Nigerian.

Considering all this, as a man of integrity and transparency, I don't like involving myself in illegal things, even though there may or may not be repercussions. I don't want to use VPN or illegal means to do things. I am also a victim of this PayPal restriction. I am a blogger and affiliate marketer. I have many ad networks and business that I am to receive funds from but because of this barrier, I had to forget them and pick ad networks that pay without PayPal.

Now, I remember I have a friend in Hong Kong in China. PayPal over there works well without restrictions. So I thought of telling him to help me create a paypal address over there with some of my details, so that I will be able to use PayPal fully, and expand My internet wings. He will use some of my details and his. Then after successful registration, he will hand over the PayPal account to me.

Now my question is:

Is this legal?

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Hello, Nairalanders. Please help me brainstorm in this issue.
It is about PayPal. We all know the restriction that PayPal has placed on Nigeria, and many other countries, in the sense that Nigerians with a PayPal account can only transfer funds but cannot receive funds. This has had a huge set back on us over the years, that many of us bloggers, and business owners whose business is holistically internet-dependent, cannot venture into a dimension of online business because most of these companies, especially international companies, pay through Pay because of fees.
Although I have seen many Nigerians operate PayPal accounts even in Nigeria. They got to by-pass the restriction by trickery. I read that some of them used VPN to open international PayPal accounts they are using to receive funds now. For others, I don't understand but they are using PayPal accounts that aren't Nigerian.

Considering all this, as a man of integrity and transparency, I don't like involving myself in illegal things, even though there may or may not be repercussions. I don't want to use VPN or illegal means to do things. I am also a victim of this PayPal restriction. I am a blogger and affiliate marketer. I have many ad networks and business that I am to receive funds from but because of this barrier, I had to forget them and pick ad networks that pay without PayPal.

Now, I remember I have a friend in Hong Kong in China. PayPal over there works well without restrictions. So I thought of telling him to help me create a paypal address over there with some of my details, so that I will be able to use PayPal fully, and expand My internet wings. He will use some of my details and his. Then after successful registration, he will hand over the PayPal account to me.

Now my question is:

Is this legal?

You don’t need to stress yourself about that and also what if finally he creates the account and later on tries to hack it back with your funds inside since he was the one that created the account for you? And I guess you dont know that you can get a fully verified Nigeria PayPal business account here in naija which you can use without vpn and also it can send and receive payment worldwide. I can help you create it for a token. If you are interested check my signature to contact me via WhatsAp