₦airaland Forum

Yesterday,the news broke out from Nigeria's fintech company Paga CEO Tayo Oviousu. He stated that Paga had teamed up with PayPal to bring to Nigerians a way to accept and convert USD to naira from PayPal via Paga.

The problem is that a lot of Nigerians are completely against the move and are encouraging a lot of people to boycott PayPal.

The question now is. Will you use PayPal now that they're back?

Why not! Fellow Nigerians has defrauded many people in the guess of opening paypal for them they ended up defrauding them. To me it is a great news for online vendors to sell their products ad receive payment online

If i say i hope nigerians ignore them make dem fail na dream i dey dream cause them will pack in there, forgetting how much a trash they treated us

bmd1010:
If i say i hope nigerians ignore them make dem fail na dream i dey dream cause them will pack in there, forgetting how much a trash they treated us

They did nothing to you though. If you have proof, provide to us.

donsheddy1:
They did nothing to you though. If you have proof, provide to us.

Really? PayPal did nothing to Nigeria/Nigerians? For years even people.in Niger Republic could use Payptand a whole Naija couldn't. And that's nothing? Do you know the missed opportunities for Nigerians? How we had to be finding ways to open Botswana or Namibia PayPal?

airsaylongcome:
Really? PayPal did nothing to Nigeria/Nigerians? For years even people.in Niger Republic could use Payptand a whole Naija couldn't. And that's nothing? Do you know the missed opportunities for Nigerians? How we had to be finding ways to open Botswana or Namibia PayPal?

Boss, I know the struggle too. I also knew what the fraud level in Nigeria was back then. PayPal simply couldn't or rather do not have the capacity to fix Nigeria for us then.

donsheddy1:
Boss, I know the struggle too. I also knew what the fraud level in Nigeria was back then. PayPal simply couldn't or rather do not have the capacity to fix Nigeria for us then.

Is there more fraud in Nigeria than in America? Or Russia? Or India?

Well at the time (Early 2000s), Yes!

airsaylongcome:
Is there more fraud in Nigeria than in America? Or Russia? Or India?

Signing up start away,..... But how can someone sign up.

donsheddy1:
Well at the time (Early 2000s), Yes!

lol! Really? You deep down in your heart believe that any point in time there are more fraudsters in Nigeria than in those countries? Gather ALL the yahoo boys in Nigeria, dem no reach the fraudsters in any of those countries. We are just loud mouthed bottom feeder scammers. India and Russia operate at a higher level of the food chain than all our Yahoo boys. Do we operate large scale call centres that scam people on an industrial scale in the West? India does that. And have been doing that long before Internet Cafe’s became a thing.

airsaylongcome:
lol! Really? You deep down in your heart believe that any point in time there are more fraudsters in Nigeria than in those countries? Gather ALL the yahoo boys in Nigeria, dem no reach the fraudsters in any of those countries. We are just loud mouthed bottom feeder scammers. India and Russia operate at a higher level of the food chain than all our Yahoo boys. Do we operate large scale call centres that scam people on an industrial scale in the West? India does that. And have been doing that long before Internet Cafe’s became a thing.

Lol all of that started later on in India and not at the time PayPal was banned in Nigeria.

donsheddy1:
Lol all of that started later on in India and not at the time PayPal was banned in Nigeria.

Let’s even agree that those are the top 5 in the early 2000s. Which of those countries were banned by PayPal?

Virtually all of them had a restriction aside China which was already struggling with Alipay at the time.

Russia, Romania and Ukraine had similar restriction as Nigeria. They can't receive using PayPal but they can make purchases with their PayPal account.

I know you to be a man of research yourself.

Why are you even wasting your time going back and forth with him. Leave him jare let him go to PayPal make him sef experience wetin men dem face.

When they block him account with $5000 inside he shouldn't come here screaming

airsaylongcome:
Let’s even agree that those are the top 5 in the early 2000s. Which of those countries were banned by PayPal?

Jecci:
Why are you even wasting your time going back and forth with him. Leave him jare let him go to PayPal make him sef experience wetin men dem face.

When they block him account with $5000 inside he shouldn't come here screaming

It doesn't work that way because you said so.

If we check am well, I've been freelancing way before you got your first phone. When PayPal shared the circular that they will be restricting Nigerians, we who were mainly earning through surveys back then stopped running surveys and withdrew our monies back then.

We focused on working normally in the corporate world since remote work wasn't common them. I knew people who still ignored and used PayPal and they were burned really bad.

Today, if someone is crying that their money was seized by PayPal in 2021 or 2025, I just see them as stupid and fraudulent irrespective of how legit you think your money was made. If you know that it's risky to receive money into an account you were informed that your country does not support and you went ahead with it, then you're either stoopid or a fraudster.

donsheddy1:
Virtually all of them had a restriction aside China which was already struggling with Alipay at the time.

Russia, Romania and Ukraine had similar restriction as Nigeria. They can't receive using PayPal but they can make purchases with their PayPal account.

I know you to be a man of research yourself.

Shaaa come use my payment platform when I have it laid out. Looking for a Rust dev to build plugins for Nigerian Payment processors in case you know one

airsaylongcome:
Shaaa come use my payment platform when I have it laid out. Looking for a Rust dev to build plugins for Nigerian Payment processors in case you know one

I'm your guy.

donsheddy1:
It doesn't work that way because you said so.

If we check am well, I've been freelancing way before you got your first phone. When PayPal shared the circular that they will be restricting Nigerians, we who were mainly earning through surveys back then stopped running surveys and withdrew our monies back then.

We focused on working normally in the corporate world since remote work wasn't common them. I knew people who still ignored and used PayPal and they were burned really bad.

Today, if someone is crying that their money was seized by PayPal in 2021 or 2025, I just see them as stupid and fraudulent irrespective of how legit you think your money was made. If you know that it's risky to receive money into an account you were informed that your country does not support and you went ahead with it, then you're either stoopid or a fraudster.

I'm sure there's no point in your whole 60 years on earth you've used PayPal for a transaction above $10

gistray:
I'm sure there's no point in your whole 60 years on earth you've used PayPal for a transaction above $10

Well I've used PayPal to process more payments than you'll ever make though.

Our lives did not start and end here on nairaland.

donsheddy1:
Well I've used PayPal to process more payments than you'll ever make though.

Our lives did not start and end here on nairaland.

$5000?

Is that your monthly data subscription budget on there's another screenshot?