How to get Paypal in the Philippines

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Sign up for Paypal in the Philippines!

Someone emailed me today asking some advice about Paypal. He wanted to ask how to sign-up for Paypal even if he’s in the Philippines.

Paypal will tell you — you can’t. Yuga will tell you — technically, you still can. I call it proxy registration.

If you have a relative or a friend who lives in a Paypal approved country. You can ask them to use your email account to sign-up with PayPal for you. They will also need to have a bank account to tie up the Paypal account and be verified.

Once application has been approved, usually a souple of days, you can now use that Paypal account to receive the send money to other Paypal account holders.

Please be reminded though not to use it right after registration as the IP addresses are being logged for authentication. In the first few weeks, ask your relative or friend to do the transactions for you.

After maybe a month or after several successful transactions thru Paypal, you may try logging in yourself. During login, you may get a warning that you are accessing Paypal from a country where it is not approved then you will be asked to verify or authenticate your account. It will ask for random information like your middle name or your US bank account number so be ready to have this information with you. If you cancel your login because you don’t have this information, your account me be flagged and eventually locked. Don’t use it too often, maybe just once a week. Let the system get used to you but not too much. It’s even better if you have a static IP so the system will at least remember you on that end.

The logic behind this is that you act as if you were in the US (or any Paypal approved country) when you signed-up for Paypal and then you just happen to visit the Philippines when you accessed your account. This is not a sure-fire alibi but at least you are consistent. There are other valid Paypal account holders who have had their account locked just because they accessed it from the Philippines.

And oh, if you are using Paypal just to received payments, do empty it or offload to the bank as often as you can (and you know why). Mind you, this is not a long-term solution but others get by (like me for example).

Update:
Forgot to tell you that this is not a legit method. It’s just a quick way around for you to get hold of a Paypal account.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

31 Comments

noel says:

19 years ago

to workaround the IP tracking thing, what I did was to use a proxy server to access our paypal account. The IP of the proxy is US so it works like a charm.

Just make sure your access to the Proxy server is via HTTPS and the proxy also support HTTPS connection to paypal.
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kzap says:

19 years ago

ya proxy your paypal info, that better be secure.

if your paypal account is opened using US ips and such then you go and open it with a philippine IP there is a very good chance it will be locked and you will not be able to do much with it, to unlock it you might have to fax them some info like drivers license /passport etc, theyre very strict about foreign acccess and sometimes their system just bans you, like sometimes it doesnt like changing ips. Bottom line is its best if you open your own bank account in a paypal approved country then use it from here, that way your account is legit and you verify your account if paypal flags you. Oh I’ve heard they can freeze your bank account too.
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Abe Olandres says:

19 years ago

As long as you trust the proxy server.

What I used to do before was connect to a computer or server in the US which I have access to (via RDP) and login to Paypal from there.
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markku says:

19 years ago

Yuga, I think your paypal advise might constitute TOS violations, at least from their point of view. But they should really start serving countries like the Philippines, we really need it, right? ;)
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Abe Olandres says:

19 years ago

Ahh yes, Markku, forgot to put out a disclaimer.
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Allan says:

19 years ago

For the mean time, i kasi wala pang paypal dito sa atin nakikisuyo muna ako sa myusmailbox.com to pay my ebay.com seller.
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tony says:

19 years ago

i have sold over and over on various paypal accts. each one has limited access within weeks to provide id/utility/inventory etc. even once i have done this i am given my parting ways statement and money held for 180 days.

what is their flag period for a new account? how do i overcome this?
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jossie says:

19 years ago

That is something very dangerous to do. Paypal is very strict when it comes to account handlings. One complaint from a buyer or a seller and your account will forever be terminated. One reason why paypal does not allow Philippines to use their service is because of such illegal activity– fraud.
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PaypalGuy says:

19 years ago

Very informative
Thank you
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NoyPinoy says:

19 years ago

Is there a paypal alternative for us in the Philippines?
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