PayPal froze my account a few years ago for "suspicious activity". I still don't know what that activity was. Support gave me the same sort of runaround non-answers as described in this article. I finally got to talk to someone on the phone and had an exchange along these lines: me: "Is there any way I can continue to use paypal?" paypal: "You can open up a new bank account and then use that to register a different paypal account" me: "..."