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Re:To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat by cheapsteak on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:31PM (#18943302)
I can corroborate that we were unable to activate a wechat account for my (western) friend. Not payments, just a normal chat account.

Upon registration, Wechat asked him to get someone to confirm/sponsor his account. I tried to, and was told that my account couldn't verify other accounts because my account was suspicious.

I then solicited my spouse's help. She managed to go through the process of verifying his account, but when I told my friend to try logging in again, he said he was still marked as "suspicious" and wasn't able to log in

Edit: this was recent (last week)

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Re:To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat by naner on Friday January 18, 2019 @07:41PM (#18944480)
Of course he was marked as suspicious: he previously tried to get a suspicious person to sponsor him. :)
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Re:To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat by joe_super0 on Saturday January 19, 2019 @12:43AM (#18945541)
By suspicious do you mean, identity fraud related issue or your social credit score was not high enough?
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