Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

Re:Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A p... by mschuster91 on Saturday December 13, 2025 @07:08AM (#46254008)

> You'd think so. Yet, the stories of PayPal locking up payouts to surprised people keep coming every year - and people still use them.

At least in Europe, PayPal is a regulated bank which means you can hand the case over to the authorities and they can and will help you out.

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Re:Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A p... by jkaplowitz on Saturday December 13, 2025 @07:20AM (#46254057)

They aren’t regulated as a bank in the US, where they have a much lighter-touch type of licensing.

Do the bank regulators in Europe typically help effectively when PayPal freezes an account?

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Re:Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A p... by mschuster91 on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:14AM (#46255087)

Yes they do. Someone got banned for Cuba sanctions [1], others I don't know the context [2], and for others media attention is enough [3].

[1] https://www.onlinehaendler-news.de/recht/urteile-entscheidun...

[2] https://www.sbs-legal.de/blog/update-sbs-legal-erwirkt-zwei-...

[3] https://www.test.de/Leserfall-Wenn-Paypal-ein-Kundenkonto-ei...

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Re:Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A p... by baq on Saturday December 13, 2025 @12:40PM (#46256318)

‘Member States shall ensure that, in the cases referred to in paragraph 4 …, after taking its decision, the credit institution immediately informs the consumer of the refusal and of the specific reason for that refusal, in writing and free of charge, unless such disclosure would be contrary to objectives of national security, public policy or Directive [2005/60]. […]’ https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

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