Val: You might think there’s many and many kinds of people in this world but, Lady, there’s just two kinds of people, the ones that are bought and the buyers! No! – there’s one other kind…
Lady: What kind’s that?
Val: The kind that’s never been branded.
Lady: You will be, man.
Val: They got to catch me first.
Lady: Well, then, you better not settle down in this country.
Val: You know they’s a kind of bird that don’t have legs so it can’t light on nothing but has to stay all its life on its wings in the sky? That’s true. I seen one once, it had died and fallen to earth and it was light-blue coloured and its body was tiny as your little finger, that the truth, it had a body was tiny as your little finger and so light on the palm of your hand it didn’t weigh more than a feather, but its wings spread out this wide but they were transparent, the colour of the sky and you could see through them. That’s what they call protection colouring. Camouflage, they call it. You can’t tell those birds from the sky and that’s why the hawks don’t catch them, don’t see them up there in the high blue sky near the sun!

Lady: How about in grey weather?

Val: They fly so high in grey weather the goddam hawks would get dizzy. But those little birds, they don’t have no legs at all and they live their whole lives on the wing, and they sleep on the wind, that’s how they sleep at night, they just spread their wings and go to sleep on the wild like other birds fold their wings and go to sleep on a tree… -They sleep on the wind and -never light on this earth but one time when they die.

Lady: -I’d like to be one of those birds.

Val: So’d I like to be one of those birds; they’s lots of people would like to be one of those birds and never be- corrupted!

Lady: If one of those birds ever dies and falls on the ground and you happened to find it, I wish you would show it to me because I think maybe you just imagine there is a bird of that kind of existence. Because I don’t think nothing living has ever been that free, not even nearly. Show me one of them birds and I’ll say. Yes, God’s made one perfect creature!-I sure would give this mercantile store and every bit of stock in it to be that tiny bird the colour of the sky…for one night to sleep on the wind and – float! – around under th’-stars…

Perharps there’s a blog that say ‘Unlucky in the U.S.A.’?

“I am sad to acknowledge that Paypal actually did the right thing.”

Scrooge McDuck though will disagree, he will search every sort of way to make a profit, even dealing with scoundrels.

“Many Malaysian sell things on eBay, get payment through Paypal but did not send the goods after receiving payment.”

This sort of thing happened all over the world and commited not just by Malaysians.

Of course they’re smart enough to use fake identities, so scammers from Malaysia probably don’t claim to be Malaysians, plus they probably also got U.S.A Bank Accounts to deposit their scam money.

“We are being penalised because of them.”

The problem is… ‘them’ don’t necessary have to be Malaysians.

“Don’t forget Malaysia is still on the list of high fraud risk country.”

The list is subjective, since if it’s truthful, then the U.S.A. should be on it too.

I would say it’s more of a ‘list of financial whiz countries that we think we can’t control right now’.

Is that even legal?

Besides, the other central bank that Paypal must deal with is the Federal Reserve System, assuming that their base of financial transactions is in the U.S.A. with its laws.

“paypal told me can’t do it coz of country and bank rules and regulation. I called bank negara yet they said there is no limit to bring in money.”
“Now i do not know whose policy to have such withdrawal limitation. Our country or Paypal themselves who’s playing the who thing.”

Judging on the things I readed, it’s probably Paypal who set the limit.

Bank Negara most likely would want the appropriate documentation and a commission fee, plus the required requirements set by the ‘world / international’ ‘community’ so that Malaysia isn’t excluded by them. Of course unless the ‘world / international’ ‘community’ say no Paypal for Malaysians.

I think the reason Paypal set a withdraw limit, is this: If there’s no withdraw limit (either a low amount withdraw limit or no withdraw at all for an entire country), then accounts of companies like Paypal, Google, and so on can be quickly withdrawn up to the point of being overdraft, so they devise ways to delay the transfer of funds.

Malaysians and people like them (Chinese, Indians, Indonesians, etc) are quite smart and swift in making a profit (and that’s just by using the honest way, not the dishonest way), so if the withdrawers are many and the withdrawn amount is high, can you imagine on what will happen to the accounts of these companies?

And maybe also they were ordered by their superiors to not send money to certain regions (unless it’s ‘aids’ of course , maybe they’re affraid that Malaysians will become even richer then outcompete them?

Anyway. Visa and Mastercard themself regulary set a daily transaction limitation of U$500 on a single regular card account, so it’s most likely Visa and Mastercard who set the U$500 limit, NOT the country nor the bank.

“Anyhow, that lady from bank negara customer service centre does not even hear of Paypal and asked me to verify if Paypal is reliable.”

There, is Paypal even legal or trustworthy enough if the central bank of a country don’t even heard of it?

You might as well use hawala to transfer money, at least they’re way more honest, friendly, and reliable.

Of course this group of people don’t necessary have to be Malaysians.

Remember, expert scammers don’t use their real identities, let alone their real addresses.

Don’t be so harsh to condemn your own people even if it’s just a small group, especially if it’s for something that they don’t even do.

Should you side with the foreign PayPal or your own people?

Remember that even PayPal have a negative reputation of mistreating its users in the U.S.A. (sudden frozen accounts, unable to withdraw, unfair treatment that benefit the nasty buyers, etc).