Paypal - screening WTF ?

[Pip1968]

Has anyone come across this before? I made a payment on ebay as usual but it has been withheld and is now 'pending'. Their excuse is as follows:

..."we identified activity that may be in
violation of United States regulations administered by the Department of
the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)"

They now want a photo ID and proof of address . Now I could understand if I was buying a kilo of cocaine or a pressure cooker bomb but it is just a set of spanners from a seller in the UK.

So has anyone else been subjected to 'Big Brother' America interfering in their sh@t.

I hate Paypal, it is always an epic. Why doesn't anyone just take a bank transfer or credit card payment anymore.

Any therapy/help appreciated.

Pip