Nigeria Not in the payment zone

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  9jaamebor · Member · Dec 13, 2013 at 2:36 pm

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  why cant I access Nigeria in the payment zone?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 13, 2013 at 7:56 pm

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  PayPal has blocked your country and there’s nothing we can do about that. Sadly, due to the bad behaviors of legions of spammers and scammers see: PayPal, will not place your country on the approved list. See for example Nigerian scams, also called 419 scams, are a type of fraud and one of the most common types of confidence trick. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_scam

  Below are the only accepted means of payment.

  WordPress.com uses PayPal as the payment processor, and as such, can only accept payment from countries they support: https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/

  If for whatever reason, they have chosen to block payment from your country, you will not be able to purchase an upgrade here unless you have a source of payment outside of your country.

  In addition to major credit cards Mastercard, VISA, American Express, Discover, and PayPal https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/ WordPress.com can accept echecks and some debit cards.

  The debit card must have a VISA or Mastercard symbol on it, and should work just like a credit card when selecting the VISA or Mastercard option on the payment form, even though it’s a debit card.

  More about echecks here:
  https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/helpcenter/article/?solutionId=13054&topicID=11500008&m=TCI

  WordPress.com also accept Bitcoin for payment of certain upgrades ( bitcoin cannot be used for domain and premium theme purchases) – you can learn more here: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/pay-another-way-bitcoin/

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  deewhy4ril · Member · Jan 9, 2014 at 12:44 am

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  but Nigeria is not the only country with fraud.. Even the United States has higher fraud incidences compared to Nigeria and they are not excluded from the list. This is complete RACISM.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 9, 2014 at 12:47 am

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  It`s not racism but cling to that if you want.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 9, 2014 at 12:47 am

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  If for whatever reason, they have chosen to block payment from your country, you will not be able to purchase an upgrade here unless you have a source of payment outside of your country.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 9, 2014 at 1:12 am

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  No, Nigeria has a vastly higher rate of scams per capita than the US does. I mean, if you exclude the Republican party.