Paypal Payments are legit if you are a regular user. If you are willing to receive a payment from your client via newly opened Paypal, better advice would start receiving minimum payments let's say within $250 to $300 for a few 5-6 transactions, and gradually increase your limits.
If you opened a new PayPal ID and receive payment of more than $1000 or even more, it's a Bang for sure. Paypal will put a restriction or a permanent Ban on your account and ask you to wait till 180 days or even more days. Till that time they will constantly check your account to see whether the sender has given a withdrawal request for your fund or not. In these legitimate situations, PayPal will allow you to withdraw the held funds via either bank transfer or via cheque and permanently block your account.
Of course, they put restrictions, not only on PayPal, even on many people as in Stripe, or your local payment gateway providers too!
I had a great experience in holding funds for Paypal or Stripe or even some local gateways.. So advice would be to use the PayPal limits slowly and gradually increasing your receiving amounts from the sender and split payments with a constant delay of the period also works..
And there is no other way or alternate velocity to get rid of the situation. Hope this helps!.
