My original account got nuked like 13yrs ago, when I moved to a new address, I created a new stealth account, with a variation of my name, and for the longest time I was just using it only to make payments. Fairly recently I got a refund from a subscription and the company sent it to my Paypal, and they were asking for my social security number in order to unlock the money. At first I was hesitant to to do that, wondering if somehow it would link back to my old account. The other day I said screw it, and I gave them the info, and it worked. Then I ended up also being able to upgrade the account to a business account. So, I'm pretty happy that now I have a fully functioning PP account again, haha