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    copied!<p><a href="https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/documentation-tools/api/getverifiedstatus-api-operation" rel="noreferrer">GetVerifiedStatus</a> should do the trick. You'll have to pass the email address and the name of the person and it will then return whether or not their account has been verified.</p> <p>If they don't have a PayPal account you'll get an error back that says "Cannot determine PayPal Account status."</p> <p>Here's a sample of the request and response I just ran on the sandbox for a verified PayPal account...</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;GetVerifiedStatusRequest xmlns="http://svcs.paypal.com/types/ap"&gt; &lt;requestEnvelope xmlns=""&gt; &lt;detailLevel&gt;ReturnAll&lt;/detailLevel&gt; &lt;errorLanguage&gt;en_US&lt;/errorLanguage&gt; &lt;/requestEnvelope&gt; &lt;emailAddress xmlns=""&gt;sandbo_1204199080_biz@angelleye.com&lt;/emailAddress&gt; &lt;matchCriteria xmlns=""&gt;NAME&lt;/matchCriteria&gt; &lt;firstName xmlns=""&gt;Drew&lt;/firstName&gt; &lt;lastName xmlns=""&gt;Angell&lt;/lastName&gt; &lt;/GetVerifiedStatusRequest&gt; &lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?&gt; &lt;ns2:GetVerifiedStatusResponse xmlns:ns2="http://svcs.paypal.com/types/aa"&gt; &lt;responseEnvelope&gt; &lt;timestamp&gt;2013-01-05T00:07:01.729-08:00&lt;/timestamp&gt; &lt;ack&gt;Success&lt;/ack&gt; &lt;correlationId&gt;3fecb3e1f2011&lt;/correlationId&gt; &lt;build&gt;4055066&lt;/build&gt; &lt;/responseEnvelope&gt; &lt;accountStatus&gt;VERIFIED&lt;/accountStatus&gt; &lt;userInfo&gt; &lt;emailAddress&gt;sandbo_1204199080_biz@angelleye.com&lt;/emailAddress&gt; &lt;accountType&gt;BUSINESS&lt;/accountType&gt; &lt;accountId&gt;E7BTGVXBFSUAU&lt;/accountId&gt; &lt;name&gt; &lt;salutation&gt;&lt;/salutation&gt; &lt;firstName&gt;Drew&lt;/firstName&gt; &lt;middleName&gt;&lt;/middleName&gt; &lt;lastName&gt;Angell&lt;/lastName&gt; &lt;suffix&gt;&lt;/suffix&gt; &lt;/name&gt; &lt;businessName&gt;Drew Angell's Test Store&lt;/businessName&gt; &lt;/userInfo&gt; &lt;/ns2:GetVerifiedStatusResponse&gt; </code></pre> <p>And here's a sample of a request and response where the PayPal account doesn't exist...</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;GetVerifiedStatusRequest xmlns="http://svcs.paypal.com/types/ap"&gt; &lt;requestEnvelope xmlns=""&gt; &lt;detailLevel&gt;ReturnAll&lt;/detailLevel&gt; &lt;errorLanguage&gt;en_US&lt;/errorLanguage&gt; &lt;/requestEnvelope&gt; &lt;emailAddress xmlns=""&gt;nodice@fail.com&lt;/emailAddress&gt; &lt;matchCriteria xmlns=""&gt;NAME&lt;/matchCriteria&gt; &lt;firstName xmlns=""&gt;Drew&lt;/firstName&gt; &lt;lastName xmlns=""&gt;Angell&lt;/lastName&gt; &lt;/GetVerifiedStatusRequest&gt; &lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?&gt; &lt;ns3:FaultMessage xmlns:ns3="http://svcs.paypal.com/types/common" xmlns:ns2="http://svcs.paypal.com/types/aa"&gt; &lt;responseEnvelope&gt; &lt;timestamp&gt;2013-01-05T00:08:28.581-08:00&lt;/timestamp&gt; &lt;ack&gt;Failure&lt;/ack&gt; &lt;correlationId&gt;43364ce704211&lt;/correlationId&gt; &lt;build&gt;4055066&lt;/build&gt; &lt;/responseEnvelope&gt; &lt;error&gt; &lt;errorId&gt;580023&lt;/errorId&gt; &lt;domain&gt;PLATFORM&lt;/domain&gt; &lt;subdomain&gt;Application&lt;/subdomain&gt; &lt;severity&gt;Error&lt;/severity&gt; &lt;category&gt;Application&lt;/category&gt; &lt;message&gt;Cannot determine PayPal Account status&lt;/message&gt; &lt;/error&gt; &lt;/ns3:FaultMessage&gt; </code></pre>
 

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