PayPal API - Verify that an account is valid / exists / verified

Question

Has anyone been able to verify the validity of a PayPal account only by the email address?

AdaptiveAccounts GetVerifiedStatus (in PayPal\'s own words) is only for use by

Answer 1

You can issue a request to the Pay API trying to set up a chained payment with the email to be tested as a secondary receiver. Since chained payments don't accept payments to receivers that do not have an account, the API will return an error when the input email does not correspond to a PayPal account (otherwise it will return a paykey, that you'll just throw away).