You can go back to forum posts from >10 years ago and paypal locking accounts with funds in it was a common problem even back then. Even if you had 50k$ in your

You can go back to forum posts from >10 years ago and paypal locking accounts with funds in it was a common problem even back then. Even if you had 50k$ in your account, they would reply to you with a one liner saying they can't discuss the ban. The only to get your cash back was to sue them. A lot of people were speculating that they were intentionally locking accounts with the intention of stealing the funds.