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senshisteph
September 4th, 2005, 08:50 AM
http://www.somethingawful.com

Comedy site Something Awful recently organised a Paypal donation drive for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina (they could not use their normal credit-card processing as their servers are located in New Orleans). Because there were over 3000 dollars an hour flooding in, Paypal suspected fraud and have suspended the account, which then stood at over twenty thousand dollars.

Paypal do not usually release funds on suspended accounts. They look set to keep the lot (on top of the 2.35% fees they charge anyway).

Please contact Paypal at this link
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_contact-general
to ask them to forward the funds to the Red Cross immediately, and reinstate the account so people can continue donating.

Thanks for your help

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GeneralZod
September 4th, 2005, 09:15 AM
This is the kind of news that I can see hitting slashdot fairly soon (there are some historic ties between SA and slashdot, and something involving PayPal and funds diverted away from the current hot-topic of Katrina would generate a lot of comments and page-hits). If this happens, PayPal will simply have to back down or face the kind of PR black-eye that is simply not worth $20k.

Edit:

Duh -I'm an idiot. It hit slashdot ages ago :/