PayPal Freezes Hurricane Relief Account
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 03 September 2005
SomethingAwful's forum denizens, on the call of site admin Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, raised over $20,000 dollars to be donated to the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. This was done via a PayPal donation link, and PayPal has now frozen the account on a twofold basis: one, that there have been reports of "suspicious behavior" from the "buyers," and two, that no shipping records have been provided for the donations. Since so many users are asking for it, SomethingAweful has provided a link for those wishing to still make donations to the Red Cross in the meantime.
This isn't the first time Paypal has ripped off someone. Stories like this one happen on a regular basis, but this time, Paypal really hit the bull's eye. They might freeze some $10 accounts and keep the money and nobody else really cares, but not now. Who knows, maybe this is their business idea: transfer money and make profit by ripping off people now and then. Seems like the real scam is Paypal itself, not just those fake emails floating around.