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> fake t-shirts For a while a popular way around PayPal's restrictions was for sites selling services that were in violation of PayPal's ToS to go through an i
by pluma 10y ago
> fake t-shirts
For a while a popular way around PayPal's restrictions was for sites selling services that were in violation of PayPal's ToS to go through an intermediary site for donations/credits. So you would buy a crappy e-book for $20 or so, or maybe a couple of mp3s for $5 each and forward the receipt to have the equivalent credits added to your account.
Pretty clever as the ecommerce sites themselves had full plausible deniability -- there was no obvious link between the PayPal merchants and the (most likely anonymous) people running the service.