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This looks really bad for PayPal. "It did not have an account with the Giving Fund, even though its profile page there included its logo, mission statement and
by djrogers 10y ago
This looks really bad for PayPal.
"It did not have an account with the Giving Fund, even though its profile page there included its logo, mission statement and tax identification number."
TLDR; PayPal is soliciting donations for over a million charities, most of whom are unaware of this.
- MichaelBurge 10y agoIt sounds like they already have a team manually collecting information on charities. It wouldn't be so unreasonable for them to manually write a check to the actual charity after 6 months with no collection, which would take most of the meat away from the lawsuit. The free money would probably help their conversion rates with this trick, too.
- BHSPitMonkey 10y ago> It sounds like they already have a team manually collecting information on charities. Probably not. There are many online databases of registered charities already, and I wouldn't be surprised if new ones get scraped into them automatically. It seems likely that PayPal would have used an already existing dataset.