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It's probably got less to do with PayPal purposely stealing from their customers, and more to do with PayPal's software freezing accounts of innocent people, an

It's probably got less to do with PayPal purposely stealing from their customers, and more to do with PayPal's software freezing accounts of innocent people, and PayPal not being willing to allocate the resources necessary to prevent this theft.

giancarlostoro 7y ago
My thing is... How is it that it is now paypals property? How is that legal? I sure hope someone who lost 100 grand sues them for their money back plus lost income due to account freeze. We need to see more legal outcry over what basically ammounts to theft. I may even figure you could sue for defamation depending on the why of your account being frozen. If they claim anything negative. Plus it gives your entire enterprise a bad name without reason.
- carapace 7y ago
  PayPal owes me $200. I had received ~$200 from friends to start a video game project. They froze my account. I did everything they said to do to get it unfrozen: sent photocopies of my ID, etc. Still frozen. No human interaction. Two years later I get a letter from the state comptroller saying that PayPal had been trying to reach me to give me my money back, and if I wanted it to call a certain 800 number (of PayPal's, not the state), otherwise it would revert to the state. I called the number and they asked me, "Do you want to be mailed a check, or can we just credit your PayPal account?" Since the account was still frozen (as far as I know, I haven't tried to log in to it in years) I said send me the check. That was the last I ever heard about it. No check was forthcoming.
  - giancarlostoro 7y ago
    Wonder what would happen if you send a letter back to the current state comptroller. That sounds pretty awful, but wow, it eventually just magically goes to the state somehow. That sounds just as odd as it disappearing, especially since it's been "frozen" for years, one could say gaining interest for money that's not their own.
    - freeone3000 7y ago
      In Texas, at least, "unclaimed property" goes to the state comptroller, who holds it on behalf of the person for some years in case they claim it. My dealings with them were fairly straightforward (but weirdly insecure?) to reclaim a security deposit I had forgotten about.

giancarlostoro 7y ago

My thing is... How is it that it is now paypals property? How is that legal? I sure hope someone who lost 100 grand sues them for their money back plus lost income due to account freeze. We need to see more legal outcry over what basically ammounts to theft. I may even figure you could sue for defamation depending on the why of your account being frozen. If they claim anything negative. Plus it gives your entire enterprise a bad name without reason.

carapace 7y ago
PayPal owes me $200. I had received ~$200 from friends to start a video game project. They froze my account. I did everything they said to do to get it unfrozen: sent photocopies of my ID, etc. Still frozen. No human interaction. Two years later I get a letter from the state comptroller saying that PayPal had been trying to reach me to give me my money back, and if I wanted it to call a certain 800 number (of PayPal's, not the state), otherwise it would revert to the state. I called the number and they asked me, "Do you want to be mailed a check, or can we just credit your PayPal account?" Since the account was still frozen (as far as I know, I haven't tried to log in to it in years) I said send me the check. That was the last I ever heard about it. No check was forthcoming.
- giancarlostoro 7y ago
  Wonder what would happen if you send a letter back to the current state comptroller. That sounds pretty awful, but wow, it eventually just magically goes to the state somehow. That sounds just as odd as it disappearing, especially since it's been "frozen" for years, one could say gaining interest for money that's not their own.
  - freeone3000 7y ago
    In Texas, at least, "unclaimed property" goes to the state comptroller, who holds it on behalf of the person for some years in case they claim it. My dealings with them were fairly straightforward (but weirdly insecure?) to reclaim a security deposit I had forgotten about.