> Financial regulations require any transaction that is "suspicious" in any way of having links to terrorism financing or money laundering be reviewed, and ther

> Financial regulations require any transaction that is "suspicious" in any way of having links to terrorism financing or money laundering be reviewed, and there are large and personal penalties for not doing so. Unfortunately, PayPal's advanced KYC and AML verification process is hilariously incompetent and rigid. Some months ago, they asked me to provide charity information for my personal account, and subsequently limited my receiving/sending privileges. Phone calls to them trying to sort this out have always ended up at some call centre in the Philippines, where the agents can only tell their users that the account limitation is "for their safety". That account of mine is still limited. They've also limited the personal account of a friend of mine (who was interestingly enough ex-PayPal) before, also asking for charity information.