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Anti money laundering laws forbid banks and facilitators from disclosing the true reason for freezing the account. If PayPal told them they'd literally be brea
by valdiorn 4y ago
Anti money laundering laws forbid banks and facilitators from disclosing the true reason for freezing the account.
If PayPal told them they'd literally be breaking federal law. So a money laundering flag seems most plausible given the silence.
- geoffeg 4y agoSo what's the resolution in that situation? Does Flipper Zero just throw their hands up and lose the money?
- rchaud 4y agoThey can go public, which is what they've done here and on Twitter. After that, they have to consider legal action, and it won't be cheap.
- m-p-3 4y agoPayPal should be forced to pay back legal fees when they lose..
- from 4y agoExcept financial companies are given civil immunity for this kind of thing if they file a SAR. It's effectively a license to steal. And I suspect it has less to do with any actual crime and more to do with the fact that some of the team is Russian.
- elzbardico 4y agoGotta love George W. Bush and his war on terror. A lot of the bullshit we deal nowadays with money and traveling started on his government
- slim 4y agowhy?
- FateOfNations 4y agoThat's only if the government instructed them to do it. If PayPal made the decision themselves, it's up to them.