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• Will PayPal fine you $2500 for trading artistic nudes?

  Posted on November 21, 2022 at 02:43 CST by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  PayPal, the giant online payment-processing service based in San Jose, California, put itself in hot water last month by releasing, and then disavowing, a document that threatened to deduct $2500 or more from PayPal users’ financial accounts if any of their transactions “appear to depict nudity” or “promote misinformation.”

  Setting aside that vague and confusing language for a moment, PayPal’s checkered history with regulators is worth recalling. For instance, the company was recently subjected to a number of actions.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.47.0, 2022-11-21).

  Public Defender Financial, Newsletters, PayPal, safety, Terms of Service

• New “419” scam involves PayPal and Western Union

  Posted on March 22, 2012 at 22:41 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  … and they don’t care one little bit…

  Windows Secrets Newsletter Top Story.

  Other Nigerian scam, PayPal, Western Union

• PayPal persists in sending phishing-friendly emails

  Posted on June 20, 2011 at 21:38 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I’m just fed up with PayPal’s email spamming techniques.

  Somebody there should get a clue.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Other Clueless, PayPal