PayPal freezes Canadian media company's account over story about Syrian family
Found on CBC on Monday, 13 February 2017
Reminder publisher Valerie Durnin said when she tried to pay the $242.95 for the paper's entries, PayPal flagged the payment as possibly not in compliance with its "acceptable use policy," which she said she hadn't been able to track down. PayPal did promise to follow up within 72 hours of its investigation, which it never did.
"You may be buying or selling goods or services that are regulated or prohibited by the U.S. government," PayPal said in an email to News Media Canada.
Within hours of The Canadian Press asking about the situation on Friday, the account was unfrozen.
Another day, another PayPal failure. Too bad for PayPal that the media joined the game and dragged them into the light; seems there was no other basis for freezing the account than to hold onto the money.