The popular site: Something Awful.com raised nearly $28,000 in funds (using PayPal as the middleman) from its members to use for the diaster relief from Hurricane Katrina. That's all well and good, but after the donations started to roll in, PayPal froze the cash in the account stating:
Unable to take credit card payments directly due to his site being down, Kyanka set up a PayPal account specifically to handle the effort. Donations poured in at a rate of almost $3,900 per hour - an astounding number from any perspective. That is, until PayPal shut down Something Awful's donation account late Saturday evening. Because PayPal's customer support was closed for the night, Kyanka was unable to discover why $27,695.41 in Red Cross relief funds were locked. PayPal's automated system explained that it had received "more than one report of suspicious behavior from your buyers."
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