Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims

Re:Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims by pb7 on Friday October 07, 2022 @03:48PM (#33126068)

PayPal has a long shiny history of screwing people over and Venmo is now not only owned by PayPal but the app is hot garbage and gets worse with every update (probably due to the aforementioned ownership).

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Re:Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims by Maursault on Friday October 07, 2022 @06:26PM (#33127607)

I use PayPal, not as heavily as I have in the past, but I have been scammed by about a dozen sellers, and in all cases, PayPal refunded my money. I've never heard of PayPal screwing over customers, only that it being owned by eBay is annoying because eBay gets two sets of fees on payments for sellers.

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Re:Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims by pb7 on Friday October 07, 2022 @09:04PM (#33128856)

I don't care enough to find the biggest stories over the last 15+ years but here are two articles from January 2022 referencing a class action lawsuit over freezing of funds without explanation:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/paypal-stole-use...

https://www.engadget.com/paypal-lawsuit-freezing-customer-ac...

And to be clear, this is not an isolated event.

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Re:Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims by Ekaros on Saturday October 08, 2022 @04:47AM (#33130818)

Paypal is entirely reasonable as buyer. But I would never ever use it to receive money. Or hold balance there.

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