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PayPal on the take?

genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
edited February 2017 in General Banter

‘We have no idea where the money is going,’ says an attorney bringing the suit against PayPal....
Charitable donations made through PayPal’s Giving Fund platform may never reach their intended recipients, a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in Chicago has alleged.
PayPal’s charitable platform, which the company says raised more than $7bn in 2016, claims to allow individuals to give directly to “over a million charities”. But only a fraction of those charities actually receive the donations, the lawsuit alleges, because they aren’t registered with PayPal.

Link to complete Guardian article (link button doesn't work here at present): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/28/paypal-charity-donations-giving-fund-lawsuit

Comments

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    uh-oh......

  • karastikarasti Breathing Minnesota Moderator

    That's nuts. They don't tell them "There are funds waiting, you need to register to receive them" but give them to "someone else" if that isn't done? WTH?

  • TiggerTigger Toronto, Canada Veteran
    edited March 2017

    Just another loophole created by someone greedy. Greed is so ugly!

  • DakiniDakini Veteran

    Western Union was sued about 10 years ago, because quite a few clients said the money they'd wired never reached its destination. I only had that problem once, when wiring money through them to Russia, haha--surprise, surprise! But there was a class-action lawsuit; apparently there was a large number of people complaining.

  • TiggerTigger Toronto, Canada Veteran
    edited March 2017

    I wonder if that money you sent to Russia went to help.....you know whose election....he shall remain nameless :p

    I kid!

    lobster
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