PayPal Freezes Hurricane Relief Account

logan5 writes "SomethingAwful's forum denizens, on the call of site admin Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, raised over $20,000 dollars to be donated to the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. This was done via a PayPal donation link, and PayPal has now frozen the account on a twofold basis: one, that there have been reports of "suspicious behavior" from the "buyers," and two, that no shipping records have been provided for the donations." Since so many users are asking for it, SomethingAwful has provided a link for those wishing to still make donations to the Red Cross in the meantime.

Comments

Re:i hate paypal

[silverkniveshotmail.]

oh fuck you.
They could at least do some form of investigation. something, anything. instead of just pulling the plug.
Oh, and P.S. the "enter" key is useful.

Re:Katrina can eat me

[Proc6]

Since when did it cost money to walk?

"Ohh boo hoo, I'm too poor, I don't have a car, but I can afford a cell phone. I am "above" walking, I will not even try to go to the SuperDome or a shelter, I will just stay with my materialistic goods and drown or wait for someone to rescue me." give me a break. There is no excuse to be standing on the roof of your house right now waiting for a boat to pick you up unless you have no friends, no family and are paralyzed from the neck down.

Now which point specifically would you like to call untrue? The one about charities somehow misapropriating funds into peoples personal bank accounts? See 9/11 for some sweet examples of that. Idiot politicians grandstanding with comments like "This is our Tsunami!", yeah, good call dickhead. What like 210,000+ died in the Indonesian tsunami, how many have died to Katrina? And how many of those didn't have to? It's like saying "Yeah, sorry your family all died in a plane crash, but my Gameboy batteries stopped working, so that's "my plane crash".

Or did you want to tell me that there isn't mad looting going on? Or maybe all you disagree on is the celebrities. You're right, I am sure Britney Spears has genuine distress over the Katrina victims. In fact she's eating a third helping of Rocky Road while she wipes away her tears as we speak. No wait, you meant that there AREN'T capitalist pigs trying to make a fast buck off this... Ah yes, you mean like the $6 gallons of gas that aren't happening. If your heart keeps bleeding at its current rate, you'll need a transfusion before you're done reading this comment.

Re:PayPal isn't a bank, so it's not perfectly safe

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

If you're that stupud, what are you doing on slashdot? This is news for Nerds and you seem to be a Luser who doesn't know how to use his Compaq.