Joking About Giving Money To ISIS Can Cost You Money (arstechnica.com)

Reader rudy_wayne writes: A person who was using Venmo, an app that allows people to send money to each other via their phones, sent $42 to repay a friend, and jokingly labelled it "ISIS Beer Fund". He immediately got an e-mail from Venmo questioning the purpose of the money. Although he tried to explain "The $42 was payment to a dear friend for two pitchers of Samuel Adams Boston Lager" he was informed "Due to OFAC regulations, we are not allowed to give the funds back to you or issue a refund." The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control is a 54-year-old institution, quietly working to keep money out of the hands of America's enemies.From the report, "It turns out -- shockingly -- this isn't the first time someone's Venmo transaction was cut off at the knees with a reference to subjects that are a matter of national security. Venmo won't explicitly say what words will trigger blockage, Gawker pointed out in October.

Comments

Re: Did you expect a different result? ~nt~

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Soap box
2. Ballot box
3. Jury box
4. Ammo box

Please use in order.

However, it does seem that the soap box still has some potency left. The ballot box seems to be broken as ever. Without #1, the jury box unfortunately will not help. Jurors need to begin refusing to convict people of victimless "crimes." Perhaps the fact that they do is evidence that the soap box is broken and in effect so is the jury box. As far as the ammo box, I guess I'm not sure. It seems futile at first glance, especially when I consider that the militias are just as big of a threat to me as big government thanks to anti-homosexual Jew-sponsored propaganda. (Granted, they've been at it nearly 2,000 years since their early cult invention--Christianity--torched the Library of Alexandria.)