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by macintux 2098 days ago
I did that with PayPal a couple of years ago and the transaction was flagged for review.
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Not long ago there was a similar discussion here because

> PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24450828

And one of the top comments said:

> PayPal gets a list of banned strings from the Office of Foreign Asset controls. If any match those strings it's flagged for a review.