This would be slightly less appalling if PayPal weren't so ban-happy towards people and organizations who weren't actually doing anything wrong. But as it stands, their false positive rate and false negative rate are both unacceptably high.
I've not heard that. From my current understanding, they generally don't evict a site when there is no risk of legal action. Maybe you're thinking of their reputation for being too strict on filtering TOR users?
I definitely wasn't thinking of the Tor thing. Maybe I was just overestimating how common it was. Looking again, the only sites I can find that Cloudflare evicted even though there was no risk of legal action were the Daily Stormer and 8chan.
I too had a similar situation with PayPal. When I filed a complaint they rejected it because the fake seller was able to produce shipping information. They send a letter (or empty package) to some address in your city but not your actual address so that the item shows as delivered. If you look closely you will see that your actual address is never shown in the details.
- the email to something more trustworthy, they use cong513489038@gmail.com and a295224870@gmail.com and others on different pages
- the domain in the privacy policy is linking to carvemyname.com but the title on hover is getphotopuzzle.com which both are not the actual site
- the title of the site is "BESTSHOP" and the domain is personablee.com
- On the footer, they did not even manage to write "Renfund Poilcy" correctly
- The site was first seen as a facebook ad, i can't verify if the ad is still running but i reported that one to facebook aswell
- The number they have on the bottom is from the "London School of Economics..."
- and many more issues
I've given up reporting obviously scammy (and sometimes blatantly illegal) adverts, links, and profiles, to facebook. The canned “doesn't break out community rules” responses or no response at all, confirms to me that a large part of the point of facebook is ripping people off and facebook know it! I've even stopped commenting on the adverts with a list of red flags to warn others, because that just makes facebook show you more of them (if you've engaged with one, you might be interested in seeing others!).
Because consumers are still waiting for their product and customer support says to wait, and then they refund not to get in trouble, but enough people don't think this far and when the moment comes to get a refund, the criminals will have withdrawn all the money already and PayPal will not do anything about it
Last November I did an impulse buy for a Breville coffee machine on a site. It was one of those "countdown" super sales. One hour later after the purchase I contacted the seller and he refunded me the paypal... fortunately. But the site definitely looked scammy. I notified Paypal and Shopify. It's so easy nowadays to create nice looking sites in a platform like Shopify that will give a veneer of legitimacy.
Anyway, that scammy site is gone. I wonder how many fell for this one. I should have checked how soon the site was taken down.