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by ig1 5423 days ago
It's not a case of black-and-white innocent-or-not, an account has a certain level of risk associated with it and Paypal has to manage that.

Paypal didn't think they were fraudsters when they suspended their account, they thought they were high-risk. They unsuspended the account when the event organizer agreed to some risk mitigation measures (allowing Paypal to hold the money for the length of the creditcard chargeback period to let Paypal protect themselves).