[lamontcg]

Yep.

Search below for response from 'caitb' who works at Stripe:

> I work at Stripe, and we're already in touch with OP.

> We don’t comment on specific user cases for privacy reasons. As a reminder, facts presented in a public forum can often be misleading or untrue.

Along with:

> We were in touch with OP over email before this post was made.

> We know that confirming we review cases posted here provides an incentive for bad actors to post.

> We wish that weren’t the case–but we do pay attention to both internal case reviews and to any public complaints where users are having a bad day (or, in some cases, profess to be having a bad day).

And the resolution posted by OP below was:

> UPDATE : Stripe has just closed our account without further notice and refunded the whole balance.

So, this story is that Stripe just protected a whole bunch of people paying around $100 for scams worth up to $250k or so.

As an exercise everyone should spend some time on r/tifu, r/ChoosingBeggars, r/antiwork, etc and play spot-the-fakes, particularly when some story that hits the front page of reddit sounds very appealing to your biases.

[jacquesm]

Indeed. Another angle to consider: there are a 1001 ways in which people scam other people even if they have a website and it all looks legit to you that doesn't mean it isn't a scam or a way to process gambling or porn charges or to launder money. There are so many ways to do this that I know of because I come across them professionally from time to time and then there are untold ways that I don't know of. So without access to all of the information that Stripe has at their disposal it is impossible to know what's going on even if it looks legit. And Stripe is always going to err on the side of caution simply because no matter how big your business and how important it is to you their reputation, merchant account status and legal exposure is worth infinitely more to them.