Update on Suspicious Donations
November 4, 2007 – 7:56 pmEarlier I wrote that I was receiving many small, suspicious donations. I notified PayPal about the issue, but unfortunately I only got a form-letter response back (and it took a week to get it). I refunded every single suspicious donation, and was getting worried that the refunding would then flag me as some participant. So I started including comments in the refunds to notify the individual that I had reported the activity to PayPal and to STOP IT. There was no “please” or politeness in my wording, but there were also no accusations or anything.
Finally, today I got an e-mail directly from the individual.
Subject: Sorry
Definitely no more such donations.
Hopefully that means it is done. I don’t know if the individual was actually trying to send me small donations and did not understand that PayPal takes 100% until you reach about 35 cents, or if it was an attempt at gaming or fraudulent activity. As long as this is the end of it, I consider this case to be closed.
2 Responses to “Update on Suspicious Donations”
Hooray, your little “financial problem regarding donations” is solved. Hopefully! Also, I notice you’ve changed the theme back to normal. thank you. This default wordpress theme looks much better than that new one you tried out.
By Bebb on Nov 5, 2007
This is good. Hopefully whoever is doing it will really not do it again (yes, I read the “sorry” reply they sent). Also, thanks for bringing back the Wordpress default theme.
By Mike on Nov 5, 2007