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smackfu on Feb 2, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Paypal's fraud prevention routine does it again

Yes, just look at Western Union for a service that has a long history whose reputation has been practically destroyed by scammers.

mst on Feb 2, 2011 [–]

I used WU's online service for a while. Then for no apparent reason it locked me out, and I've been able to figure out who to kick to get back in.

Possibly ironically, this has resulted in me falling back to my backup payment sending approach - paypal.

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