On: PayPal has restricted our account after we invoiced a key containing “ALEP”

[mytailorisrich]

More accurately, I suspect it's Aleppo and thus Syria, which is under sanctions by the US and European countries.

[Natsu → mytailorisrich]

Yeah, this is almost certainly some AML provision that has gone amuck, but they'd rather inconvenience you in a silly way to prove that they were "doing their job" than to get themselves shut down due to sanctions.

[fundad → mytailorisrich]

Aren’t there towns in the US and elsewhere named for towns in other countries? This xenophobia is an albatross.

[mytailorisrich → fundad]

The people of Aleppo, Pennsylvania must have a lot of fun.