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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

I've been sanctioned!

I just tried to buy something with PayPal and got the following message:

Error 3028. You have accessed your account from a sanctioned country. In accordance with international sanctions regulations, you are not authorised to access the PayPal system. For more information about your PayPal account status, contact complianceverifications@paypal.com.

Friends say American credit cards have had this problem for some time. Are British ones following suit? I'm not sure how any country was brought to its knees by preventing people shopping at Amazon, but the ways of international finance are apparently mysterious.

posted by A. M. at 7:22 PM  

4 Comments:

Hannah McDowall said...

Excellent! dispite the static 'location' of your account your personal location fundamentally corrupts it, you gotta give it to them, their clever. But hang on don't paypal know it is your fundamental human right to buy stuff off amazon, it's what separates us from the gorillas int it?

8:45 PM  
ET said...

Hannah, Atomic energy is our fundamental right, not Amazon purchases.

;-)

4:37 PM  
A. M. said...

And do gorillas have this sort of problem? I think not!

9:21 AM  
strudel said...

Dont' worry Mc Dowall, now my three ehr..llion readers will know.

http://www.strudelwahoo.com/black_sheep.htm

strudel

8:46 PM  

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