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It's sad when a whole country becomes a racial slur in some other country. But I guess for every person who has a valid reason to use the word, there are a thousand trolls trying to use the country name as a loophole. So I'm not surprised if customer service thinks you're filing a troll bug report.

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That's what I was thinking: it's an overly aggressive attempt at blocking the n-word.

Tried a payment with the word "Nigeria" in it and that went through successfully.

Would it make sense to only censor the word if it's lower case?

I mean I still see no reason why a transaction shouldn't go through even if it had the word spelled properly. Black people don't have a problem using it (deservedly so!) and I there are contexts where it is somewhat acceptable to use it if only to refer to (for instance) a racist character in a novel.

Can't edit now, but I just want to say that I've reconsidered this point of view and now find it mildly racist and insensitive. Apologies if anyone was hurt by this.

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