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The payments won’t still go through - if you look at the links, PayPal is returning a big red error message to customers. It doesn’t look like PayPal is doing any kind of review, they are just blocking all transactions with Tardigrade in the associated text anywhere.

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Tried this with my german paypal account. Several 1cent payments were flagged, reviewed and then accepted. One 2€ payment was reviewed, flagged and hold back until I describe the details of this transaction.

How do you think a review process works? It's not instant. When you try to process the payment, the OFAC check fails, and it's flagged for manual review. Only option is to show the user an error

What is “manual review” here? The reviewer doesn’t have the ability to send the transaction through. It went to the circular file.

As a retailer who has been stung by this bullshit with PayPal many times in the past, I can tell you with absolute certainty that the payment doesn't go through ever, at all.

It isn't flagged and reviewed, it's just outright rejected with a cryptic error message indicating that someone, somewhere breached PayPal's terms of service. No money leaves the customer's account, no money arrives in the vendor's account; the process simply fails.

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