Tested this myself by sending some money to a friend with a note reading "tardigrade," and was told the payment is "pending."
> As part of our security measures, we review certain payments more closely to ensure our platform is being used properly and to minimize the potential risk for us and our customers. One of the payments that you sent is currently being reviewed. We are working to resolve this matter as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience.
For those of you, who like me, couldn't remember what a Tardigrade is, they're microscopic animals that live in water and are also known as Water Bears.
All I can think of is that this is some obscure word used to test functionality of their the piece of software that blocks payments based on a keywords contained within. I suppose someone could test out a transaction with obvious blocked keywords like "nazi terrorist child porn" and see if it behaves similarly, but I'm not going to try it.
It would be weird to block those as they are pejorative used only by people who oppose these things. Try "national socialist freedom fighter". I don't know what child porn is called by pedophiles.
JFC. It's 2020. Natural language processing is ubiquitous. And clowns like this are still denying service based on keyword matching. Get better programmers, Paypal.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 35.2 ms ] thread> As part of our security measures, we review certain payments more closely to ensure our platform is being used properly and to minimize the potential risk for us and our customers. One of the payments that you sent is currently being reviewed. We are working to resolve this matter as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
All I can think of is that this is some obscure word used to test functionality of their the piece of software that blocks payments based on a keywords contained within. I suppose someone could test out a transaction with obvious blocked keywords like "nazi terrorist child porn" and see if it behaves similarly, but I'm not going to try it.
There's a rabbit hole.
<SFW> https://www.wired.co.uk/article/child-sexual-abuse-keywords-...
Which is blockchain related.
https://documentation.tardigrade.io/concepts/decentralizatio...
Sounds plausible for me that some automated tool found a match and these transactions went for manual review.
[1] https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=7935