![]() Other have come through common broadband providers like Charter, Cox, Comcast, Time Warner etc. To date 51 of 93 donations have come from addresses owned by, which appears to offer a VPN service. I've been capturing the remote IP address of the browser submitting the donation form and looking up the ownership.To date all 61 remain subscribed to our mailing list. Each e-mail we send out includes an Unsubscribe link and the headers to enable the "Unsubscribe" button in some mail readers. None of the e-mails has bounced due to a bad address. Each of the donors has received one or more e-mail messages. Per the organizations privacy policy, donors are added to the mailing list.I have followed-up by e-mail with all 61 donors (so far) to ask how their donation(s) came to be made, how they realized they were "unauthorized" and what changes we might make to the website to avoid the problem in the future.They did not arrive at the donation page from another website or from another page on our website. This means that the browser was launched directly to our donation page, either from a link in an e-mail or some other way. To date none of the sessions which generated disputed donations has had a referrer URL. As part of this investigation I have been capturing the "referrer" URL provided by browsers.That page is never viewed upon completion of the transaction for any of these disputed donations. The form we submit to PayPal includes a "return" URL to a Thank You page. Our webserver logs reveal that for these disputed donations our donation page is the ONLY page in the browser session.PayPal requires those signing up for regular donations to have a PayPal account, so those $1/week donors must have an account.Therefore each payment results from a conscious act. Upon clicking the Donate button the form is submitted to PayPal where the donor must either login or opt to pay with a credit card without a PayPal account. Some of the disputed donations had been set up as $1/week regular donations. ![]() If you wish to make a regular donation, you must select the donation frequency from a drop down. The page requires you to enter the donation amount and click a PayPal Donate button. ![]() All of these donations came through a donation page on our website. ![]() I've investigated donations from 61 different donors and found a number of curious things: I provide the website software and IT support for a non-profit which has also seen a spate of disputed donations under $5, mostly $1 & $2, beginning in Sept 2017. Should I refund the money of all the donors before they can claim a dispute? Anyone else know why this may be going on? Does someone want to **bleep** up my status with Paypal so I can no longer accept donations? Since several others of these donations happened immediately afterward, this is starting to look like a pattern. I wonder whether the individual's e mail address is even real. I did so, but the matter remains in dispute. Paypal told me to e mail the person saying that if they removed the dispute I could then refund the money. I had to call Paypal to notify them that I did not solicit the donation, did not bill the person for the donation, & know nothing about what happened. Because the matter is in dispute, I could not refund the funds to the donor. The first person who made such a donation then disputed the donation. So far I've received 5 of these donations, each supposedly from different individuals. I have never received a donation in this amount before via Paypal. In the past two weeks, I've received a series of $1 donations from individuals whose names are unfamiliar. I accept Paypal donations on behalf of a blog I own.
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