{"id":94189,"date":"2016-06-09T08:03:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T06:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=94189"},"modified":"2016-06-09T08:11:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T06:11:58","slug":"this-is-how-a-twitch-troll-lost-r745000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/94189-this-is-how-a-twitch-troll-lost-r745000","title":{"rendered":"This is how a Twitch troll lost R745,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paypal has <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?depth=1&amp;hl=de&amp;rurl=translate.google.de&amp;sl=de&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http:\/\/www.neogaf.com\/forum\/showthread.php%3Ft%3D1227683\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>refused <\/strong><\/a>to refund over <strong>R745,000<\/strong> worth of cumulative donations, after the donator planned to reverse all of his payments.<\/p>\n<p>Twitch user iNexus_Ninja would make payments to various streamers of between <strong>$1,000 (R14,900)<\/strong> and <strong>$5,000 (R74,500)<\/strong>, in anattempt\u00a0to elicit extreme reactions from streamers.<\/p>\n<p>He then planned to issue charge-backs on all of the payments, so that the streamers would never actually receive the money.<\/p>\n<p>After complaints by the affected streamers, Paypal refused the refund, meaning all of the streamers were able to keep the donations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can watch him in action in the video below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zf5sBvfaI-Q\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Watch this developer play PC games on the PlayStation 4\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/92989-watch-this-developer-play-pc-games-on-the-playstation-4.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Watch this developer play PC games on the PlayStation 4<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/93797-the-biggest-movie-releases-in-south-africa-this-week-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The incredible overnight industry of backpack PCs\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93803-the-incredible-overnight-industry-of-backpack-pcs.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The incredible overnight industry of backpack PCs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paypal has refused to refund over R745,000 worth of cumulative donations after the donator planned to reverse all of his payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":94353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[19223,19221,2384,7579],"class_list":["post-94189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-features","tag-donation","tag-paypal","tag-troll","tag-twitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94357,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94189\/revisions\/94357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}