Stripe Freezes Legitimate Transactions Then Closes Accounts for the Resulting Risk Signals
A small hospitality business had legitimate guest payments blocked by Stripe's risk system, was refused an override in writing, and then had its account closed days later for the risk signals created by those very blocks. This illustrates a systemic payment-processor problem where automated risk tooling can trap merchants with no appeal path.
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