Paypal foils troll’s plan to take back $50,000 in donations from Twitch

Most people who got a donation of $11,500 would be absolutely ecstatic and start spending some of that money relatively quickly. And that’s what 18-year-old Anthony Archer was counting on, right before he planned to pull the rug out from under them.

The Australian made donations totaling about $50,000 to four Twitch users, according to the Next Web. Twitch is a social platform for gamers, where people can watch others play video games through streams.

People can donate money to their favorite gamers, but sizable donations like Archer’s are not common.

But ignoring the cliche, “If something is too good to be true, it probably is,” the beneficiaries of Archer’s donation took the money and started spending it. Archer, under the username iNexus_Ninja, planned to take back the money through Paypal after 30 days, leaving the users with large bills and without the money to pay for it.

Paypal wasn’t on board for that plan and — lucky for the users — refused to refund his money. The pay service pointed him to its terms of service on what is eligible for a charge back.

A Reddit user linked to Archer’s Twitter account, saying the teen had said in a now-deleted tweet that he used his parents credit cards to make the donations. No word yet on any reports of parents grounding their son for eternity in Australia.

This story was originally published June 9, 2016 at 3:21 PM with the headline "Paypal foils troll’s plan to take back $50,000 in donations from Twitch."