Can spammers cancel payment after procuring stamps?
It is paramount that CentMail participants pre-pay for stamps, and do not in effect steal stamps by defaulting on their financial commitments. To a large extent, this situation is avoidable through no-refund policies and enforcing waiting periods to confirm that donations are in fact processed and debited from users’ accounts. • Can spammers get stamps by donating to themselves? Users receive stamps in exchange for donations to charitable organizations of their choice. Here, care must be taken to guarantee that spammers are not simply funneling payments to a “charitable” organization which they ultimately control. To address this problem, we restrict donations to known reputable organizations which, for example, have been given a Charity Seal from the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance (bbb.org/charity) or granted non-profit tax status by the U.S. government. • Will legitimate users with extra stamps have incentive to sell them to spammers? For those who make charitable donati
