The worst part about these type of cases is not being able to get a straight answer. There is a whole subset of big tech that has taken the "you must be a fraudster therefore we can't unfuck the situation" approach to customer support. It's an arms race with fraudsters that eventually sucks in legitimate businesses.
I hate seeing comments like this because Stripe’s hands are tied here. Anytime a bank or payment processor has frozen or shut down an account and you’re getting stonewalled it’s almost guaranteed to be an AML related issue and it’s against the law for them to tip a customer off that their account is being or might be investigated for suspicious activity. This isn’t Stripe deciding that you’re a fraudster and so you’r…
I do some payments that are ridiculously suspect but legal.
I have never been completely blackholed and given robot responses, any time a problem comes up.
Stripe is lower margin than other banks/payment providers, so they don't look very hard.
They have a very strong incentive to throw away troublesome customers, which they do.
I don't think it's right to say Stripe's "hands are tied".
They could spend more to identify false positives, but they don't.
If I used Stripe for all of my transactions I would be blocked. I know this because I have 100% confirmed this from an inside source at Stripe and at a countries central bank.
Yet somehow I have and continue to maintain accounts with other banks without breaking the law.