After Stripe and Advent abandon a roughly $53 billion bid for PayPal, the company sends the buyers a payment request for itself. The checkout page asks what the money is for, opens a valuation dispute, and places the entire firm in a spinning fraud review while bankers upload proof of ownership one employee at a time. The deal finally clears as a $0 test transaction, leaving PayPal responsible for its own processing fee.
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