{"id":167743,"date":"2016-06-08T08:55:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T06:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=167743"},"modified":"2016-06-08T08:57:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T06:57:23","slug":"internet-troll-loses-50000-in-prank-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/167743-internet-troll-loses-50000-in-prank-gone-wrong.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet troll loses $50,000 in prank gone wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Internet troll who donated $50,000 to Twitch streamers and a charity stream failed to get the money\u00a0refunded, which leaves him seriously out of pocket.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubergizmo.com\/2016\/06\/paypal-denies-50k-twitch-troll\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ubergizmo reported<\/strong><\/a> that the troll, iNexus_Ninja, has been donating large amounts of money to Twitch streamers with the aim of capturing their positive reactions live.<\/p>\n<p>He would then get the charges reversed through Paypal, which is a common practice among online trolls.<\/p>\n<p>However, Paypal denied his request to reverse the charges, which means that iNexus_Ninja is now $50,000 out of pocket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently the streamers decided to fight against his request for a refund and it looks like they won, much to the dismay of said troll,\u201d said Ubergizmo.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zf5sBvfaI-Q\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on trolls<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/154622-twitter-wants-to-fight-trolling.html\"><strong>Twitter wants to fight trolling<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/149403-there-is-now-insurance-for-being-trolled-online.html\"><strong>There is now insurance for being trolled online<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Internet troll who donated $50,000 to Twitch streamers failed to get the money refunded, which leaves him seriously out of pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":149431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,37555,21051],"class_list":["post-167743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-internet-troll","tag-twitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167775,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167743\/revisions\/167775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}