You Accidentally Sent $149 to a Stranger on Venmo? Good Luck Getting It Back

You Accidentally Sent $149 to a Stranger on Venmo? Good Luck Getting It Back - WSJ

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"Nick Abouzeid, a 21-year-old in San Francisco who works at a tech startup, received an unexpected $149 from a stranger along with the message ‘for a wonderful evening.’ Two minutes later, he got another message: ‘I again made a mistake (((.’

He decided to investigate. (The app allows users to view the transaction history of others, depending on their privacy settings.) The account, he found, was brand new. He ran the user’s profile picture through Google’s reverse image search engine and saw it used in other places. He also saw the user sent money to another person ‘for lesbian game,’ and a minute later wrote to that person: ‘wrong person, please refund.’"

From "You Accidentally Sent $149 to a Stranger on Venmo? Good Luck Getting It Back - WSJ".

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