QUOTE(kerensky @ Nov 28 2022, 04:59 PM)

QUOTE(mepstein @ Nov 27 2022, 08:37 PM)

Over on pelican, the scam du jour is for a scammer to follow a for sale thread and contact the buyer through a pm, asking for payment. A buyer just got scammed over $2k because he sent the payment to the wrong person. Send it zelle or regular venmo and you are screwed.
Anyone I've had any contact with in banking/finance/etc. has uniformly said don't ever use Venmo or Zelle with anyone you aren't 100% sure of. And basically don't every use CashApp for any reason ever ever ever didIsayEverIMeantEVER.
my wife (we) got scammed. She received a text on her phone, "Zelle- did you authorize a payment of $250.00?"......Wife replied "No", Bam received another text from the real Zelle stating that a payment has been made. she logged into the bank acct online.....scammers took $3000.00.
it was our business account and we got the money back from the bank, my question to our banker was, "can't you all see where the money went?" has to go into another bank account? got some long winded answer. anyway........... My lesson was, don't reply to texts that you don't recognize. regardless of who they say the are. so, no more zelle, venmo for us.
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