Just got $180 sent to my Venmo

Click the link, baw. What could go wrong

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Just got $180 sent to my Venmo
From someone I don’t know and I have never opened a Venmo account. So what’s the catch?

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color me confused atm...
but if you don't have venmo, how did you know you received money there?

You can’t receive money through Venmo if you don’t have a Venmo account. Thought that would be obvious enough that this is a scam.

I accidentally sent someone $85 dollars once because the name was the exact same except for an underscore. They sent it back.

If you’ve never had Venmo than it’s a scam. Happened to a buddy of mine not too long ago.

He got a venmo request from his father in law so he venmoed him. His FIL calls him asking why he Venmoed him and he told him bc you requested it.

Turns out his FIL Venmo got hacked and was requesting money from people

My aunt sent me money via Venmo once. I didn’t have Venmo. She said i was in her contacts. So I made an acct and there was the money. Hardly used it since then.

I use Venmo to pay hookers and for coke. It's untraceable.

New scam. Even if you do have Venmo, never send back money that was "mistakenly" sent to you. It's an Indian or Russian that's backed into that person's account, sent you "their" money, and requests it back from you. Now you and the person who got hacked are out X dollars. Let the bank resolve it.

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I got an email saying that amount was put into my Venmo. There’s a link if I want to transfer it to my bank account.

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oh gotcha, that makes sense. I was thinking you got a notification from venmo.

I said it before and I'll say it again- two things I cannot stand are a liar and a thief.

glad you didn't click the link

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New scam. Even if you do have Venmo, never send back money that was "mistakenly" sent to you.

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If the money they sent you never left your venmo account. You can send it back. Pretty harmless.

And then you aren’t keeping someone’s money they accidentally sent you.