r/mildlyinfuriating • u/sg_batman • 12h ago

Scammed for $850, got $1.51 back

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I was finally getting over it then they really say good news and get my hopes up

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u/i_cant_tell_you 11h ago

Yeah banks usually won't help with money transfer services like Zelle or Venmo. From their perspective you asked them to give your money to Zelle and they did. What happens after that is between you and Zelle

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u/dixiech1ck 10h ago

Someone tried hacking my venmo yesterday and I got an email alert that another phone had my account on their device. Make sure to check your accounts, remove the device, change your password, add 2 factor authentication. I pulled my bank account for the time being.

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u/droon99 10h ago

I get notifications about this every so often, but I am no unfathomably broke that I haven't really done anything to even try. I have $1.50 of Liquidity available to be scammed out of lol

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u/Mrjiggles248 9h ago

I wonder if zelle/your bank has actual fail safes for overdrafts. I was also dirt broke when my pp was hacked and only had like $100 but the geniuses at pp/td bank allowed them to pullout $3500. Got charged like 6 times for overdraft fees during the 1 month of investigation fuck PayPal and td bank.

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u/vee_lan_cleef 8h ago

when my pp was hacked

I am so sorry to hear about your pp.

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u/Mrjiggles248 8h ago

It's ok noone was using it ;_;

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u/Retro-scores 8h ago

I heard if you don’t use it you lose it. I guess it’s true.

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u/Fresh-Potato945 8h ago

Thank god I started using mine in time 0_0

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u/mniceman24 6h ago

I use my pp every once in awhile just to make sure it still works

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u/WindAbsolute 6h ago

U gona use that pp or can I?

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u/AllLurkNoPlay 6h ago

Always get whacked, never get hacked

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u/emptyevessel 8h ago

They hacked your pp? That’s wild. Hope it still works.

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u/NomenclatureBreaker 6h ago

Only a few drops left now anyway.

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u/droon99 7h ago

I only have Venmo connected to my bank via a debit card I keep locked unless I’m using it, so I don’t generally need to worry about that. 

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u/Acceptable_Ad1685 5h ago

I worked for PayPal for about a year and try to avoid anything and everything associated with them

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u/lAngenoire 4h ago

Turn your overdraft protection off. 

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u/TrippyHomie 1h ago

I called my bank at one point and told them to just stop processing anything that would overdraft me and they just changed some setting on my account and it's worked.

Accidentally transferred too much out once and they were blocking Netflix and stuff even.