Venmo flags transactions and suspends accounts based on "Cuba" footnote.
I charged my girlfriend on Venmo for going to a Cuban restaurant the other day... $53.66... yeah, she tips a lot because she used to work in the service industry.
In any case her account was suspended due to my note on the transaction, "Cuba". Wow, talk about economic sanctions. If you want to really annoy someone on Venmo just charge them for things that have economic sanctions I guess. "Venezuela" would be a good one as well. What about "Iraq", "Iran", or "Afghanistan"? Oh man, we could create so many red flags for them to deal with. How glorious.
My girlfriend's account was full on suspended until she gave them the address of the fucking business we went to and explained it was for Cuban food. Fucking unreal. Are they serious? They're serious.
Just another example of how aggressive AI and flagging is getting when it comes to the digital economy. Data is more regulated than ever and it will become exponentially worse over the next 10 years.
Bitcoin fixes this.
Maybe not Bitcoin directly, but certainly a coin under Bitcoin's protection. The cryptosphere is a living breathing entity without a lot of competition. There's so much work to be done there's little reason to compete. With all the best code being open-source it becomes even more difficult to compete. This is not a competition; these are communities that largely remain collaborative (RIP Tron DIAF).
Conclusion
I wouldn't even write the stupid note if VENMO DIDNT FORCE USERS TO DO IT.
Now they are sanctioning accounts based on a shadow-blacklist?
That's fucking crazy... and also totally expected, especially for 2020.
Suck it up buttercup, the best is yet to come.
I am guessing no woman named Isis is getting paid through Venmo.
Not until someone physically looks and the account and unbans the shadow-ban.
They do have good customer service... so these 'problems' get resolved near instantly.
Never used one of these apps. I am an app luddite in general :)
Meets the definition of centralized shit.
Wow. Venmo does realize there are alternatives. Maybe they don’t like their customers. Deleted the app myself a year ago and never looked back.
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I literally read something similar, except someone used the world bomb for cherry bomb(the car air better smeller thing) a few days ago. That was on zelle. So nothing is safe.
Try the Kimchi at the Pyongyang Restaurant next time you’re in Kathmandu.
On the other note, whats your venmo? I promise its not for anything bad.
Does this mean you'll never have to pay your girlfriend back for anything anymore?
WOw you commie, probably one of fidels underlings, plotting to take over the US over a plate of tamales
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I did have tamales recently.
that's insanity...
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lmao. I don't take those footnotes serious. I usually write the first word that pops into my head.
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No clue what Venmo is but I guess it is like a bank app. In my bank, I just put random words that pop into my head as my footnote; dickmeister, cuntopia, slime, quipped etc. Literally anything.
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Wow, that's pretty extreme... although I must confess I had similar experiences with PayPal, selling someone a small envelope of old collectible postage stamps from Cuba. The stamps were even from a time (1800s) when they were using US stamps overprinted "CUBA!"
Boom! Suddenly our large "commercial" PayPal account was locked up and blocked flow from three eBay accounts and two web sites, all over a $3 transaction that included the words "old Cuban stamps."
I really empathize... this shyte is insanely stupid!
=^..^=
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