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Venmo is a popular app that is used to process financial transactions so that people can easily access funds online. Venmos reputation is littered with hundreds upon thousands of complaints about they're misleading policies and theft of funds for no reason. Venmo has stolen $1,400 from me that... View More

answered on Feb 29, 2020
Contact an attorney immediately and look into filing suit against Venmo.
If you have an a baking account active for over a year and then you apply for a loan at US Bank they say they’re from then they mobile deposit thousand dollar check and then come to find out it’s fake and the bank gave me 30 days to close my banking account

answered on Aug 24, 2019
Rather than explaining what happened to you and why, here is the bottom line: In modern-day America if anyone does anything at all to accept, cash or deposit checks--or wire transfers--that turn out to be fraudulent the receiving bank WILL either freeze the account and all money remaining in... View More
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answered on Jul 2, 2019
Although you did not ask the most important question, I will answer it anyway.
Doing what you admit you are doing may be looked at by some people who may be reading this as money laundering or some other federal crime involving the national banking system.
Got sued by Zwicker & Assoc via Discover Bank Credit Card in January 2017. Tried to work things out between now and then and I just could never afford the payments. Now when I go to search FOR the case by my case # on the website it's like it never existed. What does this mean? Did they... View More

answered on Jan 27, 2019
Go to the courthouse, have them pull the file and you will be able to see if they have s judgment and is so, what collection efforts are underway against you. You may want to hire a lawyer to help you try and settle the case.
We wrote a check on march 9th at a car lot in Ky for a down payment that the manager agreed to hold until we got our tax refund. Their finance department wasnt told to hold the check and it went to the bank over that weekend and was subsequently returned as non sufficient funds, they were supposed... View More

answered on May 1, 2018
The Lexington attorney is correct. If they agreed to hold it ( knowing the funds weren’t there and wouldn’t be there until later), it is a civil matter as you cannot defraud one who accepts a check knowing that the funds are not contemporaneously there.
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