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Grrr, does anyone use Venmo?
I periodically do some website updates for a local artist and he'll usually send me a check. So he was late last time, forgot, getting older, so I sent him a reminder and he asked if I had Venmo for an instant payment. So I created an account and he sent it. That was 6/23, on 6/25 I get an email from Venmo saying: "Your Venmo account has been frozen due to recent activity that appears to be a violation of our User Agreement". It requested photos of a government issued ID to verify the account. Since then I've submitted photos of driver's license, later my passport, have replied several times requesting a status update and even submitted a help request on their site. Not one reply as of yet and account still frozen. Bloody frustrating they are!
So today I filed a complaint with reportfraud.ftc.gov and my local county consumer protection agency. The latter has helped me resolve a couple things in years past so hopefully will prove helpful again.
If your FTC and CPA efforts don't prove fruitful, consider filing a complaint with your state's AG. Some appear to be more helpful than others so you may want to first research a little regarding whether or not your AG has been corrupted (eg. any controversies where they seem to be erring in a political manner). File a complaint with the BBB as well (though they don't deal much in problem resolution, but more in ratings).
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Edit: Go down to Reviews and sort by most recent - definitely a big problem over there.
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/venmo.html?#sort=recent&filter=none
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Edit: Hit the Read More on that first displayed comment - seems like V is exhibiting some markedly marxist behavior by freezing people's accounts.
https://www.cardpaymentoptions.com/money-transfer/venmo/
Thanks, I had seen something about filing with the AG. FTC said besically they don't respond to individual reports so seemed they more or less wait until they have enough complaints to do something.
Yeah, last week after replying for an update I did a quick search on V and found nothing encouraging on them or their practices.
You might want to inform your artist client about this and suggest he try and pull his payment out from his end, if possible. I'm going to guess V is just planning on stealing everyone's money they want to. Good luck with this.
Yeah, that's crossed my mind but as a last resort being he's an older guy and I doubt the process is an easy/simple one.
Thanks, looking like I'll need it!