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Venmo Users Have Feelings About Your Crappy Etiquette

Venmo is a service for financial transactions. It’s also designed like a social network. It’s a strange duality that predictably leads to some awkward questions of what good form looks like on the service. To somewhat answer that question, Venmo commissioned a survey for some insight into what its users believe is good etiquette. The…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Jun 25

Millions of Transactions Scraped in Latest Demonstration of Venmo’s Absurd Privacy Policy

Last year, nearly 210 million Venmo transactions were downloaded by a Berlin-based researcher, leading many privacy experts to question the PayPal-owned company’s claim that its users prefer to be social about their spending habits. In the wake of that study, Venmo apparently made a few changes to its API, hoping to at least limit the…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Jun 17

Don’t Leave a Negative Balance in Your Venmo Account (or Else)

Venmo, the PayPal-owned digital wallet perhaps best known as a way to exchange money with your drinking buddies, is apparently hounding users of delinquent accounts with threats of debt collection, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. According to the Journal, which obtained emails sent to Venmo users by the PayPal-owned service, accountholders with outstanding balances…

Tech News Catie Keck Mar 25

‘I’m Pissed That It’s Come to This’: Venmo Reportedly Pulled Features After Fraud ‘Spike’

If you’re wondering why earlier this year Venmo briefly froze instant transactions and nixed its website payments, you can apparently look no further than good old-fashioned fraud. A Wall Street Journal report cites internal documents indicating the PayPal-owned service pulled some of its features when it lost $40 million in the first quarter of 2018—a…

Tech News Victoria Song Nov 27

Hateful Kitties, Space Lasers, Spider-Man, and Soundbars: Best Gizmodo Posts of the Week

We’re up for a big week in the news, folks. There’s a lot going to happen, from Apple’s big September 12th announcement event to the notably less fun Hurricane Florence, which is currently projected to barrel into the East Coast at a minimum Category 3 status or possibly even worse before the weekend. As the…

Tech News Tom McKay Sep 9

How to Use Venmo Without Being a Petty Jerk

Venmo is an app that should be simple and transactional. Instead, it’s thorny and oftentimes awkward to navigate. It’s truly wild that a self-professed “digital wallet” stirs up so much drama. “A guy I was cheating on my boyfriend with once Venmoed me the morning after we got drinks, when I’d told my boyfriend I…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Sep 3

Is Venmo’s Default Privacy Setting Exposing Users to Harm?

The debate over whether social networks should enable privacy settings by default should have ended long ago. While so-called “opt-out” options may have adverse economic effects on some businesses, the range of potential consequences for users whose online exchanges are made public without their explicit knowledge is inestimable. As these possible, and in some cases…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Jul 20

Venmo, the People Are Begging for a ‘Cancel Payment’ Button

We all make mistakes, but some are worse than others. Make a typo in a text message? No big deal. But if you accidentally tap the “0″ one too many times when entering a payment on Venmo or misspell the recipient’s username, well, then you have a problem on your hands—and not much recourse to…

Tech News AJ Dellinger Jul 14

Consumers Allege Venmo Swiped $3,000, Even Though They Never Had Accounts

The PayPal-owned app Venmo has grown tremendously in the past couple of years as a way to share money between friends. But as with all financial services, consumers have had a few complaints, according to documents recently obtained by Gizmodo. I received the complaints through a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the Federal…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 4

Charity Finally Discovers Venmo Loophole That Lets Everyone Spam Us

It was only a matter of time before spam came to Venmo and, frankly, it’s astonishing that it took so long to figure out the marketing secret: You can message anyone on Venmo, so long as you send them as little as one cent. Or, perhaps other companies figured it out much earlier and decided…

Tech News Angela Chen Jul 8

How to Trick Venmo Into Thinking You’re a Terrorist

Much like yelling “I have a bomb!” in front of a police officer, using certain words or phrases online can often end badly. Now we have one more slangy acronym to add to the list of shit you can’t say on the internet. The Verge reports that typing “idek”—short for “I don’t even know”—into the…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman Mar 11

Stop Using Venmo

The first time I heard about Venmo, it sounded like a miracle. Hell yes, I want to send money to friends with my computerphone! I used Venmo enthusiastically for years. Then, it became a cesspool of awkward emoji and hidden fees, a place where money goes to hide. So I stopped, and you should too.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Feb 18

Don’t Joke About Syria on Venmo Unless You Want to Get Flagged

Joking about drugs, sex workers, and all sorts of other scandalous or weird purchases is part of the fun of using payment app Venmo. It can also get you flagged as a potential security risk. For instance, saying you sent someone money for “iced coffee obama nsa inside job syria” will trigger an alert for…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Oct 22

Reminder: Venmo Won’t Protect You From Scams

If you need to send money to a friend, Venmo makes life incredibly easy. The peer-to-peer payment app is a great tool to make sure everyone gets you back for pizza and beer. Unfortunately, it also gives scammers a great opportunity, because it’s not set up to help people get their money back when fraud…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Sep 17

PayPal Launches Service That Will Compete With Venmo, a Company It Owns

Do you like Venmo? Then you’re going to love PayPal.me, a new Venmo-like payment platform by PayPal, Venmo’s parent company. It works a lot like Venmo except, you know, it’s PayPal instead. It’s not quite as confusing as it sounds. PayPal.me is basically a streamlined version of its namesake that also makes it easy for…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Sep 1

Facebook Messenger Lets You Send Money In Chat Threads Now

Facebook’s payments feature for the Messenger app has been rolling out slowly across the U.S. and landed in New York City today armed with a couple new features. But how does it stack up against Venmo? I repaid a $5 happy hour debt to fellow Gotham-dwelling Gizmodian Darren Orf to find out. First introduced back…

Social Media Bryan Lufkin May 27

Pizza is the most popular emoji on Venmo

Venmo is a great way to ditch your wallet or buy drugs with your smartphone. Part of the fun is the simple fact that the app’s social networking features allows you to publicly shame your friends spending habits with emoji. The most popular emoji used on Venmo, by the way, is pizza—by a landslide. There’s…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Apr 2

You Can Send Money To Your Friends Through Facebook Messenger Now

Facebook Messenger now lets you send payments to your friends—exactly as you would with Venmo or Paypal. Except it’s way easier, because just about EVERYONE already has Facebook. The new functionality is built directly into the Facebook Messenger app. The only thing you need to do to pay your roommate for bills, rent, or dinner…

Social Media Mario Aguilar Mar 17

How to Ditch Your Big Terrible Bank

People don’t talk about it quite as much as they did in 2008, but big banks are the worst. Aside from the fact that they’re full of crooks, big banks provide terrible customer service, charge obscene fees, and profit from your misery. You should probably stop giving them your money now. Unfortunately, short of keeping…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Oct 23

Looks Like Facebook Messenger Is Prepping Friend-to-Friend Payments

Facebook Messenger has a friend-to-friend payment feature in the works, and it’s already set up in the app. It’s just not turned on for the general public. The payment feature would let you give and receive money by providing Facebook with debit card information, similar to Square Cash. Stanford student Andrew Aude uncovered the hidden…

Social Media Kate Knibbs Oct 5

Venmo Users Have Feelings About Your Crappy Etiquette

Millions of Transactions Scraped in Latest Demonstration of Venmo’s Absurd Privacy Policy

Don’t Leave a Negative Balance in Your Venmo Account (or Else)

‘I’m Pissed That It’s Come to This’: Venmo Reportedly Pulled Features After Fraud ‘Spike’

Hateful Kitties, Space Lasers, Spider-Man, and Soundbars: Best Gizmodo Posts of the Week

How to Use Venmo Without Being a Petty Jerk

Is Venmo’s Default Privacy Setting Exposing Users to Harm?

Venmo, the People Are Begging for a ‘Cancel Payment’ Button

Consumers Allege Venmo Swiped $3,000, Even Though They Never Had Accounts

Charity Finally Discovers Venmo Loophole That Lets Everyone Spam Us

How to Trick Venmo Into Thinking You’re a Terrorist

Stop Using Venmo

Don’t Joke About Syria on Venmo Unless You Want to Get Flagged

Reminder: Venmo Won’t Protect You From Scams

PayPal Launches Service That Will Compete With Venmo, a Company It Owns

Facebook Messenger Lets You Send Money In Chat Threads Now

Pizza is the most popular emoji on Venmo

You Can Send Money To Your Friends Through Facebook Messenger Now

How to Ditch Your Big Terrible Bank

Looks Like Facebook Messenger Is Prepping Friend-to-Friend Payments

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