apps like venmo and paypal had become popular ways for businesses and customers to transfer money but they've also become easy avenues for scammers to steal your money kobbk's grace moore spoke to some lubbock locals who were recently victims of a venmo scam grace how much money did they take terry they ended up taking around 200 and while they aren't sure who's behind this the scammer impersonated rhonda norris's venmo and and used it to request money from her family now i spoke to a cyber secu
rity expert who claims that scams like this one have been happening a lot more since the start of the pandemic it started with a notification that taylor harper thought was from her godmother i got a venmo request saying hey can you send me a hundred bucks i left my wallet at home and harper didn't think anything of it and so i just you know sent the money about 10 minutes later my youngest daughter calls me and she says mama i only have 80 dollars on my card i said well i didn't take any money
off your car that's when rhonda norris discovered that someone had been using her name and photo to scam her two daughters and goddaughter through venmo that wasn't that was not me i did not ask you for any money they stole 200 and when norris reached out to venmo to get the money back they were unable to help her venmo claims transactions on their app are like cash if you pay someone who turns out to be a scammer it's almost impossible to get the money back this was fraud somebody used my pictu
re and my pro my profile picture and my name to get money out off of you know people that knew me bizarre solutions ceo mike bazar says that when it comes to the internet always be skeptical treat the internet like it's april fools it's the first april so don't trust anybody they're all trying to trick you and everybody's out to get you and that cutting down on fraud is as easy as double checking make sure that you verify any unsolicited or unknown contact through another method so if you get an
email make a phone call if you get a text message make a phone call or send them an email but for norris she doesn't plan on using venmo ever again you really feel violated you really do you know it's really a strange feeling that you know i felt i felt responsible bazar also said that setting your accounts to private and using any two-factor authentication when available are also ways that you can minimize the threat of fraud terri
Comments