The conjunction of dating apps and Vemno created a new form of dating fraud. Two people connect on a dating app, they really hit it off, things are going fantastic, and they finally decide to meet. The dude says, “Look, there’s this really cool musical / opera / ballet / museum exhibit / contemporary dance performance, etc. What a great venue for our first date since we both love musicals / opera / ballet / museum exhibits / contemporary dance performances. Only, do you mind, because it’s our first date, and the tickets are kind of expensive, do you mind if we split the cost?”
The woman feels too shy to say she wants the dude to pay, so she agrees.
“That’s great,” says the dude. “OK, I bought the tickets! You can Venmo me your half of the price right now.”
With the use of AI, this gets mass-marketed in a major way.
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Wait, I don’t get it. What’s the fraud? That the guy takes the money but had never bought tickets in the first place? And then ghosts his date?
On a related note, I’m surprised to see on my venmo timeline that:
a) people do not make their transactions private. Insanity.
b) couples venmo $ to each other for small stuff. Jesus, you live together now. Seems so petty to send a venmo request to your girlfriend for your half of the dinner you had last night.
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Yes, he never shows up after getting the money.
I was equally freaked out when I saw in my Venmo that a friend’s husband’s transactions, together with the comments he was making to the recipients were somehow visible to me. It felt like I was spying on him. Very icky.
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“Wait, I don’t get it. What’s the fraud?”
It’s refreshing to see such innocence….
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Haha rich women getting scammed out of their pensions by Nigerian catfishers is old news but I wasn’t aware that this kind of fraud was happening at the Tinder/hookup level. Typical millennials, killing the goose that lays the golden eggs instead of putting in the effort for some long-term large-scale fleecing.
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