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If you're a European teenager transfering money to someone you know, it's customary to enter something like "Payment for the drugs and the firearms".
by hansjorg 7y ago
If you're a European teenager transfering money to someone you know, it's customary to enter something like "Payment for the drugs and the firearms".
- filoleg 7y agoSame with Venmo in the US. There is literally a whole website that polls the front-page API for Venmo, scans for some keywords that could indicate a "spicy" transaction description, and displays them.[0] P.S. I have zero affiliation with the website or the owners/developers, I just thought it was entertaining. 0. http://www.vicemo.com/ http://www.vicemo.com/
- kraftman 7y agoWhy are these all public?
- detaro 7y agobecause venmo wants to be a bit of a "social network" somehow
- tialaramex 7y agoe.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWFLztKBrLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWFLztKBrLY
- herpderperator 7y agoYou decide if you want the transaction to be public when you make the transaction.
- Rebelgecko 7y agoYou have to be careful with "naughty" words, like if your description includes the name of a company on the Dept of Treasury's shitlist[1] Some of them are fairly generic terms. I remember when this was posted[2] on HN (payment troubles caused by writing "Blue Sky" on the memo field in a check, because a company called "Blue Sky Industries" was caught doing business with Iran). Supposedly Venmo will also flag your payment if you put "ISIS" or something like that in the description [1]: https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/sdnlist.txt https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/sdnlist.txt [2]: http://anildash.com/2014/02/21/here_is_a_thing_that_happened/ http://anildash.com/2014/02/21/here_is_a_thing_that_happened...
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoI would be concerned about soundex matches too.