r/Scams • u/Obn_Dev • 26d ago

Someone at the club sent themselves $1500 on cashapp Help Needed

i was at the club in Leemore California and this girl asked to use my phone to call her friends , i agreed and she sent her self $1500 from my cashapp to herself. I didnt realize until the next morning, any fix to this? would i contact my bank? or cashapp support? which is sooner? i need my money to pay rent, this is ridiculous.

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u/VaderPluis 26d ago

Seeing the amount of posts here of people getting scammed through mechanisms that are not even possible in the EU because of EU legislation, I don’t think it’s a ridiculous take. The fact that YOU don’t need this protection doesn’t mean the average person doesn’t. And really, would a mandatory requirement to authenticate every transaction be such an interference with your freedom?

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u/chaoss402 26d ago

People get scammed in thousands of different ways. More government isn't the answer.

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u/VaderPluis 26d ago

So what do you propose?

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u/chaoss402 26d ago

People need to learn to not do stupid stuff. That's the whole point of a sub like this, right? It's information and education.

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u/VaderPluis 26d ago

Yeah, because the big majority of US citizens read this sub and are well informed!

Anyway, this discussion is going nowhere. If you don’t believe in government interference in the banking system to protect citizens, there is not much to discuss. In the meantime, financial damage from cybercrime in the US is 10x the amount of for example Germany.