{"id":497846,"date":"2023-01-12T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T00:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=497846"},"modified":"2023-01-12T02:56:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T02:56:24","slug":"peer-payment-apps-how-to-avoid-accidentally-sending-people-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/peer-payment-apps-how-to-avoid-accidentally-sending-people-money","title":{"rendered":"Peer payment apps: how to avoid accidentally sending people money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (DC News Now) &#8212; DMV residents have reported hundreds, to thousands of dollars in losses from accidentally sending payments to unintended recipients via peer-to-peer apps. While some people fall victim to scams or even honest accidents when transferring money&#8230; Rashawn Higgs, a Tysons, Virginia resident, told DC News Now he attempted to buy his brother new Air Jordan sneakers from an apparent seller on Instagram. Higgs said he paid $300 through Zelle to the person behind the account but never heard back from them. &#8220;I think there should be better protection on the cards because everything in that world now is moving to plastic,&#8221; Higgs said. Another Tysons resident, Justin Green, told DC News Now that he sent $1,100 to someone via Cash App when trying to purchase a used car. However, Green indicated the phone number associated with the seller was incorrect, and the actual recipient refused to return his money. &#8220;I try to request the money back,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (DC News Now) &#8212; DMV residents have reported hundreds, to thousands of dollars in losses from accidentally sending payments to unintended recipients via peer-to-peer apps. While some people fall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,1,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-news","category-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}