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'I have no money': Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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CNBC spoke to a dozen customers caught in the Synapse fintech predicament, people who are owed sums ranging from $7,000 to well over $200,000.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Goddam I'm happy to live in a place where these things are well regulated!
This is an absolute horror story, people chose a saving account they thought was super secured, and instead it's a total scam.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am from the US and I have no idea what they are talking about here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Me either, it sounds like it was a gambling site that encouraged large deposits and offered some sort of benefits for doing so. This seems extremely unethical, and should probably have been illegal based on gambling or banking rules.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Apparently they weren't always a gambling site in the way that you see today, they switched over to this sometime in the last 2 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBUkajbg688&t=119s

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