Monday, April 18

I wrote “ISIS Beer Funds!!!” in a Venmo memo and the feds detained my $42

(credit: cthoyes)

This post originally appeared on Inverse and has been re-published with the permission of that site.

Telling a friend you’re paying him back for “ISIS beer funds!!!” is not a particularly good joke. I knew this as I was typing it at 2am on a Sunday, but what I did not know is that it’s an even worse joke on Venmo because the federal government will detain your $42.

Almost immediately after I hit send, Venmo—you know, the app that allows people to send money to each other via their phones—blasted an e-mail into my inbox. The company wanted to “better understand a recent payment,” specifically:

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