A young boy asked to borrow her phone to call his family and then sent himself nearly $4,000 on Venmo.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Florida woman is warning others after nearly losing $4,000 in a high-tech pickpocket.
"I get alerts from my bank that my two Venmo transfers were approved," she said."One was in the amount of $1,800. The other one was in the amount of $2,000. And that's when I stopped dead in my tracks."
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