Is it Safe to Share Your Venmo on Social Media?

Written by Ricky Nave in Finance

You need two pieces of information to access a Venmo account. The first piece of information is a username, phone number, or email address (any of them can be used). The second piece of information is a password. So is sharing your Venmo username on social media safe?

As long as you have a long, strong password that you don’t share with anyone, then sharing your Venmo username online is perfectly safe and poses no hacking risk to your Venmo account. In fact, you have to share your Venmo username or a linked phone number or email address in order for anyone to ever send you a payment.

HOWEVER, the same information that is needed by someone to send you a payment can also be used by someone to request a payment, so make sure you know that any payment request you receive is from someone you actually know before paying it.

Ricky Nave

In college, Ricky studied physics & math, won a prestigious research competition hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, started several small businesses including an energy chewing gum business and a computer repair business, and graduated with a thesis in algebraic topology. After graduating, Ricky attended grad school at Duke University in the mathematics PhD program where he worked on quantum algorithms & non-Euclidean geometry models for flexible proteins. He also worked in cybersecurity at Los Alamos during this time before eventually dropping out of grad school to join a startup working on formal semantic modeling for legal documents. Finally, he left that startup to start his own in the finance & crypto space. Now, he helps entrepreneurs pay less capital gains tax.

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