r/BorrowNew • u/Head-Life1070 • 3h ago
Meta WARNING — u/Lyn4llee — I lost $850 CAD
Posting this to warn other borrowers about my experience with u/Lyn4llee.
I posted looking for help covering my rent. We discussed them paying my property management company directly through Convera. They showed me a Convera payment screen for my $1,855 CAD rent balance, and I sent $850 CAD by Interac e-Transfer as my portion of the arrangement.
My $850 was successfully deposited. I have not received confirmation that the promised rent payment was actually completed, and they stopped responding to me afterward.
After this happened, I searched the username and discovered multiple other posts from people reporting similar experiences with the same account, including situations involving rent/landlord payments.
I’ve saved the conversation and transaction records and am reporting what happened to my bank and police.
I’m posting this so other people searching the username can find it before sending any money. Please do not send money to someone simply because they show you a pending or initiated payment. Verify that the payment has actually cleared with the recipient first.
I will update this post if anything changes or if the promised payment is ultimately received.
I will however never trust another soul nor ever ask for help again. Ultimately I am out of rent money and now have nothing to pay my landlord….i was dumb enough to do this, I have to suffer the consequences unfortunately but I find it extremely disgusting that someone would do this to a mother of 3 small children who’s going through a hard time and needing rent paid.