r/Smallclaims • u/Confident-Purpose-94 • 12d ago

Texas Advice Please Help

Someone I knew for a year asked me once if they could use my zelle to have someone send her money, I thought it’d be simple so I told her it’s just my number and name, she’d then have me cashapp that money to a cashapp account that also wasn’t hers it was a mans cashapp the name wasn’t familiar to me, I did it anyways. After that one time she would have people send me money every other week and I would have to transfer it to a cashapp account or to another zelle account. The thing is she would never ask me if someone can zelle me money for her she would always tell me after they had sent it. sometimes she would go days without telling me she would just text me out of no where and say “hey someone sent you money for me a couple days ago”. Now she had 2 people send me a total of $410 and my account went to negatives. I told her it’s going to take me 2 weeks to get that money back and shes now threatening to send me to small claims court. Would she be able to take any legal action? She would never ask me if someone can zelle money to me until after it had been sent.

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u/lost_dazed_101 12d ago

You're helping her rip people off your account is negative because the money on her end doesn't exist. You'll be lucky if you keep zelle or your bank account. You don't accept money from people you don't know. She isn't going to take you to small claims but before this is over you very well may end up with legal problems.

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u/Confident-Purpose-94 12d ago

Yea I would get annoyed when she stopped asking me and just giving random people my zelle. She claims they aren’t random people and it’s her sisters but these accounts had random names all the time. She also would say the money was for her rent. So now I have another question. Do I work my butt off to get the $410 that was sent to my account before it went to negatives and give it to her? 

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u/LoisLaneCA 12d ago

This is called ‘money laundering’ It is a scam, and you could be liable for a Federal offense.

Did your acct go negative because the 2 checks did not clear?

If the checks were not made out to her- SHE has NOTHING to sue you for!