Was at E11even Miami this weekend, stripper told me only Venmo for private room dance since I had no cash. I didn’t trust this - happen to anyone else there? Bartenders also were charging me for their drinks every time I ordered one so something with Venmo request didn’t sit right.
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last commentMost likely they didn’t want the money going to the club. Seems like they were scamming club with the funds going directly to them. Unless somehow the Venmo was for the club which I highly doubt. South Florida is the Silicon Valley of scamming so this behavior would not surprise me.
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That place is associated with Freddy Figueroa. One of the biggest lowlifes in Vegas night life. Id never touch a venue associated with his junky bitch ass
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Venmo is certainly going to leave a trail for one and opens you to more scamming. Not a decision I would make but we all have different tolerences for risk.
From another side, a Cuban dancer with limited english at a club I frequent once asked me for help. A customer had venmo'd her, or at least it appeared like he had venmo'd her, but there was no money there. She had a Venmo account. She had an email from the customer saying that he was transferring $150 to her, but there was no money. I could not help her. Not sure how he pulled off that scam.
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I don't understand what you're saying?
Are you saying you didn't have cash so a stripper told you that you could use Venmo? That sounds totally reasonable. Perhaps not advisable, but I don't see that as inherently being a scam or anything. If you give a stripper an excuse as to why you can't spend on her, she's naturally gonna try to work around it. Any salesperson would do that. She likely could have offered to have the club sell you "funny money" with your credit card to use, but that's generally a bad deal for her and you. Clubs tend to take large cuts, 25% or more both when they sell it to you and when the girl cashes it in. A direct payment like venmo avoids those surcharges.
If you're saying the bartenders didn't want cash and were sending you Venmo requests when you ordered drinks, that smells a little fishy.
I'm not a regular visitor to this club, but I've absolutely had girls offer up Zelle/Venmo/Cashapp as payment options. Some of them prefer Venmo/Cashapp as they use it sorta like a bank account, it allows them to pay others electronically. I've even had girls offer to give me cash if I'd return it to them or pay someone on their behalf using those services. I wouldn't recommend doing so under ordinary circumstances, but again I think there are plenty of possible valid reasons for it and it isn't strictly a scam.
Now, if she said something like "Venmo me $2000 now and I'll meet you in your hotel at 4am" odds are, she was scamming you.
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If you told her up front you dont have cash- and in response she offered Venmo, that isnt automatically a scam.
But, a lot of clubs take a cut of money for private rooms, and i know that at least at some clubs, you actually pay a manager up front for the room or VIP costs.
So in this situation you would need to discuss the venmoing with whoever normally handles the funds for the private rooms… if its all handled by the dancers then she might not be scamming
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