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'I have no money': Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis (www.cnbc.com)

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CNBC spoke to a dozen customers caught in the Synapse fintech predicament, people who are owed sums ranging from $7,000 to well over $200,000.

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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Isn’t that what they signed up for when they put their money in a nonFDIC insured account?

[–] Fisherswamp@programming.dev 14 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Read the article, and maybe don't be such a heartless bastard?

Several people CNBC interviewed said signing up seemed like a good bet since Yotta and other fintechs advertised that deposits were FDIC-insured through Evolve.

“We were assured that this was just a savings account,” Morris said during last week’s hearing. “We are not risk-takers, we’re not gamblers.”

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

I realize that my comment does sound really harsh. And there definitely should be criminal penalties for falsely advertising that they were an FDIC covered institution and a best effort to return the funds

But (again I am being harsh again) there is risk in putting your money in a faceless app instead of a brick and mortar institution and there needs to be some personal accountability for making bad decisions