🚨Attention Venezuela 🇻🇪 🚨
Be very careful when using the Payment Apps 💱💸 that are proliferating.
I will describe in 3 points what I consider should be taken into account before starting to use these Apps like Apolo, Meru, Kontigo, etc. and that every day new ones appear:
1. The people and financial instruments behind these Apps are somehow related to the government of Venezuela (for a reason they are allowed) so they are under surveillance by governments like that of the USA for money laundering, etc. If you have your international account, take care of it, do not risk it by using these platforms.
2. At the moment of funding, you are really "Not buying" the Crypto in question: $USDT $USDC , etc. You are simply credited an amount that will serve to pay other users of the app, with the promise that when you want to withdraw them from the platform, it will be paid. When you want to withdraw those cryptos is when things get interesting, the fees will devour you and be careful that a collective fear (FUD) does not arise where everyone starts withdrawing their cryptos, because mysteriously it will be in "temporary maintenance for withdrawals" and will not be active again, which will translate into a scam.
3. You are giving all your "KYC" information and you are giving access to all your financial instruments, -why?, they have all the necessary data to act on your behalf before any financial entity. Surely the apps will not do that, but if someone breaches the data stored on their servers, whether it be an employee, hackers, etc. They do not have a company that audits and certifies all processes regarding security, only the trust in the good work performed by the freelancers hired to program these Apps.
