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Venmo - Geolocation Challenges


From: Justin Krejci <JKrejci () usinternet com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:42:18 +0000

Hello,


I am looking for a Venmo network contact that can assist with a geolocation error in their systems. We have customers 
on a particular IP prefix who are being flagged by Venmo as outside of the USA but they are not outside of the USA. All 
standard geolocation systems I can find, as well as ARIN, all show the IP prefix as within the USA. Normal Venmo 
support channels are not fruitful to resolve the issue, they mostly just indicated users need to use their mobile data 
connection to get a different IP address for Venmo transactions. That is fine as a temporary work around but that is 
not a solution. Venmo support has expressed they are not going to do anything more for us in this regard.


So if anyone has a relevant contact I might reach out to at Venmo or knows if Venmo uses a particular 3rd party 
geolocation data set and can share that with me that would be appreciated. I don't mind working with any organization 
to straighten out any stale data, I just need some assistance getting to someone who has the info or access.


Thanks!!

Justin Krejci


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