Why Stalkers Are Scanning Your Venmo

Why I Love Venmo for Gathering Information

Mar 23, 2025

Hmmm, they sent money to this person many of times. Let me see who this is. Ooooh, here we go

Introduction

My friend

wrote a brilliant article recently about 3 hidden settings on Venmo you should know about and why you should make your Venmo private, and I will link that article below, because he lists it out perfectly. I’m here to piggyback off of that and tell you what goes through my mind when I’m investigating someone, and I see an exposed Venmo. The puzzle pieces that can be gathered and the information that can be found and/or confirmed. Another cranny to examine in the rabbit hole of information.

Their Venmo Helped Me Confirm

This was an investigation I did on someone a while back trying to find out who they were and where they were located because they were harassing a friend of mine. Of course, I found and went through everything that I had on them until eventually, I came across a data broker profile that I had a hunch was for them.

I suspected that was them due to other information I had, but I wanted to confirm. The best thing (or worst thing) about these data broker sites is they not only have your information, but your family and who you associate with.

I had this person’s Venmo, and I saw that them and “Mr. Denney” (as you see in the photo) were making a lot of transactions

SHARE BREAK. Did you share? Good.

“Who is this person and why are they making so many transactions?”, “Are they related to them in anyway?” “Hmm, If I see this person listed on their data broker account, that pretty much confirms that’s the same person”

All stuff going through my brain, and they were also friends with this person.

“Many transactions AND friends? Must be family or associated with them in some kind of way”

And when I saw this on the “family” part of the data broker profile

I knew it was them. The exact name of the person they were paying back and forth on Venmo. So that, combined with the other pieces of information I had, it was all I needed to confirm that this data broker profile belonged to the person I was trying to find.

Of course, that then lead me to their location.

Conclusion: Keep Your Venmo Private

It would’ve been much harder for me to confirm everything if this person didn’t have their Venmo public. Now granted, the same comparison technique can be used with Facebook, but that’s an article for another time.

When it comes to the stalker’s mindset, everything found about you or around you is a question; a potential piece of the puzzle that is YOU. If your Venmo is public, that’s just more people for them to research to find out more about you.

This is why you should read this article by

Jason Rowe

on how to make your Venmo private and turn off critical settings