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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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[โ€“] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I am from the US and I have no idea what they are talking about here.

[โ€“] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 minutes ago

Me either, it sounds like it was a gambling site that encouraged large deposits and offered some sort of benefits for doing so. This seems extremely unethical, and should probably have been illegal based on gambling or banking rules.