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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    Risky investment turns out to be risky. No one could have seen that coming.

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      This isn’t about shareholders being wiped out. It’s about account holders of what they thought were bank accounts losing everything because their accounts were powered on the back end by a company they’d never heard of or directly dealt with.

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      If you see this as investment, then consider that investors were lied to (the startups claimed to have FDIC coverage) and didn’t have accurate information to assess the risk.

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      Yeah, it’s almost weird that it’s news.

      Imagine if they made news after a big fight about people who gambled and lost.

      Imo the bigger news is the financial illiteracy of the average person.