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Open Serve: Do 1 of the following:
1) Buy a temporary card. (free in cvs in NJ won’t take cc)($3.95 fee), or
2) Open online. They’ll send you a card. (free)
Note that you COULD have more than one of these: Bluebird (BB), Redcard and serve. 

Loading Serve: Serve does not have any fees to load money.
a) At CVS, 7-11, and Rite Aid ONLY CASH can be loaded.
b) At Walmart GCs …uh Debit Cards (besides Vanilla cards) can be loaded onto Serve just like onto BB. Load limit: $2500/day up to $5000/month
c) At Family Dollar max $499.99/Day, not hard coded, YMMV, Cash or Debit/Gift Card.
WARNING: There are reports of debit cards being drained at FD, and not loading onto Serve, so FD is not recommended.
d) An Amex CC of the serve cardholder can be linked and used to fund your Serve ONLINE. Load limit: $200 per day/$1000 per month
Amex cc loads are not considered cash advance. They DO NOT earn points, or count towards a spending threshold.
e) Debit Cards linked to Serve: $200/day up to 1000/month ONLINE.  But only a permanent DC with your name on it. (NOT GCs)

So your total loading limit per month, if using all 3 methods is $7K.

-Serve has a $1 monthly inactivity fee (waived in VA, NY and TX) that is waived if you use Direct Deposit OR add $500.
-If Serve has a bonus for using direct deposit, use AP.

Using the funds on Serve:
-Free ATM use/withdrawal at MoneyPass ATMs. $2 elsewhere.
-Serve has a Bill Pay feature – same as BB.  You tell them who to pay, and they send a check for you.  You can pay up to 5k of unregistered billers, but 10K of registered ones (registered= those on their bill pay list). Pay your Credit Cards bills as well as many other bills or any person!
WARNING: Do not use the bill pay feature to pay the Credit Card that is linked for online loads.
-money in your Serve account can be withdrawn directly to a linked bank account, which, if done too much, may be seen as risky by Serve, but in moderation should be fine.
Withdraw to your bank https://secure.serve.com/Actions/WithdrawMoney

Make sure the name, address and phone number on your profile match your credit card billing address, or you may get declined.  When linking your credit card at serve.com, the website will only show you the address on your profile, but not the phone number, so this is easy to overlook.  Go to profile, and check/update your phone number there.

Error likely with the Serve account:
When you create a new account and add a credit card, you will be allowed to do the first transaction. After that, your account will probably go into system lockdown until you verify some information. Likely error message for this case is "Risk declined operation" when you try to add money on to the account. You will need to send in (online, fax or mail) a photo ID and a copy of your credit card or statement. Upload your documents here -
https://secure.serve.com/User/SecureFileUpload. Then Call up AMEX Account Protection Services at 1-800-555-4318 and tell them you uploaded the documents and ask them to verify it for you.
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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5940 on: February 29, 2016, 01:49:41 AM »
Just went to CVS to buy OV, and there was a young couple ahead of me, each person with 10 green Serves in hand. I heard one of them refer to a particular cashier -- "great, he's going to ask why we're buying so many", suggesting that they've done this before. When they were at the cashier, I could hear they loaded about $25-30 to each one, some a little more, others a little less. All cards were paid for with cash. Obviously, they're not just doing this to use as prepaid cards for themselves. Anybody have any ideas what they could've used so many Serves with low balances on them?

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5941 on: February 29, 2016, 01:53:20 AM »

Just went to CVS to buy OV, and there was a young couple ahead of me, each person with 10 green Serves in hand. I heard one of them refer to a particular cashier -- "great, he's going to ask why we're buying so many", suggesting that they've done this before. When they were at the cashier, I could hear they loaded about $25-30 to each one, some a little more, others a little less. All cards were paid for with cash. Obviously, they're not just doing this to use as prepaid cards for themselves. Anybody have any ideas what they could've used so many Serves with low balances on them?
maybe they are laundering money?

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5942 on: February 29, 2016, 03:36:38 AM »
maybe they are laundering money?

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5943 on: February 29, 2016, 04:46:48 AM »

maybe they are laundering money?

Impossible, they were using cash. Laundering is only done with debit cards.

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5944 on: February 29, 2016, 01:37:21 PM »
Just went to CVS to buy OV, and there was a young couple ahead of me, each person with 10 green Serves in hand. I heard one of them refer to a particular cashier -- "great, he's going to ask why we're buying so many", suggesting that they've done this before. When they were at the cashier, I could hear they loaded about $25-30 to each one, some a little more, others a little less. All cards were paid for with cash. Obviously, they're not just doing this to use as prepaid cards for themselves. Anybody have any ideas what they could've used so many Serves with low balances on them?

   When did CVS  start/allow loads of green serve cards aside from  the original temp card .

  Is this only with cash not debit like RA or FD ?
What am I missing ?

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5945 on: February 29, 2016, 01:49:21 PM »
   When did CVS  start/allow loads of green serve cards aside from  the original temp card .

  Is this only with cash not debit like RA or FD ?
What am I missing ?
CVS allows cash reloads.

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5946 on: February 29, 2016, 01:57:55 PM »
Just went to CVS to buy OV, and there was a young couple ahead of me, each person with 10 green Serves in hand. I heard one of them refer to a particular cashier -- "great, he's going to ask why we're buying so many", suggesting that they've done this before. When they were at the cashier, I could hear they loaded about $25-30 to each one, some a little more, others a little less. All cards were paid for with cash. Obviously, they're not just doing this to use as prepaid cards for themselves. Anybody have any ideas what they could've used so many Serves with low balances on them?

Amex offers?

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5947 on: February 29, 2016, 01:59:34 PM »
Amex offers?
1. They used cash. 2. Which offer?

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5948 on: February 29, 2016, 02:01:40 PM »
1. They used cash. 2. Which offer?
Serve gets amex offers.  Maybe they wanted to use an offer multiple times.

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5949 on: February 29, 2016, 05:26:05 PM »
CVS allows cash reloads.

 And I assume that that goes towards the $5K per month loading limit ? Is it also safe ?
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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5950 on: February 29, 2016, 06:05:57 PM »
And I assume that that goes towards the $5K per month loading limit ?
Thanks .

Correct.

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5951 on: February 29, 2016, 06:43:38 PM »

   When did CVS  start/allow loads of green serve cards aside from  the original temp card .

  Is this only with cash not debit like RA or FD ?
What am I missing ?

They weren't loading the green Serves. They bought 20 of them. And sounds like they bought a bunch of them earlier as well. I can't think of any reason why anybody would want that many Serve cards other than to launder money.

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5952 on: March 01, 2016, 01:56:04 AM »
They weren't loading the green Serves. They bought 20 of them. And sounds like they bought a bunch of them earlier as well. I can't think of any reason why anybody would want that many Serve cards other than to launder money.

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5953 on: March 01, 2016, 07:32:52 AM »
No one is putting in that kind of effort to launder such small amounts of money. Anyone in a shady business can sit with much more than just a couple hundred bucks...

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5954 on: March 01, 2016, 07:43:04 AM »
No one is putting in that kind of effort to launder such small amounts of money. Anyone in a shady business can sit with much more than just a couple hundred bucks...
You obviously need to meet some more people who launder money lol. Some people will go far and wide. To buy 1000 serve cards or more isn't so out of wack.  If these guys were really laundering than they only started when this was going on .

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5955 on: March 01, 2016, 07:47:19 AM »
You obviously need to meet some more people who launder money lol. Some people will go far and wide. To buy 1000 serve cards or more isn't so out of wack.  If these guys were really laundering than they only started when this was going on .
1000 serve cards to launder $25 each (op's eavesdropped amounts)... Thats 100 trips to drug store... to launder a measly 25k? No chance...

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5956 on: March 01, 2016, 07:56:52 AM »
1000 serve cards to launder $25 each (op's eavesdropped amounts)... Thats 100 trips to drug store... to launder a measly 25k? No chance...
25k might be nothing to you in terms of jewish needed salaries..otherwise that's alot of money for people. I guess you'd be surprised

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5957 on: March 01, 2016, 08:00:12 AM »
Maybe next time just ask them?

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5958 on: March 01, 2016, 08:15:21 AM »

Maybe next time just ask them?
ymmv pple aren't as open as jewz about dry cleaning services . מי כעמך ישראל 

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5959 on: March 01, 2016, 09:42:27 PM »
What are recent reports re loading Serve at RA or DG with Visa GCs? Thanks.