Hi everyone,
A friend of mine needed to send me 500 USD (that I had lended to her a few years ago). However she now only uses cryptocurrency and I absolutely know nothing about it. I downloaded Abra and created an account.
She sent me 500 USDT but the amount doesn't want to show up in my wallet. I noticed afterwards the following message: "Minimum deposit 1000 USDT. Please top up deposits below the minimum amount to credit your USDT wallet"
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I don't know how Abra works but I find it strange what you say, as the limits are usually much lower. I have searched and I see this:
Does Abra have a minimum transaction amount? Deposits:
ACH: You can only deposit the equivalent of $5.00 USD or above via US or PH bank. You can deposit less than $5.00 USD via cryptocurrency.
Wire: You can only deposit the equivalent of $5.00 USD or above via our wire program.
Crypto: Some cryptocurrency deposits will require a minimum in order for those funds to reflect in your wallet,
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another page I see that they also talk about limits as an example lower than $1K:
Minimum Amount Issues:
For any ERC-20 deposits below the minimum amount, users will need to top up their deposits to the minimum amount before we credit the wallet. For example, if the minimum deposit amount for ETH is 0.1 ETH and a deposit of 0.085 ETH is made,
So that would be $165 at current prices.
Also:
For example, if the minimum deposit amount for BTC is 0.005 BTC and a deposit of 0.002 BTC is made
That would be $120 at current prices.
I'm not saying it's not as you say, the low limit of $1K for USD but you better double check it.
In any case, if it is confirmed that it is as you say it is, it seems to me a shitty platform with those limits and you would have no other choice but to deposit another $500 in USDT, but I don't know if it would be of much use if you want to make a bank transfer. Maybe the solution in that case would be to transfer the total $1K to another site where you can convert to local currency and they have a lower limit for bank transfer that allows you to execute the operation.