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Hopefully they require a password or a PIN each time you send a message with cash in it.

Otherwise anybody could steal money from you as long as they can get into your phone and open snapchat.

Square uses the CVC number on the back of the card as a pin for this currently. It's not the most secure way to handle it imo, but it does stop the general user from picking up a phone and stealing all their money from snapchat (if this feature carries over to snapcash).

Strange, why not just have the user choose a password or a typical 4-digit pin? This would still be way more secure than using the CVC number.

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