It’s a tough Monday morning for Chicago Bears place kicker Cody Parkey — but at least he’s being compensated for it.

The kicker missed a late 43-yard field goal that would have won Sunday’s wild-card-round game against the Philadelphia Eagles, ending his overachieving team’s bid to advance in the playoffs and toward its first Super Bowl appearance since 2007. The missed field goal has already been called “among [the] most brutal in NFL playoff history.” The kick looked like a winner until its leftward drift resulted in its hitting the upright, then the crossbar, drawing gasps from the crowd.

Parkey, 26 and in his first season with Chicago, told reporters after the game: “It’s one of the worst feelings in the world to let your team down, so I feel terrible. I’m going to continue to put things in perspective and just put my best foot forward, and sleep at night knowing I did everything in my power.” Speaking of his teammates, he added, “Every single one of them said they’ve got my back and love me.”

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Eagles fans, however, were elated that he’d missed — and appreciative. Immediately after the game they began rewarding (or, you might say, taunting) Parkey by sending him money via the payment app Venmo. “One dollar per point you left on the board,” wrote one Eagles fan in a note accompanying a payment to Parkey. “Thank you for sucking! Go birds!” wrote another.

Other messages consisted entirely of eagle and football emoji. The payment app does not show payment amounts, only that a payment was made. Notes describing payments can be seen by anyone using the app unless users make them private.

Parkey’s profile was public but has since been made private, and Venmo does not show the total number of payments made for a particular reason, even if the person in question has privacy settings on “public.”

Savvy Venmo users were quick to cash in on the kicker’s misfortune. One user name was opportunistically changed to “Cody Parkey PleaseHelpMePayForSchool” and another became “Not Cody Parkey But Need Beer Money.” By Monday morning, dozens of fake “Cody Parkeys” had flooded the platform.

The phenomenon underscores the facts that Venmo transactions are entirely public unless users change their privacy settings and that users can easily look up anyone on the platform and see their payment history.

In fact, many people use the app to keep tabs on exes or on public figures. It’s another reminder of the importance of making your Venmo account private — not least if you’re an NFL kicker. The platform makes a massive amount of data about users’ lives public by default, a report released in July found.

Meanwhile, even Bears fans got busy directing funds to another cause: getting rid of Parkey. Bears fans set up a GoFundMe page (which is now inactive) with the goal of buying out the remainder of Parkey’s reported four-year, $15 million contract.

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The platform was previously investigated by the Federal Trade Commission for “misleading” users about the fact that they needed to change two separate privacy settings to make their transactions completely private. The company reached a settlement with the FTC.

As the backlash against Venmo’s privacy policy continues, the company has added push notifications to alert users as to how they can make certain transactions private. Venmo did not immediately respond to a MarketWatch request for comment but has said in the past that it added privacy options in response to the investigation.

To make your Venmo account private, go to “settings” and click “privacy.” Under the privacy setting, users can select “private” as a default privacy setting for all future payments. There is an option to make all past transactions private as well, which you should probably do — unless you’re trying to get paid for a missed field goal.