[$1000] Money request is shown from the other account instead of current user.

[kavimuru]

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Action Performed:

1. Create a new chat.
2. Click on '+' and request money.

Expected Result:

The IOU should be from the current user.

Actual Result:

The IOU is shown to be from the user we are chatting with.

Workaround:

Can the user still use Expensify without this being fixed? Have you informed them of the workaround?

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: 1.3.40-5
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: n
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

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Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @esh-g
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1689261117044569

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @michaelhaxhiu (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @robertjchen (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

[francoisl]

Is this actually a bug? The same behavior is happening on production for me. Besides, it says " owes",
showing that the money request was sent to them

Production	Staging

[jeet-dhandha]

The message should have gone from the requester's account instead of the payer's account.