# BadRequest - On Transfer

**URL:** <https://discuss.dwolla.com/t/badrequest-on-transfer/4088>\
**Category:** API Support\
**Created:** [April 17, 2017, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.dwolla.com/t/badrequest-on-transfer/4088 "2017-04-17T13:53:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jennoxcel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@jennoxcel](https://discuss.dwolla.com/u/jennoxcel)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.dwolla.com/t/badrequest-on-transfer/4088/1 "2017-04-17T13:53:52Z")

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Hello Team,

I would like to make a transfer and that always throws me a very strange error

```
{
  "code": "BadRequest",
  "message": "The request body contains bad syntax or is incomplete."
}

```

Please find the request body

```
 {
    "_links": {
        "source": {
            "href": "https://api-sandbox.dwolla.com/accounts/048a19cc-c4e9-4f63-9883-79ef7bd77711/funding-sources"
        },
        "destination": {
            "href": "https://api-sandbox.dwolla.com/customers/056fda57-2c56-49a0-aeff-35125957a59a/"
        }
    },
    "amount": {
        "currency": "USD",
        "value": "10.00"
    }
}

```

Any ideas on how to fix this?

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**Author:** ![spencer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/dwolla/user_avatar/discuss.dwolla.com/spencer/32/2143_2.png) [@spencer](https://discuss.dwolla.com/u/spencer)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.dwolla.com/t/badrequest-on-transfer/4088/2 "2017-04-17T14:50:30Z")

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> [@jennoxcel](#):
>
> “source”: {  
> “href”: “[https://api-sandbox.dwolla.com/accounts/048a19cc-c4e9-4f63-9883-79ef7bd77711/funding-sources](https://api-sandbox.dwolla.com/accounts/048a19cc-c4e9-4f63-9883-79ef7bd77711/funding-sources)”  
> }

@jennoxcel, source must always be a funding source that belongs to a [Customer](https://docsv2.dwolla.com/#customers) or [Account](https://docsv2.dwolla.com/#accounts) resource. The link you pass in should look something like this: `https://api-sandbox.dwolla.com/funding-sources/4a4f7380-c91c-4757-932b-cb44a8a396ec`.

You should be able to obtain funding sources for your account with a GET to `/accounts/048a19cc-c4e9-4f63-9883-79ef7bd77711/funding sources` as shown in the docs [here](https://docsv2.dwolla.com/#list-funding-sources-for-an-account).