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19.09.2022, 14:04
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| | | Scam heads up while selling your used goods
Hi everyone,
I have bumped into this two times already and want to raise awareness. I sell used stuff on FB marketplace/ebay/etc. and lately I am being approached by seemingly authentic would be buyers which turn out to be scammers.
They will send you a pre-canned message saying that they want your product but they are always either busy or far away and can only:
1. send a courier such as Fedex Express to deliver you an envelope with cash. Big red scam alert here!
2. send another courier to pick up the goods.
It seems that this is the latest trend in scamming and you can search Google for "people offering to send envelop with cash" to find other victims.
I had this offer two times now in my FB Marketplace account with very obviously fishy profiles. The first one was a FB profile of a dutch looking guy with full African name. The second profile, the writing was a copy paste of a pre-canned message and the guy was from the Ivory coast trying to pull the scam with his/her real profile.
I don't know how the scam works exactly because I never experimented accepting cash in envelops to start with but I can imagine couple of ways this can go wrong very quickly.
So if you are desperate to recover some cash selling your used goods beware!
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19.09.2022, 14:14
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| | | Re: Scam heads up while selling your used goods
Already a thread about this here: https://www.englishforum.ch/daily-li...ml#post3428088
With this explanation for how it works: | Quote: |  | | | Taken from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/faceb...-imdad-hussain | Quote: | | | |
Apparently the scam works like this. After the scammer has made you comfortable with a promise of cash in an envelope and paying for shipping he or she will ask you to pay for insurance of the envelope that is being delivered via the delivery company as this is a requirement by them however the buyer promises that the additional amount is also in the envelope so you do not have to worry about money out of your pocket.
A fake email purportedly from the delivery company will be sent with an account number where you have to deposit the insurance money and included is a fake tracking number of the envelope that has already been dispatched.
If you refuse to pay the scammer will start pleading with you that they are going to lose money on the envelope dispatch as it can not be cancelled now and eventually they will resort to threats if all else fails.
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19.09.2022, 17:34
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| | | Re: Scam heads up while selling your used goods
We've had this scam many times on Facebook Marketplace. It's annoying. We block them and move on. We also specify that we only accept payment via TWINT or IBAN, no cash. That helps sort the wheat from the chaff.
We mostly use Ricardo and Tutti when we're selling anything of value now, you get a lot less of that.
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19.09.2022, 19:37
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| | | Re: Scam heads up while selling your used goods
We only accept cash.
Tom
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20.09.2022, 09:35
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| | | Re: Scam heads up while selling your used goods
| Quote: | |  | | | We've had this scam many times on Facebook Marketplace. It's annoying. We block them and move on. We also specify that we only accept payment via TWINT or IBAN, no cash. That helps sort the wheat from the chaff.
We mostly use Ricardo and Tutti when we're selling anything of value now, you get a lot less of that. | | | | | Before you block them, it benefit others is your report the buyer to FB.
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20.09.2022, 10:54
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| | | Re: Scam heads up while selling your used goods
| Quote: | | | | | Before you block them, it benefit others is your report the buyer to FB. | | | | | Yes, we do this as well, thanks for the correction.
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20.09.2022, 11:36
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| | | Re: Scam heads up while selling your used goods
My cellar is now full of these couriers... it's becoming expensive feeding them while I await for a ransom to be paid by the scammers in order to release them.
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23.09.2022, 22:53
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| | | Re: Scam heads up while selling your used goods
You mean something like this  :
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