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I m selling a few things on the above, loads of scammers 're couriers and any old excuse not to come and collect. Is the scam they have your bank account details for sending the transfer to, name and home address for sending the courier to. Then I suppose the raid on your account starts.
Not fallen for any but they are v good at what they do. Certainly stepped up a level from the usual suspects.
And your point is ?
Old news and repeated on here all the time.
I think you get asked to pay an insurance charge for the courier or something as a fee before hand. That's where they get the money.
Likely "advanced fee fraud," yes.
Does it matter? You know it's a scam, Facebook Marketplace offers exactly the same protections as sticking up a card on the ads board in the supermarket.
I thought that but it's not actually the case (now). Maybe so for local buy/sell pages etc but actual Marketplace seems somewhat more legit and they do offer Buyer & Seller protection similar I guess to how PayPal do (although not bothered yet to read through the T&Cs to see exactly what the craic is)Facebook Marketplace offers exactly the same protections as sticking up a card on the ads board in the supermarket.
Ok thanks for confirming, funny thing is first buyer I was convinced was a scammer so met him locally, he paid in full as promised, the actual intended scammers really are v good I can see how they succeed.
I just think everyone who responds to any advert of mine is a scammer.
One bloke was the usual when I was flogging a bike. 'I'm on an oil rig in the North Sea & can't access my bank account, I'll send a courier for it blah blah blah' I just said, 'make sure the courier's got £1400 in his hand in real money & he can have it, that's how it works pal'. No sign of him obviously.
The other one I've had is where some Chinese sounding person messages & says, 'Is the item the same as this' with some link to click on. I just say, 'yeah but yours has a bigger knob on the end'.
Essel - I m on a roll, sold 2 things today that would have gone to landfill. Just be prepared to sift through the 20 scam messages and lowball offers to find the genuine buyer.
Funnily enough I had to Google marketplace scam and yes, they were all there.
someone took my add of Autotrader last week and put it on eBay saying the engine had seized and it was down for 20% of my value. Not sure how this works, eBay took it down after me threatening the police
yep I get the dpd courier scam regularly. sometimes I have a chuckle qnd string them along. Once apparently I was going to be couriers and envelope with £1million in cash.
anyways best thing to do is report so the account is taken down.