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This article originally appeared on GOBankingRates.com: 8 Facebook Marketplace Scams To Watch Out For. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. Holiday Shopping Guides. See all. AOL.
The alert warns of Zelle scams on Facebook Marketplace in which a fraudulent buyer attempts to buy a big-ticket item using Zelle, the popular peer-to-peer lending app, to make payment.
This week, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department arrested three suspects in the scheme that sold rented vehicles illegally on Facebook's popular shopping platform for used goods.
Charity fraud, also known as a donation scam, is the act of using deception to obtain money from people who believe they are donating to a charity.Often, individuals or groups will present false information claiming to be a charity or associated with one, and then ask potential donors for contributions to this non-existent charity.
The scam may extend to the creation of Web sites for the bogus brand, which usually sounds similar to that of a respected loudspeaker company. They will often place an ad for the speakers in the "For sale" Classifieds of the local newspaper, at the exorbitant price, and then show the mark a copy of this ad to "verify" their worth. [citation needed]
A leaflet from a commercial collecting company. Clothing scam companies are companies or gangs that purport to be collecting used good clothes for charities or to be working for charitable causes, when they are in fact working for themselves, selling the clothes overseas and giving little if anything to charitable causes. [1]
Prosecutors said an investigation led them to discover a pattern of various other Marketplace robberies in northern New Jersey that involved phony Facebook accounts selling Playstation 5 devices.
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