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Fraudulent sellers attempt everything from selling counterfeit and broken goods to posting fake rental properties. Before making a Facebook Marketplace purchase, familiarize yourself with these scams.
SEE MORE: Seller dodges Facebook Marketplace scam, only to fall into another In the meantime, Bergen County prosecutor Mark Musella is urging people to take safe steps when meeting with strangers ...
Those who sell on Facebook Marketplace should be aware of a scam alert issued by the Better Business Bureau. The alert warns of Zelle scams on Facebook Marketplace in which a fraudulent buyer ...
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 package redirection scam is a form of e-commerce fraud, where a malicious actor manipulates a shipping label, to trick the mail carrier into delivering the package to the wrong address. This is usually done through product returns to make the merchant believe that they mishandled the return package, and thus provide a refund without the item ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
A scam letter is a document, distributed electronically or otherwise, to a recipient misrepresenting the truth with the aim of gaining an advantage in a fraudulent manner. Origin [ edit ]
The latest Facebook Marketplace scam to watch out for: a scheme that sold rented cars for cash on the online secondhand shopping platform.