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Thinking of selling something on Facebook Marketplace? This is the modus operandi of scammers (note by Miguel Vázquez in Fifth Power)

On Twitter, journalist Alejandra Ibarra revealed how Facebook Market Place scammers operate when trying to sell an iPhone 13 Credits: Fifth Power



On Twitter, journalist Alejandra Ibarra revealed how Facebook Marketplace scammers operate when trying to sell an iPhone 13

Miguel Vázquez

TRENDS 5/26/2022 4:50 p.m.

Over time, Facebook Marketplace It has become a great option for all those people who are looking for sell products of all kinds, or for users looking to get extra money for an item that they no longer use or exchange for a new one such as the cellphones. However, in this kind of online sales, exist scammers willing to take products without paying anything in return and a user of Twitter revealed his mode of operation.

How do Facebook Marketplace scammers operate?
On her Twitter account, the Mexican journalist Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul recounted her bad experience trying to sell an iPhone 13 on Marketplace Facebook, because far from finding a buyer, she ran into a network of people dedicated to scamming people.

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The young woman, a graduate in Political Science from ITAM, explained that by trying to sell her phone, she managed to learn how the fraudsters’ modus operandi works. As she said, the network is made up of at least three members: the one who coordinates, the one who executes and the person who makes contact with the seller.

The latter, identified as ‘Caro’, was the one who sent the young woman a direct message to ask about the product. Once she contacted her, she asked for her phone number “to better coordinate” and to talk privately about buying the phone.

“We talked for a while by DM, he asked me about the status of the cell phone, if I had details, how much was the last price. The normal, then. I replied to everything and she told me that she was interested. I told him where the delivery was and that’s where Jonathan came in,” she narrated.

According to his testimony, Caro told him that for security reasons it was not possible for them to meet for the delivery of the phone, as is customary in this type of purchase, where users meet at some point to exchange the product for money. For this reason, she indicated that her husband, identified as Jonathan, would make a bank transfer with the exact amount that the young woman requested, which was 19 thousand pesos. Later, a parcel service would pick up the cell phone.

Jonathan, who would be the coordinator of the scammers, sent him a direct message on WhatsApp and told him that he would deposit the money, and even sent him a photograph of the bank where he supposedly was to make the deposit.

The young woman narrated that Jonathan sent her the screenshot of the courier service that would pick up the phone and asked the young woman to go out to deliver it “because they were going to cancel the trip”, however, until this moment she had not yet made any Deposit.

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The journalist demanded that he send her the deposit receipt so that she could hand over the phone. The scammer sent a photograph of a deposit with the 19 thousand pesos. However, she was not fooled and called the bank to see if she had indeed received said transfer, since she noticed that the money appeared in the application with the legend “transaction”.

“The persistent calls start again, one after another. I warn you that I am checking if the money has already fallen. I go to my online banking, I check, and indeed the deposit is seen for 19 thousand pesos. But it only looks like a transaction, the money has not fallen into my account”.

While the scammer pressures the young woman to give the phone to the supposed Uber, the bank tells her that it is surely a scam because the payment was made with a check and it could take up to 24 hours for the money to drop. Likewise, they warn her that many times the original accounts do not have funds, so if she had handed over the phone, a day later she would have realized that the 19,000 pesos would never have been authorized by the financial institution.

“The threats begin, all by phone call. What is going to report me? That he will go to the Public Ministry. By message we only agreed on this, in which she calls me a scammer. And that’s it. The show breaks down. I go back to Facebook and see Carla’s profile. She is not married. Ing. Jonathan stops responding. The Uber I guess is gone. And I get three identical messages from other buyers. He is tired. I tell them I don’t feel like scams. They stop responding,” he concluded.

Facebook users report scams on Marketplace
Unfortunately, this would not be an isolated case, because on Facebook a large number of users have reported this type of scam for quite some time. It is enough to enter the search engine of the social network, enter the sentence scam in Marketplace and hundreds of publications about different scams will be displayed; all with this or similar modus operandi.

On Monday the 31st of this month, I published an iPhone through the Marketplace that my brother wanted to sell. A person named Ariel Jiménez contacted me saying that he was interested and told me that his father was going to contact me. They were super insistent with sending the cell phone without having deposited anything, I told them that I couldn’t send it to them until the money was in my account. They made the deposit and it came out as a check from another bank, the check was blank and the money never came into my account. These thieves robbed us, I was still sending him messages and he answered that the money would fall without a problem”, narrated a Facebook user.

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