Lately, certain crimes have been arising from social networks and in view of this, it is worth knowing how scammers commit fraud through Facebook Marketplace.
Alejandra Ibarra is a journalist and has shared through a Twitter thread how criminals take advantage of online sales and develop these harmful actions in one of the social networks most consumed by the public.
How do they commit fraud in the Facebook marketplace?
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The first thing that happens is that some prospective buyer sends you a message to say that he is interested in what you are selling, although he does not do so from the Facebook Marketplace ad and then goes to WhatsApp “to make it easier to communicate or organize.”
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Once the place, amount and method of payment are agreed upon, it is when they begin to commit the corresponding frauds, something that begins when the other party affirms that it is better not to see each other for security reasons and asks for a transfer to be made and that the product be picked up by a parcel service.
At that point some people will think that the deal is done and deliver the product. However, Alejandra Ibarra did not trust and chose to call her bank and there they explained to her that it could be a fraud attempt because generally “checks take 24 hours to clear and many times the original accounts do not have funds and there is no cash. the pay”.
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