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Facebook Marketplace Scam Reports & Reviews (45)

- Monticello, MN, USA
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I put a smartwatch on Facebook market and got an message from a Troy Marrill interested in the watch. Saw the profile he seemed pretty legit until he supposedly transfered money from my account to his. I got series of emails. Two of them asking for money in order to make the transaction go through and he would refund my money, then I got another onefor 300 that would pass some government. The emails in the email of government contact was an outlook email and the Zelle Pay services was an gmail account (below). I want my money back.

[email protected]

Government contact: Mary Benard

email: [email protected]

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Consumer was on Facebook marketplace and was looking to purchase a rust free 2004 Range Rover for $1200. The consumer messaged the seller and got a response back which had her email someone else. The seller wanted her to go to Target and purchase 6, $200 eBay gift cards. The seller also told them that they would have to either take pictures of the codes or call them and give them the codes over the phone. The "sellers name" was Christine Wilson and she supposedly lived in Nebraska. The consumer mentioned that the seller was apparently going over to Ukraine to help with the war effort. The consumer mentioned that the email address was [email protected]. ScamPulse.com strongly encouraged the consumer to not buy gift cards and end communication with the seller. 

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- Cedar Falls, IA, USA
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Facebook Marketplace - vehicle sales

Relatively new car with low mileage and low price

Message seller using Facebook Messaging

Auto-generated message is received - "contact seller at, i.e., [email protected]" for details

I contacted the seller

Seller sent an Odometer certificate and a "Facebook Checkout" Buyer Protection certificate listing all the details of how to purchase the vehicle

I completed everything required - paid $2,000 for the vehicle using the Bitcoin ATM

I was informed (after all payments had been received by Facebook Checkout) that their system was "Holding" my transaction because of a sytem problem

I was informed the transaction would not be released for 15 days

The seller informs me 15 days is too long and to cancel the transaction

I'm unable to cancel the transaction

I never hear from anyone again

I lost $2,000

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- Peyton, CO, USA
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Buyer asked for a verification code screen shot to verify I was a real sale/ person. I didn't get it at first. I did send the code and shot. Buyer asked again I said I'm done. They them left the chat.

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- Prospect, KY, USA
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This scammer posed as a customer wanting to buy my baby crib. Stated they were going to buy the crib, asked for my address and gave me a time. Then said they were going to send me the money via venmo. Told me to upgrade my account to a business account and said i would receive an email through my spam account which I did. The email said they needed to send me an addition 400 dollars to upgrade yet upgrading the account on venmo app was actually free. After they asked it again, I reported the scammer and blocked them. I’m just worried because they have my address now and said they were coming by tomorrow at 5pm.

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- Sunset, LA, USA
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The person posted a washer and dryer and refrigerator for sale. I just got a place and was in need. I sent them a message about it being available. I sent them to money to hold until I got off. Next thing they block me on Facebook and a lady came forth and told me it was a scam the same person did it to them. I paid them on cash app and then refused to send me back my money when I requested it back

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- Punxsutawney, PA, USA
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I was trying to sell a sofa online. Was contacted on Facebook Marketplace buy the person. I told them they could have had the sofa for free. They wanted to pay they said they would send the money through zelle. To make sure it went through they put extra and they wanted the extra refunded back. It wasn't exactly working. Until I was given two email addresses I have yet to obtain from PayPal. They got away with this on PayPal twice. They were pressuring me for more. Realized I was scammed I was gotten a hold of by my bank (I was planning on calling them). I was very new to Zelle and shouldn't had used an app I wasn't that aware of. Bank has started fraud charges.

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- Louisville, KY, USA
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Hello, I was contacted by "Rodney Joseph" through Facebook Marketplace on Dec. 30 interested in making a transaction. We agreed to a cashier's check for $2300 and he sent that on Jan 3rd which I received on Jan 7th. I deposited this check the same day at my local Chase branch where they said everything was fine and I should see the funds the next day. The funds did clear and everything was fine. Rodney contacted me again a few days later saying his wife died during surgery which I knew about his "wife" and wanted me to send back his money since his wife had passed. This was understandable and he asked me to Zelle it to him which I did; all $2300. Then on Jan 12th, I was informed by a Chase notification saying the cashier's check was deemed fictitious and $2300 was removed from my account sending me into -$1816 overdraft. Why were the funds available if it was a fake check? I lost a lot of money bc Chase could not tell me it was a fake check? No one wants to help: the police, Chase, Zelle, the bank from the cashier's check doesn't care either. This isn't chump change to me.

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Selling something on FB Marketplace and someone asked for my phone # to send a code to make sure I was seller….

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- Silverthorne, CO, USA
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Trying to sell a couch on Facebook Marketplace so posted an ad-got several messages thru Facebook Messenger from individuals purporting to be very interested-they asked for my phone number which unfortunately I gave them-they in turn sent a verification code to make sure I was “real”-they claimed they couldn’t verify my phone number-please send another phone number-I gave one “buyer” my husbands phone number so now they have his as well.

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- Minneapolis, MN, USA
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asked for verification code on a fb marketplace ad... husband gave out his phone number

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- Minneapolis, MN, USA
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I submitted a household item to sell on Facebook Marketplace. I received 3 interested parties, two asked for my phone number which I denied. The third asked if I had Zelle to which I replied I didn't, but I had Venmo or cash. The buyer said they would send me the money via Venmo but would do it as a business transaction, to save both buyer and seller. I replied that I didn't have a business account with Venmo and therefore couldn't receive this. I received an email I thought was Venmo ([email protected]) that said I could receive the amount listed if I made a Venmo business account, which I did. Then I received an email from the phishing email again thinking it was Venmo that said the seller desposited an extra amount of money so that the account could be processed, and I was being asked to deposit this amount via Venmo to Venmo's agents to process the account. The person on facebook messager stated they had gone through the same process, as I had expressed feelings of being scammed multiple times and that the process was very tedious just to receive the original payment. I had to sent snapshots of the transactions to the Venmo phishing email as well, I was being asked to pay for government fee, IMF fee, account fees, and was "assured" that the money was just to hold and then would credit back to my account. The real Venmo started not allowing my payments to be sent--which I thought was just due to my internet at home. I then sent money via PayPal, at this point I'm very concerned that this isn't correct--I reached out to Venmo via my app to verify this, to which I was told was a scam. My bank had put a flagged one of the deposits as fraudulent, but was assured by the phishing email that it was not. I was told that I had sent it to the wrong email for PayPal which then clued me in that I was being victim to a phishing scam. Venmo through the secure chat flagged the charges for dispute. I notified my bank of the fraudulent charge that came through my account, I froze all my credit cards at this time, my Paypal account was flagged for suspicious activity and put on limited account. I notified PayPal of the phishing scam charges, and they filed two claims. Both Venmo and one claim from PayPal were determined as normal activity and allowed the funds to go through, after I had sent proof of phishing emails, both Venmo and Paypal encouraged me to reach out to those scammer accounts to ask them to return the money, I did but know that those messages will go unanswered. Very frustrating that Venmo and PayPal allowed those to go through, I've now lost 1000 dollars from this. I filed a claim to Federal Trade Commission and will be sending a fraud report my state Attorney General's office.

These emails are on ones I kept from the snapshots to send on Venmo or PayPal: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

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- Harrodsburg, KY, USA
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I had an item listed on facebook marketplace. A person (Deirdre Newman) who was supposedly from Harrodsburg Ky, messaged me. She said she was interested in my item. She said for her protection, she wanted to send me a code. She wanted my phone number. I gave her the phone number and the code, unfortunately i had not read the message that came with the code, that you should not give out this code before doing so. It sounded suspicious and i googled this whole scenario and found it was a scam. She said the number i gave her didn't work and wanted another number. I reported her Facebook account.

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- Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Buyer Steve Kuhn (https://www.facebook.com/steven.ku.353) expressed interest in camera lens sold on Facebook Marketplace. Though it is marked Local Sale, he contacted me from Aschersleben, Germany to purchase for a "very close friend." He provided her mailing address ******* ****** ******** *** ******* *** ************ ** ******. She has a Facebook page as well (https://www.facebook.com/judy.mozier.1/)

He requested Zelle specifically for money transfer and then requested both my phone number and email to complete the transaction. When the Zelle payment request came through, it came from: [email protected]. And stated that I needed to increase my account limit by becoming a Business Account through Zelle. The request was for me to send Steve Kuhn $400, then he would deposit $1000 ($600 lens + $400) in my account.

I responded that this was not a legitimate request, and I declined to further this transaction. He replied OK.

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I was selling my daughter's bed on Facebook marketplace place. The person responded and said they were out of town but would send their son to pick up bed. They said they would pay by zelle and to send them my zelle info. And address of where to pick up. Then I received an email that they had paid but money was held because they were a business account and I wasn't. That the buyer would have to send more money so my account can be authorized as business, then I'd have to refund the $300 before we can both get paid. I didn't catch on, so I tried to refund the money using my zelle account but thank God it didn't go through. I was sent another email saying I could refund it another way, that's when it downed on me that this was probably a scam. But they already had my email, address and phone number. So I am worried, but nothing God can't help me fix. So Iam sharing in hopes no one else goes through this.

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Asked for verification code ms then told me the code already verify asked for a secondary number which I denied ms then never heard from it

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It was the basic Facebook marketplace scam where they send an email saying they made payment and the email asks for another payment which the scammer tries to collect the difference from you, but never actually sent anything.

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Received a message on Facebook Marketplace regarding a child's dress I'm selling. Everything seemed fine until they asked where I'd like to meet up so they can have their son pick it up because they're "currently out of town now for a business trip" First red flag. Second red flag was when they said their son would contact me once "payments clears" then asked if I have Zelle so they can make the payment now, because their son doesn't have a bank for them to make payment. I had to look up what Zelle was. Instant Block!

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I received a message on Facebook Marketplace regarding a dress I'm selling. They asked if the "product" was still available as well as the price (which is clearly on my post). I responded that the dress is available and the price is $150. They responded with the following which was an immediate red flag:

"Perfect ?? I'll take but I would like to come tomorrow but I'm currently busy with work, I would send a DPD letter carrier to your home to give you your money in cash and collect the item."

I responded back saying they could come to my office and indicated my business name, which handles scams, etc. I didn't think they would respond after that but then I received this:

"Perfect it works to complete the transaction, I need your

Name / Surname

Address / City :

Postal code / Amount :

Email address :

Visit time :"

I then blocked them.

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Posted items for sale on Facebook, and have gotten at least messages from fake/newly made accounts, all asking for my phone number to call me. I immediately blocked each of them. Finally I decided to entertain them and ask why they wanted my number, and they replied with very broken English that there were a lot of scammer sellers. Got blocked after replying "no."

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