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CaptainYooh · 02-12-2022, 03:58 PM

Whenever we list an item for sale on Kijiji or FB Marketplace, within a few minutes there is a message from someone offering to buy the item at full price plus $50 for shipping to a relative. No negotiations. It is always the same. Always comes from someone with a very common name (Gerry Baker, Melissa Turner, James Winter etc.) and the account on FB or Instagram showing a few pics of an older person. This is a 100% scam, undoubtedly. Messages are always the same and accounts are fake. We block them immediately and report back to the platform (although, seemingly they do nothing about it). But I just can't understand how their scam actually works? Anyone knows?

02-12-2022, 03:58 PM	#1
CaptainYooh Franchise Player Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Calgary Exp:	Weird Scam Whenever we list an item for sale on Kijiji or FB Marketplace, within a few minutes there is a message from someone offering to buy the item at full price plus $50 for shipping to a relative. No negotiations. It is always the same. Always comes from someone with a very common name (Gerry Baker, Melissa Turner, James Winter etc.) and the account on FB or Instagram showing a few pics of an older person. This is a 100% scam, undoubtedly. Messages are always the same and accounts are fake. We block them immediately and report back to the platform (although, seemingly they do nothing about it). But I just can't understand how their scam actually works? Anyone knows? __________________ "An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think." Georg Hegel “To generalize is to be an idiot.” William Blake