I’m trying to declutter and sell a few things via FB marketplace, but I noticed that there’s a scam going around. Here’s how it goes.
A person will ask you if the item is still available, normally the message will come between 12am and 2am. Weird.
You’ll respond saying yes, cash on delivery – usual story. Then they’ll say: “I’m just busy with work, but I’ll send a DPD driver to collect it with an envelope of money for you”.
Initially, that sounds fine right? Well, here’s the thing. After they get your address/email they send a fake email from “DPD” (or whichever courier service they’ve chosen) and that email will basically say that you (the seller) need to pay for insurance for the item before it can be collected.
Now anyone who’s dealt with couriers knows that this is bollocks, and if anything, the person who’s initiating the collection should pay insurance, if any.
The first time I saw this I knew it was crap so I cancelled the sale and told them to fly a kite.
But see, it kept happening – the same MO of “I’m just busy with work, I’ll send DPD”.
I got sick of it, and so the most recent time, I decided to play with them.
Here’s my conversation: https://imgur.com/a/mgQNmK0
I’m going to keep playing this game with these fuckers but need to get more creative, so give me fun ways to mess with them :p
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Click into the screenshot for full convo 🙂 [or go here ](https://imgur.com/a/mgQNmK0)
I love this. Thank you!
That’s pretty good, I love the tangible salt of the middle finger emoji
Fair play. The more of these fuckers time you waste the less time they have to take advantage of anyone else
Aha! The scammer becomes the scammee
Had someone send me exactly the same few first messages, told them to fuck off. Fucking scammers
Epic!
I’d love to know how they dox those scammers. I’ve watched a few YouTube videos where people troll the scammers and hack their computers, looks like great craic.
This is brilliant, I enjoyed reading this while drinking my morning coffee
I hate this scam. I put about half a dozen items on Done Deal. I got just one genuine message. I got about 7 or 8 of those scam messages.
Give them the address of the local Garda station for delivery
Give them the email address of one of the Healy-Raes, if you ever want to see this come up in the Dail you are guaranteed that a Healy-Rae will spend a few min roaring about it
There’s a website around people scamming the scammer. My favourite was from a decade or more ago when one lad got some Nigerians to hand write out the entirety of the first harry potter book.
https://419eater.com/html/cyril_ifey.htm
I hate these cunts. They plague me every time I put something up for sale.
Give them an address of a garda station
My favourite move is to pretend to be older, agree to what they want, but I can’t quite understand what they want me to do.
The fuckers get greedy when they think your old and confused cause that’s gravy time for these sad bastards, they get so greedy you can waste their whole day by making them explain every detail to you
Every 10-20 minutes, “which button do I click?”
They will lose their fucking minds when they realise they’ve been half a day messaging a lad who is doing his laundry and taking a moment now and them to keep them dangling.
The last russian fella I had for about four hours until I finally told him lol
Him:“You must enter your details!”
Me:“Do you like Vanessa Paradis?”
Him “What? No?”
Me: “How about a Paradis nuts son??”
Him: “BLYAT!”
It’s such a rewarding hobby, there needs to be a sub for posting results.
No done deal or adverts buyer worth his salt would pay extra or have the hassle of paying a courier to collect. You have to be suspicous of everything now.
JFC this is dry op.
If you’re looking for tips on messing with scammers, check out a youtube channel Kitboga.
He’s made a whole career out of messing with phone scammers, makes them believe he’s a 70 year old man, has sound effects, fake websites and loads more.
It’s great fun listening to them lose their fucking minds thinking they’re dealing with an old man who can’t use a computer and only wants to talk about fishing.
When it came to selling anything cash or money transfer on pick up, if they offered cash if I rounded off the asking price I’ll accept it but at the ATM and I’m with them or go into their bank otherwise they could easily pass me forged notes.
Offers from sell and buy sites if they offer more than the asking price it’s a scam, I think it’s the moneygram/western union scam. Revenge there are free to use plans for a surprize amazon box available on you tube, when opened it sets of a confetti bomb and smoke but thats in the US laws may differ and I think it’s for sneak thieves lifiting others packages.
I haven’t sold anything online. And I get those messages all the time. Pay anpost, amazon delivery. Q delivery, which was new. Pay here for your parcel. Usually a flurry of them, then they take a break for a while. Right back at it a few weeks later.
Wow you sure scammed him.
>normally the message will come between 12am and 2am. Weird.
They are operating from countries where this is normal working hours.
Not all heroes wear capes. Fair play.
It’s always a giveaway with the opening statement when it’s a vague “Is the ‘item’ still available” rather than a more normal “Hey, do you still have the keyboard?”
Sold some stuff last year on FB and was getting the very same messages. Sad it’s still happening.
This happened me on many occasions, first time I was selling a used car battery for £30. I live in Northern Ireland, I got an email from some guy in Edinburgh. He was going on about paying for delivery etc, I said the battery is £30 and to deliver it would cost the same, but he insisted on sending his courier lol that’s when I googled gumtree delivery scams, and twigged what was going on.
I’ve played with them since, along the same vein, ‘its ok I offer free delivery your in luck’ but they insist. They are everywhere, marketplace, gumtree..
Not exactly scamming him though.