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I saw this and it made me chuckle!

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FACEBOOK SELLING SCAMS

There are a lot of scams on Facebook selling pages and marketplace. Most are recognisable, if you know what to look for. Some top tips to avoid being scammed:

• Check out the profile of the seller. If it's new, has very little content and almost zero friends, it's probably a fake profile.

• If the price is too good to be true, it probably is!

• If the seller has closed off commenting and insists on communication only via messenger, it's because they want you all to themselves.

• If they want a deposit to 'hold the item', NEVER EVER pay for one. Jersey is small. If they are genuine, you can be anywhere on the island within 30 minutes.

Stay safe everyone!

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Anatomy of a "Courier Collect" Scam.

Today I allowed myself to be the victim of a scam attempt in order to gather information to help others spot them, and hopefully prevent anyone else falling victim. This type of scam involves the criminal contacting you after finding an advert for an item you are selling. After exchanging pleasantries, they attempt to get you to purchase ‘insurance’ which they tell you will be refunded. The way this play out is as follows:

1. You advertise an item for sale.
2. The criminal contacts you and asks if it is still available to buy.
3. After your confirmation, the criminal gives a story that they would like to purchase the item, but due to other commitments they cannot collect themselves, and instead, will send a courier who will bring cash and pay for the item on collection.
4. After you have agreed to the sale, and the cash on collection, the criminal adds that the ‘insurance’ fee has to be paid by you, and they will add the fee to the money the courier will deliver when collecting your item you are selling.
5. After obtaining your address and email, you receive an email purporting to be from a courier (in my case ‘DPD’), with a payment link enabling you to pay the ‘insurance’ fee.
6. If you pay the fee, then you lose the payment because the link payment goes into the account of the criminal.

The attached photos are from the conversation of my experience today, when I was contacted by a Facebook profile using the name ‘Fabrice Duah’ (photo attached). The photos used to create the profile actually belong to an American called Joe Cross, but that’s a different subject.
Even when I confronted the criminal, they still continued the script they follow until they dropped off the conversation. I reported the profile to Facebook and hopefully it will get banned.
Other than the information I managed to get from the criminal, the next best thing that came out of this was wasting an hour of their time that they couldn’t use on another victim. Please be careful online, and pass this on to anyone who may be susceptible to conmen.

I got this card last week from Trevor. What a lovely gesture. Stay safe everyone and stay home if you can.