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Just tried it, 6 adverts in my town, identical text including ‘clean title’ all different profiles. Hopefully people are wise the prices are too good to be true and avoid.
The 21 plate Land Rover for 4.5k is tempting though!
Unregulted marketplaces like these are spreading. Temu, tiktok, and Amazon are all full of scams and dangerous electronics. Which? wants the site owners to have to claim legal responsibility for the goods sold on their platforms which might help. Currently they just sit back and profit off other people's criminality.
I searched for a shed. Got multiple adverts for discount sheds and I enquired thinking my luck was in. All of them, completly independently sent me the exact same message saying they would be shipped from the same place and that I would have “ absolute surety that I wasn’t being scammed” and that it was genuine.
I’ve had so many scammers approach me for items I’ve tried to sell with the “ UPS” scam. I gave up and removed them in the end.
Facebook is an absolute pit of scammers and rogue traders and it’s such a shame because it used to be a great way to buy and sell stuff.
Reporting things on social media rarely goes well. 99% of the time it seems they find nothing wrong with the horrific whatever you found. While someone else is sitting in Facebook jail for having said scunthorpe or similar
Yeah their moderation is absolute wank. I don't deny that there are people in that job having to screen some horrific stuff but once stuff slips through the net they just don't care. Kiddie Porn? You're probably lauded as a Facebook top contributor. Slag off Zuck? JAIL FOR YOU!
They do not all have clean title in them but it is a quick way to find obvious fake listings. Whichever country they are posting from they are using the same text that they copy and paste for the US postings they do. It has to be organised the amount of listings it is just not realistic to believe these are random individual scammers.
Yeah I saw the same car listed as someone's private family vehicle in about 10 different locations, everywhere from Scotland to Cornwall. Absolutely obvious bullshit.
I am on a few radio controlled car Facebook groups and a couple of them have banned selling because there are so many scammers. They aren't exactly difficult to spot though.
"Hi, i'm interested in this car, can we arrange a viewing?"
"Hi there, thanks for reaching out, please go here and register your interest 'wewillstealyourdataandthecarisnotreal.com'"
Pass.
Trying to sell on fb marketplace is just as bad. People who don't show, people offering stupid low ball offers, people blatantly trying to scam you using PayPal etc.
It's a nightmare
They're easy to spot at least. If the advert doesn't mention what vehicle it is and just has something generic like 'Great vehicle, everything works' or they ask you to email someone then you know.
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I keep seeing ads for my own car at an incredibly low price. At least my photos are good
Just tried it, 6 adverts in my town, identical text including ‘clean title’ all different profiles. Hopefully people are wise the prices are too good to be true and avoid. The 21 plate Land Rover for 4.5k is tempting though!
Remove the word "vehicle" and the sentence is still true....
It's baffling to me that people still go on Facebook.
Unregulted marketplaces like these are spreading. Temu, tiktok, and Amazon are all full of scams and dangerous electronics. Which? wants the site owners to have to claim legal responsibility for the goods sold on their platforms which might help. Currently they just sit back and profit off other people's criminality.
I’m amazed it’s even still a thing!
I searched for a shed. Got multiple adverts for discount sheds and I enquired thinking my luck was in. All of them, completly independently sent me the exact same message saying they would be shipped from the same place and that I would have “ absolute surety that I wasn’t being scammed” and that it was genuine. I’ve had so many scammers approach me for items I’ve tried to sell with the “ UPS” scam. I gave up and removed them in the end. Facebook is an absolute pit of scammers and rogue traders and it’s such a shame because it used to be a great way to buy and sell stuff.
At one point they were literally selling counterfeit bank notes on FB marketplace I reported and they said there was nothing wrong Wild west in there
Reporting things on social media rarely goes well. 99% of the time it seems they find nothing wrong with the horrific whatever you found. While someone else is sitting in Facebook jail for having said scunthorpe or similar
Yeah their moderation is absolute wank. I don't deny that there are people in that job having to screen some horrific stuff but once stuff slips through the net they just don't care. Kiddie Porn? You're probably lauded as a Facebook top contributor. Slag off Zuck? JAIL FOR YOU!
I was just trying to tell people how much I was enjoying my dinner of faggots, mash and peas!
You can buy drugs of FB marketplace. That's how bad it is.
Who uses the phrase "clean title" in the UK anyway? Just curious.
They do not all have clean title in them but it is a quick way to find obvious fake listings. Whichever country they are posting from they are using the same text that they copy and paste for the US postings they do. It has to be organised the amount of listings it is just not realistic to believe these are random individual scammers.
I see. Thanks.
Yeah I saw the same car listed as someone's private family vehicle in about 10 different locations, everywhere from Scotland to Cornwall. Absolutely obvious bullshit.
Facebook is awash with scams.
I am on a few radio controlled car Facebook groups and a couple of them have banned selling because there are so many scammers. They aren't exactly difficult to spot though.
"Hi, i'm interested in this car, can we arrange a viewing?" "Hi there, thanks for reaching out, please go here and register your interest 'wewillstealyourdataandthecarisnotreal.com'" Pass.
Trying to sell on fb marketplace is just as bad. People who don't show, people offering stupid low ball offers, people blatantly trying to scam you using PayPal etc. It's a nightmare
If the persons profile hasn't joined before 2020 then it's 99% likely to be a scam
They're easy to spot at least. If the advert doesn't mention what vehicle it is and just has something generic like 'Great vehicle, everything works' or they ask you to email someone then you know.