Another Is this a scam Q?

I am selling something on FB marketplace and the buyer wanted to do bank transfer, no problem, done it many times before so send him bank details. He comes back to me saying his business acount requires my email address for security. Never heard of this before, is it legit?

Sounds dodgy to me

Bank transfer is irreversible I’m 99.9% sure so can’t see an issue

Send them a fake one, maybe one digit wrong and see what comes back? And if they say oooh that’s not registered to you it may be genuine?  Then up to you if you want to apologise and tell them you missed a digit and proceed…..

You do not need an email address to send money to a bank account – business or otherwise. Tell the buyer it’s no longer for sale and move on.

Scam.

Block.

Move on.

Is this still available?

wots ur lowist?

Swap 4 fishin tackle m8?

I had one a few weeks ago on FB when I was trying to sell an old camera. They wanted me to post it to them before the money had cleared. The money had obviously never been sent in the first place. The address they provided was some cornershop in Bradford that accepts parcels.

Once you click on their profile it’s quite easy to tell if it’s a fake/hacked account.

He said he is sending his wife to collect it so I told him to send her with  cash or no deal.

I actually had to do this once when selling some car parts. It was because I was getting paid into Wise and it’s supposed to be only for transferring from friends and family. As it happened it was a friend so it wasn’t too awkward.

@petefromearth yeah I should have looked sooner. Definately dodgy!

I made my first purchase from Facebook Marketplace last October and the guy said that because he didn’t have Paypal would I be willing to pay via bank transfer. It was for a 2nd hand Exposure Joystick, so not a huge amount of money ~£70 and I thought the guy sounded like a mountain biker, hence obvious ‘good guy’ in the messages we exchanged.

Won’t be falling for that one again. Once I realised I’d been scammed, I tried reporting the guy’s profile to Facebook. They weren’t interested in the slightest.

I’m sick of platforms totally washing their hands of this stuff. I was looking for a 27.2mm seatpost last week on eBay and happened across some of those fake ‘Ritchey WCS’ Aliexpress ones. Reported them as fake because, well, why not and eBay messaged back after a few days saying they didn’t see a problem with the listing.

they’ll email you (to the address you provided) an image or email “from teh bank” showing you the transfer has DEFINITELY taken place… it just might not have shown in your account yet.

But it’s DEFINITELY taken place. 100% legit  😉

Your options are to:

1 – ignore

2 – mess about with them. Given tehm an email address (burner email?) and see what they send. Then keep pretending you’ve posted the item. Or get their address, print out the email content, put that in an envelope, and just pop that in a postbox without a stamp. see if they pay the charge..

DrP

1 – ignore

2 – mess about with them. Given tehm an email address (burner email?) and see what they send. Then keep pretending you’ve posted the item. Or get their address, print out the email content, put that in an envelope, and just pop that in a postbox without a stamp. see if they pay the charge..

If you go for option 2 post it on here though yeah?

As ever,

If you have to start a thread on STW asking “is this a scam?” the answer is “yes.” It’s the counterpoint to tabloid headlines posed as questions, the answer is always “no.”  COULD TURMERIC CAUSE CANCER?  No.

DrP has it, you’ll receive a confirmation email telling you you’ve been transferred a squillion pounds, but it’ll take an amount of time to appear on your account because that’s totally how banks work in the 21st Century.

 He comes back to me saying his business acount requires my email address for security.

“I don’t have an email address.”

Should anyone care, this thread prompted me into getting down a blog post that I’ve had in my brane for weeks.

You Do Phishing Tests? Redux

Since I told them it was cash on collection or no deal they haven’t been back in touch.

Cougar

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Should anyone care, this thread prompted me into getting down a blog post that I’ve had in my brane for weeks

That was a good read, thanks.

One correction though, and a mistake almost everyone makes. King **** wasn’t an idiot trying to hold back the tide. He did indeed go to the beach and command the tide to recede, which of course it didn’t. He was trying to prove to his people that he was not all-powerful and that there are some things that even a king can’t do. He succeeded, but history now remembers him as a bit of a plonker.

Thank you.

To the best of my knowledge it’s an apocryphal tale and he didn’t do anything of the sort at all.  History is hazy on such matters from a millennium ago, which also is how we wound up with religion.

As ever,

If you have to start a thread on STW asking “is this a scam?” the answer is “yes.”

Whilst generally I’d agree, I had one a while back that made me ask but turned out it wasn’t.

Guy wanted to buy something, agreed a price, then they wanted to pay by cheque.

Bounced cheque liely I thought but seemed genuine. I agreed but said I’d delay postage until X days after (whatever they say is the time to properly clear, not just show in the account).

Anyway a few days later, a cheque with a nice handwritten note appears and all went very smoothly.

Not really a lesson there other than protect yourself with the process, but don’t assume unusual requests are always a scam.