That's pretty ballsy to buy anything that needs to be shipped from Facebook Marketplace. I wouldn't.
How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)
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#102Re: How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)
#103> Instead of closing it, I pretended that I couldn’t see the case on my end and even sent doctored screenshots of the case not showing up. You can handle a potential scammer without behaving like a scammer yourself. You might want to be known as a person who's always honest, not a person who tries to decide when it's OK to act dishonestly. (In this case, it sounds like the writer guessed correctly that the other part…
Thanks, Immanuel Kant
Re: How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)
#104"Thanks PayPal :)"
- Interesting take away after this story.
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#105> The next morning, I called PayPal and asked them how the seller could’ve opened a case on my behalf against themselves. They weren’t sure. That's scary :/
I think this is the worst part of the event. PayPal is the most annoying service I use because it asks for 2FA for every damn action. So how could they take that action? Surely if they logged in they left breadcrumbs? The post is mildly infuriating because it doesn’t even try to answer very important that question.
Agreed on the yikes here - this should be a high priority issue from paypal's side to address.
This seems like a HUGE loophole
Re: How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
I knew a woman that legit would frequently leave her purse in her passenger seat. Told her it was only a matter of time before someone broke in, but she just insisted that she hated carrying it around, and would just pull out her credit card from it when needed. Sure enough, her window got smashed and her purse was stolen, and she was all Surprised Pikachu. She legit didn't think it would ever happen. And you know wh…
I don't know how "victim blaming" became such a taboo. There are plenty of cases where the victim could have avoided the problem entirely by taking easy, sensible precautions, but nowadays if you point those things out (for the benefit of future potential victims), you're an evil Victim Blamer. People have agency--we're not just helpless sheep walking through life getting inevitably victimized by things totally beyon…
It became taboo because people victim-blame in cases where it's entirely unwarranted.
For example, in cases of rape, some people will ask what she was wearing, as if that actually has anything to do with it.
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#107> The next morning, I called PayPal and asked them how the seller could’ve opened a case on my behalf against themselves. They weren’t sure. That's scary :/
I think this is the worst part of the event. PayPal is the most annoying service I use because it asks for 2FA for every damn action. So how could they take that action? Surely if they logged in they left breadcrumbs? The post is mildly infuriating because it doesn’t even try to answer very important that question.
Eh, I'm sure PayPal could see how it happened but the relatively low level support person wouldn't have access to such information.
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#108I feel like the scammers just had his PayPal creds and this is how they extract money from it. If they just transfered it PayPal would be more likely to react swiftly to the complaint, this method might stymie someone completely.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
s/still think/ever thought/
Hey, before Paypal buying on eBay was sending someone a money order or a check. It was a million times better / more trustworthly / more reliable / faster.
I don’t like PayPal but I am impressed by their ability to stay popular. I think the first “don’t use this company, they’ll help scammers screw you” horror story I heard was before the turn of the century, and it’s not like they didn’t have competition at any point but they managed to get locked into a lot of people’s minds as the best option.
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#110When I do FB marketplace I go cash and in-person. It lets you assess the quality of whatever you're buying.
This is the way. Does FB Marketplace even have any sort of reputation system? Or are you banking entirely on the age of the account? I'm a heavy Facebook user, but I avoid FB Marketplace like the plague. Just seems like a great place to get scammed.
>I avoid FB Marketplace like the plague. Just seems like a great place to get scammed
There are scams but I think they are avoidable.
My next door neighbor has spent many thousands of dollars on FB Marketplace and has never been scammed. He buys tools and construction supplies and equipment. Usually gets the stuff 90%+ off retail price and sometimes free.
I think the key is dealing in person.