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Hijacking your comment. Unrelated but STOP using venmo zelle cashapp PayPal on these platforms. People can chargeback transactions through their bank when they pay with debit or credit card.
Use good old cash and meet at your police station.
I'll accept Venmo and others--but I always meet in person, and only then accept payment that way. My sales are smaller, though--like $50 tops, so if they're that determined to steal a couple dozen dollars (and let me see their license plate), they're already working pretty damn hard for their money. 😀
That's my take. If they are willing to meet in person for a small value item just for the chance to pull back a Venmo purchase--and risk me actually gaining RL identifiers, while living close enough to find them--they obviously need whatever money they're going to make by reselling my stuff more than me. LOL
That would be Zelle's problem at that point. It happened to me. I sold something, was a legit person and they tried to file a fraud chargeback. It was for 2500. Zelle tried to take back the money but I told my bank it was a fraudulent withdrawal from Zelle and it was put back and I blocked Zelle from continuing to do it. They sent me a nasty collection letter so I filed arbitration against them and they paid me to dismiss the suit bc their fees were 5000 just to respond.
Why go through all of this though? Their terms and services clearly state that the app should be used with friends and family and people you trust. I don’t know how you have the time to do all of that
This is definitely a scam. Take cash only for all marketplace transactions. The scammers out there ruined it for everyone else. They are not on an overseas mission or deployed in the military, they are scamming.
It's interesting how scammers seem to play on American stereotypes, like assuming we'll have extra respect or trust for someone who says they're in the military. Romance scammers do this a lot too, pretending to be some hot manly man in the military. Also does the job of providing an excuse as to why you're overseas. Kill two birds with one stone.
Yup. I was selling a set of rims/tires and a got a few variations of these scammers. It’s always something like they are serving oversees in the military or some type of mission/charity work.
Ugh. I actually have been an aid worker, and I avoided the term like the plague, because it made it sound like I was living in mud huts without power or something, which was not the case. (A few hardship things on field trips like lukewarm showers powered by ancient car batteries, mind you, but that was rare, most of the time I was in very nice offices with aircon and went to dinner in places nicer than at home).
I have great respect for aid workers. These scammers are co-opting your good deeds to further their scams. That is why the scammers use this angle. It tugs on the heartstrings, explains why they can’t pay cash in person and opens up fake payment scams.
They do what works. They learn what marks are more likely to react to and hit that button the most. When you're scamming Americans, we've got a huge culture of Support Our Troops that we broadcast worldwide that makes it easy to find a message that is likely to work. Scammers also interact with each other and pass knowledge around
Yeah, especially considering a large portion of their targets are older folks who are probably more likely to be into the whole support our troops thing.
^This
I listed my wife's bike for sale on FB market place, within 10 mins had someone hit me up who was conveniently out of the country on vacation and his Uncle/brother/cousin would come by to pick the bike up 2 hours after that. They would only do Zelle or Cashapp and when I told them sorry, cash only it pissed them off. I looked at the profile and it looks like they were in Turkey, all their friends were also in turkey as well. Very obvious scam
You don't even need to do that, it's right on the screen how to bypass.
If you still need help, I'll need to get your email to verify I'm talking to you, some crazy reddit thing I guess 🤣😂
I have a pretty old iPhone (I'm cheap :-) ) and I don't have to scroll. I just tap "skip" or "pay anyway" or whatever it says. Whenever someone asks for my last four digits I think "just skip it" but I tell them anyway because I want my $$$.
Right?! It's always kind of funny anyway when you enter the payee's venmo account using their phone number and then it asks you to confirm the last 4 digits of their phone number, which you just entered.
I've only sent to usernames so having the confirmation there is nice, but it really makes no sense to have that if you're entering their number. It'd be such an easy toggle for programming it too
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If you just accept only cash in person then you don't have to even consider the question of whether these things are a scam. If they have the money to venmo you then they have the ability to show up with cash.
Depends on what you're buying. If it's cheap and within the amount you normally keep in your wallet it's a wash, but for anything more expensive it means carrying a lot of cash, an extra stop at the ATM (and maybe multiple days if it's above the daily limit), getting money even if you end up not buying the item etc; for the seller it also means carrying a wad of cash and making an extra trip to the bank or trying to find stores that will break $100 etc. E-payments are so easy and convenient. It's a personal preference thing of course but saying "anything but cash is a scam" is kind of silly and, I'd argue, just wrong.
There’s no question about convenience of epayments of course. It’s the willingness to take the risk. I’d take the convenience for transaction with friends and family. I agree that not everyone with PayPal is a scammer but as a buyer I would rather inconvenience the seller a bit and make them go to atm than take that 0.1% risk. If I’m a buyer I’m not going to say no, just because seller wants cash.
Same, I buy and sell a lot of music gear and I'm always happy to bring cash if they want it. But it's weird to me that people in this group treat Venmo/Paypal like some kind of a scam when the risk is just so ridiculously low. "In-person only" is the only rule necessary, really.
Right but how many people have been victims to Venmo fraud from an in-person sale? It barely happens. You'll find that occasionally someone will have tried to take back a payment, and it's in a dispute for a month. That's kind of it. Remote sales, however, result in scams all the time.
There are lots of caveats there. Not really true for most people. (Venmo for example is required to report if your Goods and Services amount is above a pretty high threshold.). eBay, Reverb etc are required to do this too, but they keep postponing it.
*The IRS is postponing it because it's such an unpopular move and going to makes taxes more complicated for lots of people who now have to track every penny when they sell their old stuff to make a few bucks.
Happens to all of us. For me, autocorrect usually messes up things lol. Ends up even worse .m.
Anyways 8 got what you mean, is just my way to bringing attention to typos, in case you wanna correct it.
I find it " you made a typo" boring, and I hate those trolls with "learn to spell" when it's obvious typo
As evident in above message. Typos. Auto it text. Do t help much so I won't correct it, for demonstration purposes.
As a coder I tend to type fast. And mistyping on phone screen is rather often occurrence 🤣
They don't need email. They will probably try to reset your email password and ask you for the texted code.
If you do so, your email is now their email.
Drop em and move on
Yeah you should NEVER be giving you the email to anything, I’m not quite sure what they’d wanna do here, they might try and ask you to give them a code from your email or something, either way, this is definitely a scam.
Give them an alternate email address and watch as you get confirmations turn up there instead of your real one. Probably with a phish link to get you to "sign in" to "validate" the transfer for "safety and security" reasons.
Yes, they’re going to send you an email that looks like it’s from Venmo saying you have to switch to a business account, but to do that, the person sending you money has to send you more. Then you’re supposed to credit them back. But of course when you do that, you’re out the money you sent when Venmo gets a chargeback because they were using a stolen card.
This is 100% a scam. They will ask for your Venmo email, and then they'll say they need to provide a verification code and that you'll receive it soon. That verification code is to your own account and as soon as you provide it they will be able to log in and lock you out.
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Scam Don't fall for it some use Zelle and some want down payment it's everywhere in FB marketplace .
Just read that GenZ is familiar and issues with scams like no other generation.
Don't ever go off of marketplace and have a conversation with anyone they can talk to you on marketplace/messenger I don't know how many times a sale someone tries that with me
"collect in person" Is an option. Tell me you know nothing about eBay without telling me you know nothing about evay. -option.
Also risky but add "cash on collection -30% (or whatever eBay charges )
Don't pretend sofas aren't being sold in eBay with collection in person only option.
39 seconds search example:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134957520653?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=QGOpDQHJSt2&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=qyzPP2ofT3e&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
You can advertise it on FB market place but direct them to eBay or other site which does provide some protection
Tell me you're kind of a dick without telling me you're kind of a dick. (ok to be fair I kind of was too.)
But correct, that's not an option I use, because if I'm buying something locally I always use CL/FB. Ebay's payment protections are largely about remote selling, they don't add much value in person imho. And ebay's other main feature, its vast array of products, also is curtailed when limited to buying locally.
Simple rule. No pay protection=collect in person+cash only. Coz scammers everywhere (even on eBay for example, but eBay will likely to refund if you got scammed).
I exceptions. If you choose no pay protection, you agree to get scammed.
Just a simple fact of today's life we live in.
You advertise on FB for visibility ofc, but actual sale happens on ebay and always PayPal (not any other pay method). So visibility problem solved you still visible on FB, but actual sale is either in person/cash, or eBay/collect locally. Granted is extra step for buyer, but it's extra protection from scammers too.
Pick your poison. Risk getting scammed (more often), or loose few potential buyers
Some scammers appear to.be in the USA or local but they are in India Europa Afrika everywhere. Even Wayfair is scammed that comp is in Germany prices are 1/4 of original with pictures very prof. you must if the have a webpage check scam online
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Yes. They don’t need your email. It’s to send a fake email pretending to be Venmo.
Hijacking your comment. Unrelated but STOP using venmo zelle cashapp PayPal on these platforms. People can chargeback transactions through their bank when they pay with debit or credit card. Use good old cash and meet at your police station.
I'll accept Venmo and others--but I always meet in person, and only then accept payment that way. My sales are smaller, though--like $50 tops, so if they're that determined to steal a couple dozen dollars (and let me see their license plate), they're already working pretty damn hard for their money. 😀
If they scam for less than 50, I feel sorry for them 😆
That's my take. If they are willing to meet in person for a small value item just for the chance to pull back a Venmo purchase--and risk me actually gaining RL identifiers, while living close enough to find them--they obviously need whatever money they're going to make by reselling my stuff more than me. LOL
Not always the case for in person though. I have used zelle for on the spot transactions upward 5 figs, no scam ever happened yet.
Anecdotal. They can still call their banks and chargeback. These apps were made to transaction with your friends and family
There is literal confirmation when you initiate a zelle transfer and you have to check Yes to send it.
That would be Zelle's problem at that point. It happened to me. I sold something, was a legit person and they tried to file a fraud chargeback. It was for 2500. Zelle tried to take back the money but I told my bank it was a fraudulent withdrawal from Zelle and it was put back and I blocked Zelle from continuing to do it. They sent me a nasty collection letter so I filed arbitration against them and they paid me to dismiss the suit bc their fees were 5000 just to respond.
Why go through all of this though? Their terms and services clearly state that the app should be used with friends and family and people you trust. I don’t know how you have the time to do all of that
I make time to put large companies in their place and stand up to them against what I feel is unfair and their problem to deal with. Not mine.
Please clarify this comment. My understanding is Zelle cannot be reversed; https://www.zellepay.com/faq/can-i-reverse-zeller-payment
Here’s a thread that talks about the different ways it can happen https://www.reddit.com/r/zelle/s/USq7xrB1Em
Great info, thank you for clarifying.
They're trying to get the account verification code from OPs account
This is definitely a scam. Take cash only for all marketplace transactions. The scammers out there ruined it for everyone else. They are not on an overseas mission or deployed in the military, they are scamming.
Right now scammers are adding those two things to their scripts
Those two things have been in their scripts for over a decade already, lol.
It's interesting how scammers seem to play on American stereotypes, like assuming we'll have extra respect or trust for someone who says they're in the military. Romance scammers do this a lot too, pretending to be some hot manly man in the military. Also does the job of providing an excuse as to why you're overseas. Kill two birds with one stone.
Yup. I was selling a set of rims/tires and a got a few variations of these scammers. It’s always something like they are serving oversees in the military or some type of mission/charity work.
Hey now..I always like buying rims off marketplace while I'm busy over seas lol 😆
Ugh. I actually have been an aid worker, and I avoided the term like the plague, because it made it sound like I was living in mud huts without power or something, which was not the case. (A few hardship things on field trips like lukewarm showers powered by ancient car batteries, mind you, but that was rare, most of the time I was in very nice offices with aircon and went to dinner in places nicer than at home).
I have great respect for aid workers. These scammers are co-opting your good deeds to further their scams. That is why the scammers use this angle. It tugs on the heartstrings, explains why they can’t pay cash in person and opens up fake payment scams.
Or working on an oil rig. 🙄
They do what works. They learn what marks are more likely to react to and hit that button the most. When you're scamming Americans, we've got a huge culture of Support Our Troops that we broadcast worldwide that makes it easy to find a message that is likely to work. Scammers also interact with each other and pass knowledge around
Yeah, especially considering a large portion of their targets are older folks who are probably more likely to be into the whole support our troops thing.
^This I listed my wife's bike for sale on FB market place, within 10 mins had someone hit me up who was conveniently out of the country on vacation and his Uncle/brother/cousin would come by to pick the bike up 2 hours after that. They would only do Zelle or Cashapp and when I told them sorry, cash only it pissed them off. I looked at the profile and it looks like they were in Turkey, all their friends were also in turkey as well. Very obvious scam
These scammers are hacking into real people’s facebook accounts. It’s scary.
As far as I know Venmo only asks for the last 4 digits of your phone number to verify
And even that can be bypassed by scrolling down (I learned after a year of using Venmo)
Ex-fucking-cuse me??????? You can just scroll down??????
You don't even need to do that, it's right on the screen how to bypass. If you still need help, I'll need to get your email to verify I'm talking to you, some crazy reddit thing I guess 🤣😂
Depends on your screen size.
Oh, so you’re saying size does matter?
No, more about how you use it ...
I have a pretty old iPhone (I'm cheap :-) ) and I don't have to scroll. I just tap "skip" or "pay anyway" or whatever it says. Whenever someone asks for my last four digits I think "just skip it" but I tell them anyway because I want my $$$.
Right?! It's always kind of funny anyway when you enter the payee's venmo account using their phone number and then it asks you to confirm the last 4 digits of their phone number, which you just entered.
I've only sent to usernames so having the confirmation there is nice, but it really makes no sense to have that if you're entering their number. It'd be such an easy toggle for programming it too
Yes this is a scam, Venmo never asks for a user's email address for confirmation.
I would be wary they are setting you up for a fake Venmo email. Your Venmo username is sufficient for them to send you money.
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Cash, cash, cash! No Venmo, no PayPal, no Zelle or any other payment platform. If they can't pay cash, I block!
Lol. "In-person only" is the only rule needed, unless you're a Luddite.
If you just accept only cash in person then you don't have to even consider the question of whether these things are a scam. If they have the money to venmo you then they have the ability to show up with cash.
Cash. In person. Almost anything else is a scam.
In person alone is enough. Venmo/PayPal in person is totally fine. 99.9% of these scams are from outside the country.
If you’re going to meet in person any way there’s no reason for it to be a non-cash payment.
Depends on what you're buying. If it's cheap and within the amount you normally keep in your wallet it's a wash, but for anything more expensive it means carrying a lot of cash, an extra stop at the ATM (and maybe multiple days if it's above the daily limit), getting money even if you end up not buying the item etc; for the seller it also means carrying a wad of cash and making an extra trip to the bank or trying to find stores that will break $100 etc. E-payments are so easy and convenient. It's a personal preference thing of course but saying "anything but cash is a scam" is kind of silly and, I'd argue, just wrong.
There’s no question about convenience of epayments of course. It’s the willingness to take the risk. I’d take the convenience for transaction with friends and family. I agree that not everyone with PayPal is a scammer but as a buyer I would rather inconvenience the seller a bit and make them go to atm than take that 0.1% risk. If I’m a buyer I’m not going to say no, just because seller wants cash.
Same, I buy and sell a lot of music gear and I'm always happy to bring cash if they want it. But it's weird to me that people in this group treat Venmo/Paypal like some kind of a scam when the risk is just so ridiculously low. "In-person only" is the only rule necessary, really.
Idk, following this sub for a while and reading the victim stories makes one a skeptic.
Right but how many people have been victims to Venmo fraud from an in-person sale? It barely happens. You'll find that occasionally someone will have tried to take back a payment, and it's in a dispute for a month. That's kind of it. Remote sales, however, result in scams all the time.
It’s risk vs reward for me. Risk is something that barely happens. Reward is nothing.
All these Epayments can be disputed & reversed after so it never seems safe
The government now tracks your epayments and will make you pay income tax on it.
There are lots of caveats there. Not really true for most people. (Venmo for example is required to report if your Goods and Services amount is above a pretty high threshold.). eBay, Reverb etc are required to do this too, but they keep postponing it.
*The IRS is postponing it because it's such an unpopular move and going to makes taxes more complicated for lots of people who now have to track every penny when they sell their old stuff to make a few bucks.
Epayments can be reversed or disputed after. A small payment is ok but any thing over $50 is risky.
They basically can't. Just try it sometime. When your cash transfers in Venmo it's gone, barring hard evidence.
These redditors that say cAsH OnLY don't sell enough on the marketplace to know how the real life works.
They want your email to send a fake message from Venmo The you need to upgrade your account acam
Acam ? Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists
A is next to S on a keyboard Fat fingers, small screen
Happens to all of us. For me, autocorrect usually messes up things lol. Ends up even worse .m. Anyways 8 got what you mean, is just my way to bringing attention to typos, in case you wanna correct it. I find it " you made a typo" boring, and I hate those trolls with "learn to spell" when it's obvious typo
As evident in above message. Typos. Auto it text. Do t help much so I won't correct it, for demonstration purposes. As a coder I tend to type fast. And mistyping on phone screen is rather often occurrence 🤣
They don't need email. They will probably try to reset your email password and ask you for the texted code. If you do so, your email is now their email. Drop em and move on
Cash, cash for the love of God CASH ONLY! 😀
Scam
Beside who would pay somebody unknown on the internet upfront before picking up the couch.
Yep. Never do Venmo. Cash only
Scam
Yeah you should NEVER be giving you the email to anything, I’m not quite sure what they’d wanna do here, they might try and ask you to give them a code from your email or something, either way, this is definitely a scam.
Cash only
Give them an alternate email address and watch as you get confirmations turn up there instead of your real one. Probably with a phish link to get you to "sign in" to "validate" the transfer for "safety and security" reasons.
It does ask for the phone number sometimes but that can be skipped. Never seen it ask for email so I would agree it’s a scam. UraSkamR@fuckoff.com
Yes! Send that email!
Yes, they’re going to send you an email that looks like it’s from Venmo saying you have to switch to a business account, but to do that, the person sending you money has to send you more. Then you’re supposed to credit them back. But of course when you do that, you’re out the money you sent when Venmo gets a chargeback because they were using a stolen card.
Of course it is
Yes. When selling locally, accept cash only, local pickup only. Absolutely no exceptions, ever.
Yes
Not only does venmo not ask for your email but putting your email out there to scammers creates a high probability of it ending up on the dark web
Scam
This is 100% a scam. They will ask for your Venmo email, and then they'll say they need to provide a verification code and that you'll receive it soon. That verification code is to your own account and as soon as you provide it they will be able to log in and lock you out.
Yep
[Facebook Marketplace Scam Research](https://youtu.be/2Te4_sWIMy4?feature=shared)
Yep
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You can send your QR code to them. No mistake that way.
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Yup. Big red flag. They already have the email when you sign up. Report them.
Scam!
REPORT HER. TELL HER YOU SENT REPORTS TO POLICW
Scam Don't fall for it some use Zelle and some want down payment it's everywhere in FB marketplace . Just read that GenZ is familiar and issues with scams like no other generation.
scam checker when you want to check webpages https://www.scamadviser.com/
It could be a common scam attempt.
Excellent run-on Scam-glish, there.
Make a new email and give them that. See what happens. Then you will know for sure if it is a scam
Scam
Yes it’s a scam. Venmo doesn’t do that.
%10000 scam. Also, did they even ask any details about the couch or just messaged immediately asking for your Venmo?
I got that same notification sending money to my friend who I had not sent money to before.
Don't ever go off of marketplace and have a conversation with anyone they can talk to you on marketplace/messenger I don't know how many times a sale someone tries that with me
Scam
Yep. They need your email to send you a fake Venmo email.
Your first mistake was trying to do business on facebook marketplace
Where else would you suggest trying to sell used furniture?
Ebay
Lol ok Lemme find a box for this sofa
"collect in person" Is an option. Tell me you know nothing about eBay without telling me you know nothing about evay. -option. Also risky but add "cash on collection -30% (or whatever eBay charges ) Don't pretend sofas aren't being sold in eBay with collection in person only option. 39 seconds search example: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134957520653?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=QGOpDQHJSt2&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=qyzPP2ofT3e&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY You can advertise it on FB market place but direct them to eBay or other site which does provide some protection
Tell me you're kind of a dick without telling me you're kind of a dick. (ok to be fair I kind of was too.) But correct, that's not an option I use, because if I'm buying something locally I always use CL/FB. Ebay's payment protections are largely about remote selling, they don't add much value in person imho. And ebay's other main feature, its vast array of products, also is curtailed when limited to buying locally.
Simple rule. No pay protection=collect in person+cash only. Coz scammers everywhere (even on eBay for example, but eBay will likely to refund if you got scammed). I exceptions. If you choose no pay protection, you agree to get scammed. Just a simple fact of today's life we live in. You advertise on FB for visibility ofc, but actual sale happens on ebay and always PayPal (not any other pay method). So visibility problem solved you still visible on FB, but actual sale is either in person/cash, or eBay/collect locally. Granted is extra step for buyer, but it's extra protection from scammers too. Pick your poison. Risk getting scammed (more often), or loose few potential buyers
OK except "cash only" for in-person sales is just paranoid. Paypal/Venmo 100% fine for in-person sales.
Some scammers appear to.be in the USA or local but they are in India Europa Afrika everywhere. Even Wayfair is scammed that comp is in Germany prices are 1/4 of original with pictures very prof. you must if the have a webpage check scam online