Bernmc
11th January 2023, 05:32 PM
Just a little heads up to fellow woodies. Encountered another Scumtree scam today - new to me, but seems to have been around in various guises.
It's a bit of a variation on the 'cash on collection' theme. The basic premise is that the courier company takes payment for goods, seller verifies ID and gets paid, and the courier turns up to collect. They send you a link to a fake site to 'verify' your ID to collect payment, and harvest your details from that.
this one is masquerading as Pack and Send, but it's also been done with an Auspost theme.
Screenshots below for your delectation (not my best work, but I wasn't in the most sporting of moods) - managed to string him/her along until about midday before they gave up. No staying power these modern scammers. Grammar is better than usual - just the one error in the first para of the pack and Send 'screenshot'.
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It's a bit of a variation on the 'cash on collection' theme. The basic premise is that the courier company takes payment for goods, seller verifies ID and gets paid, and the courier turns up to collect. They send you a link to a fake site to 'verify' your ID to collect payment, and harvest your details from that.
this one is masquerading as Pack and Send, but it's also been done with an Auspost theme.
Screenshots below for your delectation (not my best work, but I wasn't in the most sporting of moods) - managed to string him/her along until about midday before they gave up. No staying power these modern scammers. Grammar is better than usual - just the one error in the first para of the pack and Send 'screenshot'.
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