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    Grand Master hogthrob's Avatar
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    An expensive watch for sale on marketplace? Facebook marketplace?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hogthrob View Post
    An expensive watch for sale on marketplace? Facebook marketplace?
    Snigger
    "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."

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    A known BT scam.....Seems not by some people unfortunately.

    They show funds transferred on their fake app(Hoping your fine at this point),if your not theyve already forwarded the details(screen shot) with the details ie your name etc to an accomplice.
    You query why its not gone into your bank,they ring their bank(Their accomplice)call goes thru in secs!!,they read back all the details to make it all sound perfectly fine(some fall for it at this point) hand over whatever it is.

    Youve been SCAMMED.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kace View Post
    What, precisely, leads you to that conclusion?

    Quote Originally Posted by hogthrob View Post
    An expensive watch for sale on marketplace? Facebook marketplace?
    Where was Facebook mentioned? Or marketplace?

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    Where was Facebook mentioned? Or marketplace?
    In the first sentence: "My husband had an expensive watch for sale on marketplace".

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    Quote Originally Posted by hogthrob View Post
    In the first sentence: "My husband had an expensive watch for sale on marketplace".
    Thanks. When the poster mentioned a "collector's page" I had assumed that it was on a forum like this.

    Does Facebook marketplace have "collector's pages"? (I don't have much to do with Facebook.)

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    What, precisely, leads you to that conclusion?
    It's almost a parody given the number of red flags squeezed into one story. Now it's possible that it's true but it just feels like a lie posted to get attention on the internet. It could almost be a plot for an episode of Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen.

    What makes you think it's true?

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    Quote Originally Posted by kace View Post
    It's almost a parody given the number of red flags squeezed into one story. Now it's possible that it's true but it just feels like a lie posted to get attention on the internet. It could almost be a plot for an episode of Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen.

    What makes you think it's true?
    More like Snatch surely?
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    Talking of scams had the Evri text message classic again today.

    "EVRI mail package in the process of transportation, due to damage to the outer package, address information is lost, can not be delivered. Please be sure to update the delivery address information in the link within 12 hours."

    I just feel sorry for the poor people who fall for it, no doubt mostly old or unfortunate people who can ill afford to lose their money.
    Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.

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