Online marketplaces have enabled individuals to connect directly with others in their community. Local listing services, including Craigslist, Letgo, and Offerup, allow you to conduct a virtual yard sale in the comfort of your own home. The benefits of using these services over print classifieds or yard sales are numerous. No longer are you forced to accept half of what something is worth, just to get it off your front lawn at the end of your garage sale.
Sellers can also list a lot or a little. No need to wait until your pile has grown large enough for a garage sale. Another Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace scam showed up in my email later that day. In this scam, someone calling themselves "Mary", sent an email saying they're interested in the item again, not naming it and telling me they are currently out of town but they really want the item badly.
They offer to send me a cashier's check with an extra dollar amount to "hold it" for them. They then ask you for personal information such as name, address, phone number, and the amount of the item. It works like this: Once the scammer has your information they will send a cashier's check for you to take to the bank. The check is fake. The total amount of the check is higher than what you're asking for the item.
Once the fake check is cashed they might ask you to wire them some of the money back. But once the check is determined to be fake, the bank will come calling for you to pay back the money. The scammer might even arrange for someone to pick up the item and you'll be left paying the bank all the money you received and lose the item to whoever picks it up.
Other scammers might ask you to cash the fake check and give the money to the person picking up the item. I ended up deleting both messages and successfully sold the item to a real person who paid cash in person at a public place. Ticket scams are among the more common scams on Craigslist -- and elsewhere. While scalpers in general can cost you quite a bit of extra cash by buying tickets cheap and selling them at a steep markup, you could lose completely if you're scammed into buying fake or cancelled tickets.
Some scammers have been able to make fake tickets that look real to a lot of big events like concerts or sports games.
According to WiseBread. Scammers on Craigslist will often list tickets that are either fake or already cancelled -- making you pay through the nose for a disappointment. LYV Report or the actual venue -- and for airplane tickets, never use Craigslist to avoid getting scammed.
In general, whenever an ad is not local meaning the person posting the ad isn't in your area , it's generally not a good idea to pursue it. Because posters of non-local ads generally won't be able to meet up with you and will often require transferring money through some online platform which scammers can use to their advantage. Some ads may be from on-duty soldiers in Iraq or other distant places that necessitate online transactions that could be fraught with scams.
And Craigslist also claims that the service is meant for local transactions in most cases -- so beware of the non-local advertisement. While there are certainly some precautions that should be taken when actually meeting and conducting a transaction in person such as meeting in a public place or bringing a friend with you , some people that are unable to meet in person or refuse to could be scammers on the site.
Perhaps surprisingly, a lot of people get scammed by using fake Craigslist sites to begin with. In the past, scammers have used fake Craigslist sites with very similar domain names in hopes of snagging internet searches from the real Craigslist site and convincing users to trust the fake ones. Some of these sites look very realistic and could cost you a lot of money.
Some scammers may use PayPal or rather, the promise of PayPal to send or receive money on Craigslist. PayPal warns people to be wary of ads that want to use the site for transactions, as many of them may never follow through -- or, even worse, they send you a fake PayPal email confirmation of a payment.
The site cautions Craigslist users that such fraudulent PayPal emails could have characteristics that include not addressing you by your full name or that money is being held until you perform some action like sending money through another wire service or using links to tracking orders. Whenever a buyer or seller tries to pay you with a money order or wire transfer -- take that as a big, waving red flag.
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