The old "person A will bring the money and then person B will pick up the item" has another variation, where person B shows up early and asks for the item before the money has arrived. They will then try to pressure you into giving them the item.
Omg thanks for this! They are everywhere. Even on the trains in London they get on give you a note with a packet of tissues and the note says can you spare any money etc etc.. .. and give u a sob story. Then another person gets on later on with the same sob story and tissues. Every time people give them money!! They are nicely dressed usually too! the other one going round on fb is someone posts that they’ve found a necklace and does it belong to anyone. Then later on you see the same post but it relates to a different area in the UK the after people have commented on it they change the original picture to something else to scam people with - usually it’s to sell an item etc and with the comments already people fall for it
Important video - subbed you yesterday and binge-watching all your stuff 8-) . I live in Portugal and it's the same - variations on all the scams you mentioned. Live long, live happy.
This second type of scam happened already to my friend somewhere in 2016 on amazon or ebay, when he wanted to sell his iphone. He also received fake confirmation from bank, with typos ;) when we told scammer that its not correct, he just simply apologise and send another one with corrected data. We played a little bit around with him, he said he would never cheated on us, because he believe in god and got some values, or other shit. At the end transaction never happened, but we were confused at the beginning, when my friend first received his messages.
If anyone has a problem with their bank account, THEY need to contact their bank...you never have to feel you need to pay them. You were never paid. Great advice with this video and adding no emails required.
Hi Shimmy email from address also can be faked, nowadays it's more difficult because if the real company has made the right steps, gmail for example will flag as scam, but still a thing, it's also scary that even non native speakers can make perfect scam emails using ai
Thanks Shimmy for making this video! I found your videos to be more useful than many other RUclipsrs here. I also like the video you made recently about Joshua Mayo and how he lied about one of his business opportunities (and who knows how many other opportunities he may have lied / given misleading info about). Your video here about the scammers is another good, useful video for people to learn from.
Great video! I've been putting off selling my stuff because I don't want to deal with these situations. Great for avoiding scams, but slowly turning me into a hoarder.
Depending on where you live, look for a local gathering yard sale. Where I'm at between my town and the next over, but closers to that towns outskirts, there is a gas station. Next to the station is a small field where most weekend you can find an impromptu yard sale/ flea market. I've set up a table and sold handmade jewellery and Christmas Ornaments and odds and ends of stuff my husband has bought and never used. It's a thought.
the last one you mentioned has happened to me twice. they offered to pay a higher price, but first you must offer exact addresa and personal details. i always pretend to be too old to understand how to actually write out the detais without my grandson's help, and i of course report them, because an older person could genuinely fall for it.
@@shimmymorris1 in my case it was justified, cos I was selling a heavy piece of furniture, so they had to come and pick it up. but as you said, it can be intimidating when you get 4 big blokes entering the flat 😲 just to take away a small desk or whatever. I stopped selling second hand furniture online for that reason 🤓
I had to sell 1bed apartment worth of stuff on FB.. luckily from the storage unit. Meet in public places for the small items… Once, someone started very sweet, polite conversation over swimming cap I was selling, which somehow brought to asking me to assist with the money for their long uber trip… 😂
The first scam, I never do anymore. I go to them or meet outside. But preferably where they live so if they tried to scam me, I'd have their address, but they wouldn't have mine
By the way, I forgot to mention in my last post that when I seen the title of your video ("The Most Dangerous Side Hustle") that I immediately assumed it was going be something about standing on top of a house to power wash the roof ... or standing on ladders to clean the gutters of a house. Those can actually be quite dangerous side hustles in themselves. All it would take is one wrong move and a person could be laying in a hospital bed for a couple of weeks (if not even worse).
That fake mail pattern is common. I got scammed of $200 in 2020 on fiverr. It was my tech junior bro, that showed me what i missed. Damn, i felt bad. Now i know better 😄
An additional part of the last scam is that they say they will send DHL to bring the money and the driver will give it to y, but DHL only does it for insured items. They send you an email from DHL (a gmail address 🤣) with a bank account to pay the “insurance” to and they will pay you the money back including the item price. 🤣🤣🤣 I had numerous ones like this.
Lately I've had lots of emails from FB with verification codes to change my password. When I never asked to change my password. Clearly someone is trying to hack my account 🙄
I'm trying to join the free membership but it's not letting me bc I can't upoload the picture for some reason. I tried with several dif. files, small jpgs and pngs but its not working. Its not my int. speed as it is quite high and its working fine right now.
A picture for my profile. So, I get this box prompting me to complete my profile, and it won't let me go beyond it until, I guess, I do by clicking on "comlete" at the bottom. However, that button is greyed out, presumably bc I can't upload a picture. @@shimmymorris1
People will scam folks selling an old Desk Fsn for 2 Quid...its ridiculous..... I only ever shop on ebay these days as i KNOW i have buyer protection, i got scammed out if £112 for a Retro Alienware Laptop... thankfully eBay protection kicked in and i got the money back but it sucked..... because dammit i wanted a retro Alienware for my collection! Wasn't all bad...i found another for £99, didn't work but whatever it looks cool. 🙂
Ok, I don’t understand the benefit of the last one. Why would you want to know that the home owner is home? You’d think it would be easier to boot in a random door where you think nobody is home. If you meet there to buy an item, there’s obviously going to be someone home. Just seems dumb. I mean, if you’re breaking in to steal stuff, why not just boot down a random door or a random house? Why go through all the work of making a fb listing just to guarantee that you’ll need to confront the homeowner AND know there’ll be witnesses and an assault. Seems like it would add more problems
@@KalpeshSiriya funnily enough this video has some of my best watch time... sometimes the captivating story is all you need. but thank you. i do have an editor now and my videos are generally edited a lot more, i just wanted to get this out as soon as possible
Shimmy, thanks for this. We have sold stuff on Market place, but only after lots of scammers wanting to pay after picking the items up and lots of time wasters. I hadn't thought about the scary side of this and after hearing your first story at your flat (bless your heart) I will never sell on there again. Thanks so much for taking the time to record this, when you are so busy! Really appreciate it
The first scam, I never do anymore. I go to them or meet outside. But preferably where they live so if they tried to scam me, I'd have their address, but they wouldn't have mine
In the States, I just ask them to meet at a police station. Most scammers lose interest 😅
Great idea
Brilliant
so smart!!!!
Absolutely genius!
yeah thats what u do, my local PD has a special spot in the front specifically for meeting up for trades and sales
Wow! Thank yoiu for calling my attention to these very scary scams! Stay safe!
you too! You're welcome. I wish more people spoke about them
The old "person A will bring the money and then person B will pick up the item" has another variation, where person B shows up early and asks for the item before the money has arrived. They will then try to pressure you into giving them the item.
Omg thanks for this! They are everywhere. Even on the trains in London they get on give you a note with a packet of tissues and the note says can you spare any money etc etc.. .. and give u a sob story. Then another person gets on later on with the same sob story and tissues. Every time people give them money!! They are nicely dressed usually too! the other one going round on fb is someone posts that they’ve found a necklace and does it belong to anyone. Then later on you see the same post but it relates to a different area in the UK the after people have commented on it they change the original picture to something else to scam people with - usually it’s to sell an item etc and with the comments already people fall for it
yup, there's so many it's endless!
I get a dozen of scam messages every week on the charity Facebook page. I think it is a shortfall of Facebook safety that should be addressed ASAP...
yes i'm getting this too!!! Crazy how FB haven't done anything about it
Thank you so much for making this video, Shimmy. I had no idea about checking the "From" address. You're awesome 😊
I’m so happy you saw it!! The from address is so important. Always check it! ☺️
Important video - subbed you yesterday and binge-watching all your stuff 8-) . I live in Portugal and it's the same - variations on all the scams you mentioned. Live long, live happy.
This second type of scam happened already to my friend somewhere in 2016 on amazon or ebay, when he wanted to sell his iphone. He also received fake confirmation from bank, with typos ;) when we told scammer that its not correct, he just simply apologise and send another one with corrected data. We played a little bit around with him, he said he would never cheated on us, because he believe in god and got some values, or other shit. At the end transaction never happened, but we were confused at the beginning, when my friend first received his messages.
If anyone has a problem with their bank account, THEY need to contact their bank...you never have to feel you need to pay them. You were never paid. Great advice with this video and adding no emails required.
thanks
Omg! The postman trick was exactly the message that my husband received. 😂 I hate them!
we received it so many times!!! the bastards! haha
All of Facebook is now overrun with scammers. It's gotten as bad as Craig's List.
Imo it's worse, far worse
Hi Shimmy email from address also can be faked, nowadays it's more difficult because if the real company has made the right steps, gmail for example will flag as scam, but still a thing, it's also scary that even non native speakers can make perfect scam emails using ai
Thanks Shimmy for making this video! I found your videos to be more useful than many other RUclipsrs here. I also like the video you made recently about Joshua Mayo and how he lied about one of his business opportunities (and who knows how many other opportunities he may have lied / given misleading info about). Your video here about the scammers is another good, useful video for people to learn from.
thank you! appreciate that a lot
Omg! The police never came??? That is insane! 😢
They were probably defunded, lol
@@lvrcollective yeah that would never happen where I live. But I guess they asked for it. 🤷♀️
Great video! I've been putting off selling my stuff because I don't want to deal with these situations. Great for avoiding scams, but slowly turning me into a hoarder.
Depending on where you live, look for a local gathering yard sale.
Where I'm at between my town and the next over, but closers to that towns outskirts, there is a gas station. Next to the station is a small field where most weekend you can find an impromptu yard sale/ flea market.
I've set up a table and sold handmade jewellery and Christmas Ornaments and odds and ends of stuff my husband has bought and never used.
It's a thought.
the last one you mentioned has happened to me twice. they offered to pay a higher price, but first you must offer exact addresa and personal details. i always pretend to be too old to understand how to actually write out the detais without my grandson's help, and i of course report them, because an older person could genuinely fall for it.
100% they could! The last one is the scariest because who wants to give an address to a stranger scammer!
@@shimmymorris1 in my case it was justified, cos I was selling a heavy piece of furniture, so they had to come and pick it up. but as you said, it can be intimidating when you get 4 big blokes entering the flat 😲 just to take away a small desk or whatever. I stopped selling second hand furniture online for that reason 🤓
Loved the photo you sent of your "boyfriend" 😂😂😂😂
Happened with me when someone wanted an item on Etsy. So I'm reluctant to go forward with Etsy. Ps your last response on this video was priceless.
Isn’t that the purpose of Etsy…?
hahaha thank you! Aw that's a shame but I wouldn't let one person deter you from selling on Etsy. Then they win... and we can't let them win
Maurice is hilarious!
I had to sell 1bed apartment worth of stuff on FB.. luckily from the storage unit. Meet in public places for the small items… Once, someone started very sweet, polite conversation over swimming cap I was selling, which somehow brought to asking me to assist with the money for their long uber trip… 😂
haahaha that's brilliant! over a swimming cap!
The first scam, I never do anymore. I go to them or meet outside. But preferably where they live so if they tried to scam me, I'd have their address, but they wouldn't have mine
By the way, I forgot to mention in my last post that when I seen the title of your video ("The Most Dangerous Side Hustle") that I immediately assumed it was going be something about standing on top of a house to power wash the roof ... or standing on ladders to clean the gutters of a house. Those can actually be quite dangerous side hustles in themselves. All it would take is one wrong move and a person could be laying in a hospital bed for a couple of weeks (if not even worse).
that is true. there are physically more dangerous side hustles
I have not had a FB marketplace scam, but I do appreciate the information.
I have run into other scams though.
That fake mail pattern is common. I got scammed of $200 in 2020 on fiverr. It was my tech junior bro, that showed me what i missed.
Damn, i felt bad. Now i know better 😄
hopefully it'll never happen again!
An additional part of the last scam is that they say they will send DHL to bring the money and the driver will give it to y, but DHL only does it for insured items. They send you an email from DHL (a gmail address 🤣) with a bank account to pay the “insurance” to and they will pay you the money back including the item price. 🤣🤣🤣 I had numerous ones like this.
madness!!! Crazy how deep the scam goes
Thanks Shimmy. Good work.
Thank you too!
I would make sure the payment came through, too, before I would give them any address.
yup for sure!
You meet at the bank. Security guard standing next to you. Then deposit your money. You'll find out quick if there a scammer.
good idea!
Lately I've had lots of emails from FB with verification codes to change my password. When I never asked to change my password. Clearly someone is trying to hack my account 🙄
Always insist on payment by either cash or Revolut or PayPal.
yes good idea!
It’s better to keep them going. You make them waste their time and they have less time scamming other people.
God.. that is scary!
ye the first issue wasn't fun with the PS5
I get the 3rd one every time I list something on marketplace. I just say I will only accept cash on pickup. They soon go away.
it's getting so frustrating
I'm trying to join the free membership but it's not letting me bc I can't upoload the picture for some reason. I tried with several dif. files, small jpgs and pngs but its not working. Its not my int. speed as it is quite high and its working fine right now.
what picture do you need to upload?
A picture for my profile. So, I get this box prompting me to complete my profile, and it won't let me go beyond it until, I guess, I do by clicking on "comlete" at the bottom. However, that button is greyed out, presumably bc I can't upload a picture. @@shimmymorris1
For the profile but, nevermind, I just tried again and it let me.@@shimmymorris1
Ive had the dsv one as well! 😂
Don't even have Facebook. TYVM. Your awesome. Still trying get my print demand going.
you've got this!!
People will scam folks selling an old Desk Fsn for 2 Quid...its ridiculous.....
I only ever shop on ebay these days as i KNOW i have buyer protection, i got scammed out if £112 for a Retro Alienware Laptop... thankfully eBay protection kicked in and i got the money back but it sucked..... because dammit i wanted a retro Alienware for my collection!
Wasn't all bad...i found another for £99, didn't work but whatever it looks cool. 🙂
Ye there’s scams everywhere but at least with eBay there’s protection in place. That retro Alienware sounds sick btw!
What was the race of the scammers? South Asian?
no... all over
Ok, I don’t understand the benefit of the last one. Why would you want to know that the home owner is home? You’d think it would be easier to boot in a random door where you think nobody is home. If you meet there to buy an item, there’s obviously going to be someone home. Just seems dumb.
I mean, if you’re breaking in to steal stuff, why not just boot down a random door or a random house? Why go through all the work of making a fb listing just to guarantee that you’ll need to confront the homeowner AND know there’ll be witnesses and an assault. Seems like it would add more problems
Great Content, could work more on overall editing of the video🙌
thanks... i didn't want to edit this video. it wasn't important. I needed to stress the importance of this more!
@@shimmymorris1 Yeah I get it, but it engages more audience for a longer period of time.(increases you watch time too)
@@KalpeshSiriya funnily enough this video has some of my best watch time... sometimes the captivating story is all you need. but thank you. i do have an editor now and my videos are generally edited a lot more, i just wanted to get this out as soon as possible
Shimmy, i will share this video for you.
thank you!
Scammed. Very sorry.
sorry to hear
Shimmy, thanks for this. We have sold stuff on Market place, but only after lots of scammers wanting to pay after picking the items up and lots of time wasters. I hadn't thought about the scary side of this and after hearing your first story at your flat (bless your heart) I will never sell on there again. Thanks so much for taking the time to record this, when you are so busy! Really appreciate it
You're welcome! Don't let my stories stop you selling, just be careful and aware of the dangers... :D
The first scam, I never do anymore. I go to them or meet outside. But preferably where they live so if they tried to scam me, I'd have their address, but they wouldn't have mine