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DallasSteve
Nomad
Jul 13, 2022

Facebook RV Scams

I am on Facebook Marketplace selling some items and sometimes I see great deals on RVs. When I inquire they auto respond directing me to an email address. When I write them they come up with an eBay story that they need to register me as a buyer and they want my name and address. At that point I stop the contact because I can see it's a scam. Does anybody know what the end game of this scam is? Do they just try to steal identity with this information or do they end up requesting a money transfer? Maybe this has been discussed here before, but I don't know how I would find this in the Search feature. I got nothing when I entered "Facebook RV Scams".

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  • Tvov's avatar
    Tvov
    Explorer II
    Jul 13, 2022
    I don't know much about FB Marketplace, but friends who have used it say that in the last year or so it has been taken over by commercial sellers and scammers.

    Speaking of Facebook and scammers, I still have friends who repost those "Win this Motorhome!" scams. My wife told me awhile ago to stop bugging people about those, because people don't like being told that they are being taken by an obvious scam.
  • Ranger_Smith's avatar
    Ranger_Smith
    Explorer
    Jul 13, 2022
    Can see it is a scam just by the price . . . Don't need to read any further. A class C for $1500. Don't know what the outcome would be??

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