Chronopost Scam Facebook Marketplace Warning

Nearly fell for it until I found out what the 'insurance' was going to cost. Everything she said was word for word your example. Can't anybody stop this?

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Yes I’ve had one of these I was selling a log burner and it was the same on Crome post for £200 so I’m going to send him to get stuffed thank you

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I've had exactly the same from someone called sephora djedje. Its was too suspicious. She was happy to pay more than twice the value and almost the cost of the item new (a snuzpod cot) for shipping and insurance. Just too strange.

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It is so sad that people doing now a days,they using the internet the wrong way.

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Just had exactly the same.There are poor innocent, hard working people out there that these people steal from and it's so sad

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I just got this message from a woman wanting to buy some baby clothes. I got as far as giving her my home address and email address! Then got an email about paying a $75 insurance fee.

I replied to her straight away and said no thanks. reported and blocked her. Can she do anything with my email and address? I hope not!

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Had an almost identical conversation about furniture I am trying to sell on Facebook Marketplace . Potential customer is very vague about pickup/delivery and talks about a postman picking up ‘the package’. My furniture is much too large to be picked up by a postman.

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Just had it sent to me and I didn't like the tone when I said I didn't know chronology.. so I Google and found this site..I've blocked the conversation now phew..

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I’ve just had same situation and now he’s threatening me with legal action and imprisonment! WTF! Unfortunately he has our address as I thought Chronopost was a reputable service .. I can’t unsend/remove that message anymore - I have reported the user as “scam” and actually will see if a friend that’s in the police force can assist if needed..

OMG! What a horrible experience!

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I also had this a woman called solving, I realised that it was scam and told her not to ask again .I wasn't comfortable and that it was a scam,reported it fbook,she left the message immediately after I told her .

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Thanks for publishing this.

Almost got caught by someone called Julie who asked to send a chronopost mailman to collect a bag as she worked.

Not knowing what this was looked it up and spoke to a friend.I will know if it happens again.

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I am having almost the same exact conversation and now I'm convinced it is a scam. Thanks for the original post

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I have exactly the same conversation and instructions to send item by Chronopost. When I said I had never heard of that method of posting and I thought the customer was a scammer, I am now being asked to take down the item from fb marketplace. I am the seller NOT the scammer, is this a reasonable request from fb?

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Thanks for posting this! Almost got scammed!

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Marie Pierre has sent me the same message yesterday, sending a chromo mailman etc… I knew straight away that something just not right so I blocked her directly. I then googled chromo mailman and I’m reading about the market place scams…. Quite frightening actually…

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Thanks for this. I’ve just had someone offer the same thing so did some Googling as it seemed suspicious and found your post. She had an identical script. I told her I wasn’t happy to go ahead given I’ve read about scams and within seconds she had exited the group.

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Thanks for this. I’ve just had someone offer the same thing so did some Googling as it seemed suspicious and found your post. She had an identical script. I told her I wasn’t happy to go ahead given I’ve read about scams and within seconds she had exited the group.

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Today, for the first time, I almost fell for a story until I was sent an email to pay for the insurance, and then I gave up.. the only thing I don't know is whether it will be possible to use my data that I wrote: name, surname, address, and email address?

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I just had this happen to me on fb marketplace. I was unsure.. but gave my name and email details then as they kept telling me about this insurance I looked up and realised this was a scam. However I got an email saying I paid for delivery. Just ignore don't open any email or links they don't have all my details and just reported it. Be aware of these emails and selling on Facebook.

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Just had the very same from a Rafael. Same wording in each message exactly.

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What do they do with your contact details/address once they have it? How does this sc am even benefit them?!

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Just had exactly the same interaction. I said sorry, no and reported as a scam.

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message from Monika Struska early this AM. Same wording. Blocked and reported as a scam.

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I HAD THE SAME EXPERIENCE. DO NOT GIVE YOUR ADDRESS, NAME OR EMAIL TO THESE PEOPLE. I was contacted by someone who seemed completely normal on facebook marketplace about a product I was selling. They asked me about the price and condition. Then they said they will make the payment via 'CHRONOPOST' who will hand me a cash payment. I didn't realise this was a scam in time and gave some details. They proceeded to ask me for insurance money, at which point I told them I no longer wanted to sell them this item. That's when the threats came in: "I will sue you - you'll go to prison", and other nonsense. Don't fall for this!

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I got the request for insurance money today! Blocked and reported as spam.

What's really annoyed me is that Facebook isn't taking action to stop this, and it's been going on with the same script since Oct 2021? Yet, I tried to sell a second hand breast pump and Facebook took it down in an hour for "violating community standards"!

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I have just received one of these suggestions to send my item to the buyer. When looking on here people say it's a scam but I can't understand how it can be. If they are sending you the money via the courier and they take the item why is it a scam. Not yet replied. Hoping someone can explain.

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Had loads of these messages and I basically tell them too do one but I’m not so nice four letter words and delete the message

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Just had the same, just report as scam and delete.

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Just had the same think on FB marketplace from a Autorité Azerré but have seen this type of scam a few times normally with UPS. Reported the user but FB is useless at removing these scammers.

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I just had the exact same thing so thanks for the tip off

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The real part of the scam is that they ask you to pay the insurance up front and they say that they will add this to the sale price.

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I had the same MO this morning for a manky old second hand Oxy Acetelene set, poor buggers.

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THanks for this, just had exactly the same messages on Facebook Marketplace, thought it was odd that someone who appeared to be in Germany wanted to send Chronopost courier for large item of furniture costing £60 in England! Suspicious account was Maren Beier. I noticed 2 accounts with same name, similar photos. Also suspicious that their 'family' friend connections had surnames almost exactly the same but not quite.

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today 4 may 2022 I comfirm the scam... they ask me to pay extra 100 pounds and I will receive them back by envelope when postman comes...

exactley the same messages!

carefully

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In NZ, just got a similar message via Facebook marketplace - limited facebook details for the person, they had "friends" with no detail either and a Chronopost email using @gamil.com (They use addresses ending in @chronopost.fr or @network.pickup.fr... :-)

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Just got the same thing this morning from a guy wanting to use chronopost, the exact same wording was used, thanks guys for your feedback all these comments helped me to know if I was being scammed or not

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I was selling a coffee table on Marketplace. I had a message from 'Justin Buvato' he said I am busy at work, will send chronopost agent with your money.

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I live in rural Canada... Just had the same message, word for word. There was a profile & picture on Facebook, created in 2019, with nothing added other than the picture. Blocked & reported.

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I ve had same on my facebook. Just gave them my address

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I am dealing with this situation right now. I also got an email from Chronopost itself. Is it that level? I am trying to sell a TV. Same wordings. The person has a profile on facebook "Andrew Shepherd"

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Does anyone know how the scam actually works? I've had a couple of those messages. It seemed dodgy so I blocked them, but I cant work out how they would actually get your money or item.

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Just had one as well what does it do to my tablet what it used for?

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In NZ just got one as well wanting to buy a table from me. "Busy at work will send Chronopost Agent with your money bla bla bla...Next time I will take it to the next level by providing a fake address to see where the conversation will lead to :-) Unbelievable!

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I had the same thing this evening, I'm in the UK. They gave the name Nicole.

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I have just had almost exactly the same conversation with a Natalie Mactavish. Something didn't ring true, so o googled and found your report. I Have also blocked and reported as a scam.

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Thank god for this website and all of your messages on here.

I would have also been scammed if it weren't for reading on here first.

Thank you!

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I’m in New Zealand, yes had this message on Facebook marketplace for items on two separate occasions. Similar pretext, busy at work, same wording each time including “ OK Let me explain, a Chronopost agent will come to your home to give you an envelope containing your money, and once you have checked your money you give him the item so he can send it to my home.”

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This scam is now in New Zealand. Talk about taking it global.

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This was extremely helpful as I have just had an identical message.

Gave him the 2 finger tablet.

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another one here, same messages, thanks everyone for confirming it is a scam before I took things further.

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Yes. This has just near happened to my partner.

Messages from a Mariame sagare (second name not 100%) my partner had already blocked and deleted as I write this.

Exactly as above. The odd English, the odd interest or lack there of, for the item. Very similar questions.

Requesting personal details to go through.

I must admit we nearly went further ahead as with above, we couldn’t foresee how they would scam us if bringing cash as no cash. No item. But either way alarm bells ringing. LGood to listen to your guts.

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After blocking a couple of similar scams - thanks to this post - I still cant understand how they intend to make money?

Both those that contacted me were not very convincing as buyers - didnt want any information about the item I was selling - just so busy working they had to send a carrier.

Is the scam that they get details of name and address?

I would be grateful if someone could explain.

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I had two such similar messages within a couple of hours of posting on facebook selling site.

The first wanted to send fedex to collect. I realised a scam although I couldnt really work out how it worked and blocked that person. The second was an message exactly the same - word for word - and wanted to send chronopost with cash.

In each case the person showed as being a member of the facebook group although neither had any facebook profile.

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I had the exact same exchange. I got the fake email unfortunately I gave some basic details over. What alerted me was the email they sent was not official but on a Gmail account. 'Galan So' is their FB account.

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I had exactly the same message word for word last night by some called jaine saying she was going to send a chronopost post agent with cash and for them to collect my item that has been up in market place and same as everyone I looked them up to find that they are scammers when I said I don’t deal with dirty scammers I then got a message back calling me white trash and then threaten to come and f**k me up l was like good luck with that you gotta find me first as I didn’t give them my details now blocked and reported

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Hi,

I have two items currently for sale on FB Market Place and have had similar scam enquiries for both items.

The first one said he would buy my item but wanted to use Royal Mail to deliver money and collect item. His name was supposed to be Pedro Ramos but when I looked him up, his profile was clearly of a woman but the gender had been left as male. No friends or other info. I insisted the item was cash on collection only and have heard no more from "Pedro".

Just had a second one from "Ruth Tano" wanting to purchase via Chronopost despite telling her/him the item was sold STC. Told them cash on collection and "Ruth" disappeared.

A nasty scam which threatens to ruin a good place to sell items.

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Had exactly the same message but with a different name. Not quite sure how this scam works but was uncomfortable with it anyway.

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Thank you for posting this. Was already extremely suspicious when I googled and found the exact conversation!

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had 2 people contacting me like this the other day. thankfully I misread their message and just provided my name and address so hoping nothing they can do with that as its public info really. Im glad the second person did it cos that prompted me to properly search, as id thought it sounded odd! They used the same script as above, ignored my answers to questions and both had a photo of a sweet old lady and her dog. 🤦‍♀️ Reported to FB.

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Omg same exact words. Blocked

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Thanks for posting - I received the same, word for word. Have blocked.

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Just put a suite for sale in Market place in South Wales. Within half an hour I had a message asking if it was still available, what condition and how much. All this information was already mentioned in the ost but did give the answer to the questions. Then had a reply saying he would have it. would like it tomorrow and was busy so will send Chronooost mailman with envelope and take item. I just relied saying cash on arrival is fine. Then checked out Chronopost mail and found it is a scam

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Exactly the same attempted scam on Facebook Marketplace from a buyer in Bradford. Reported to Fraud Squad.

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I had one from Traore Inza prtesumably another scammer

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I, too, have had a similar Facebook message exchange from Juitine Bado. I'm going to block and report it.

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I’ve had a very similar message from Sangare Karim. Blocked and reported.

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I placed an advert for some furniture on FB marketplace, received a reply from a Lesley Silvester who at first looked genuine enough. conversation as follows,

Lesley- Hello, is this still available?

Me-got someone already interested so will let you know

Lesley- Ok the price suits me ok I take it but I would like to come tomorrow but I am busy with work at the moment, I'll send a Chronopost letter carrier to your home to give you your money in cash and collect the item .

Me-will be in touch tomorrow

Lesley-OK no worries but what time are you available tomorrow?

Me-As mentioned will let you know

Lesley-Ok so to make the sending, I need your

Name / First name :

Address / City / Postal Code :

Total amount :

E-mail address :

Time of visit Tomorrow :

Lesley - SO?

Me-As mentioned will be in contact once the person comes tomorrow, if they don't buy I will then be in touch

Lesley-Don't worry, send me your details so that I can go to a Chronopost EXPRESS AGENCY for you to send mail to your home I am waiting for your contact details: Last name and First name, City, Address, Postalcode, E-mail address

at this point I certainly became a little suspicious, I checked the FB profile and it showed photo of a lady (photo only recently added) she had loads of friends all of them were from Ivory Coast and not 1 English sounding name, Then searched FB and found the same lady real profile although a different photo

total scammer.

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Same thing happened to me,looked it up found it to be a scam

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Had same experience with FB selling page. got email with link to pay insurance. The email also looked dodgy. Hence not clicked it and told Roman that I am not falling for this

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I have just experienced the same and confirmed my address and email for collection. The scammer is Peggy Boli. What do I do to safeguard things.

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Yes my face book market place query was from the same person

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I have just had the same thing word for word. From someone called Pegyy,

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Same thing happened to me and I gave my email and address before becoming worried. What can I do now to protect myself?

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Same just happened to me but I’ve given me email address etc - any advice! Actually thought the guy was real 😡

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Same thing happened to me word for word looked it up found it to be a scam

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Thank you. I have just had it from someone called Roman

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This happened to me a few mins ago and I did some research as well and luckily I saw your message and the exact conversation I had with somebody called Fiona. Thanks to your post I managed to stay away from a big scam!

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Sigh, Anne Marie just tried to pull this one on me.

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I just gave them the address to my city police station and told them "I'm at the front desk, everybody knows me, just come on in.

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Don’t understand this if they turn up with the money what’s the problem?

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Just had the same and got an email to say the collection has been launched and failure to carry out the transaction they would take me to court for up to £75000 just reported as scam and blocked the the user on Facebook and also blocked emails. The things people will do

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I have had the exact issue by someone named Marie Anne. Thank god for this post!

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I think I nearly got caught out on market place, luckily I pulled the plug before giving bank details, it was through cronopost and a buyer in France I believe, hope facebook and marketplace get them stopped

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I just had someone offer to bring me cash and have the car seat I'm selling picked up.

Thought it odd and looked up to find it is a scam.

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Thank goodness for this post as I’ve just listed an item on marketplace and was contacted by someone wanting to send someone with the money to collect the item, chronopost carrier, I said I didn’t know what that was and looked it up and saw this post thankfully and blocked them

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I too am having exactly the same conversation with a Serbia Silue. Looked at her profile and think she may be using someone else’s photo.

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hello, I am currently having a very similar conversation with someone right now who claims they want to buy collect £700 worth of furniture from me, advertised on FB Marketplace about 30 mins ago!

How do you report and blcok please, as I am a bit of a novice?

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I have had a similar experience today, though they called the company GLS Express. Upon receiving the email I saw it came from a Gmail account which a large company wouldn't use. I then read that they wanted me to send them money and the person (they were using the name Marie-Claude Garnier) got quite pushy. I then googled it saw it was a scam so I sent them pictures of what was being said online! They then asked why UPS would rip me off - my reply was they wouldn't ... but you would! They then said all the risk was on them blah blah. I reported and blocked them.

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I’ve just had the same basically word for word,absolutely disgusting,I told them I knew they were scammers and they didn’t deny it,reported and blocked now

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Yes it just happened to me this morning exactly the same wording but I told them cash on collection only

NEVER send money when it’s you selling items and never post without the money in your account do not post and send tracking number for your payment as once you send the item it’s gone.

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I've just had exactly the same. Said NO THANKS and they even asked Why? I said I didn't take part in Scams and reported it to FB.. Not that I expect FB to do anything, they peddle enough cons if the price is right!

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SO thankful for this post as this has just happened to me too. Exactly the same script. I gave my name, address and email so I'm worried. Is there anything they can do with those details!?

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I've had two today, one from Jojo MIGNON and another from Marie-Claude GARNIER, responding to my Facebook marketplace ad. They sent an email requesting that I pay £46 'insurance fee' to release the funds. Both have been reported to FB as scams and the users blocked on both Messenger and FB.

One thing I did notice that it took a long time to ask where I lived, which was what aroused my suspicions in the first place.

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Yep, just had the exact same conversation. Ignored my questions and just stuck to the script. Blocked.

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exactly same thing today. Same wording. now blocked

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Exactly the same happened to me today. Selling on Market place and almost exactly the same wording as mentioned above. I blocked everything following request for £100 for letter insurance. She gave the name Halina but obviously this would be false. Shame we cant identify and shame these scammers.

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Same thing happened to me. In the end, they threaten to sue and the police will arrest you if you do not pay for the insurance fee. That is ridiculous!

Biggest mistake is to give them my email address and address, quite annoying email comes in.

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All the same, unfortunately. The scammer mimicked the profile of a real person, who is Italian, and being Italian myself, I switched languages and they kept replying to me in English with one of those copy/paste messages... I looked up the guy and he actually exists, but probably doesn't know his identity has been "stolen" by some scammer b*****d!

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Yep me too.

Thought this was odd.

As soon as they asked for money to cover the insurance for the letter my spidey senses went off.

Never part with money if you are selling anything.

I gave my address but hid my email so hopefully they can’t do any identity fraud.

Scamming c**ts!

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I haven't been so lucky as I only found your post after I had sent the money. Hopefully,I'll get it back as I reported the fraud straight away. If not, it has been a costly lesson.

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I am in the middle of an almost exactly same worded exchange. Thanks for this. Philip

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I have just received the exact same facebook message, pretty much the exact same wording ect

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Same has just happen me. Thanks for posting it!

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I have just had one now, as soon as they said about Chronopost I looked it up and found that it was a French company and then found this post. I have blocked and reported the buyer (if it is a real person) to Facebook

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I had the same thing on Facebook MarketPlace. Does anyone know exactly how this scam is supposed to work? Is it all about the supposed necessary insurance payment required from the Seller? Presumably the scammer would keep this payment, but are they also trying to get the Seller's bank details? Adam

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I had one 2 days ago. I didn’t know it was a scam, given address and email detail. Can’t delete as too late. And just now got another one from another person. So did a check.

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I sadly gave the scammer my name, address and email address, but saw this post just in time to stop me from going through with the insurance money transaction. I knew something wasn't right when I had to pay for something! Thank you so much! And doe anyone have any advise on what I should do about them having my address and email?

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This post saved me from the scam! Thank you so much!

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I just had this conversation:

-Is this still available?

Me-Hi! Yes it still available.

- Ok the price suits me ok I take it but I would like to come today but I am busy with work at the moment, I'll send a Chronopost letter carrier to your home to give you your money in cash and collect the item .

Me- I have never used Chronopost and not sure how it works

- I explain, a Chronopost agent will come to your home to give you an envelope containing your money, and once you have verified your money, you will give him the object to send it to me .

Me-How do I know this is not spam?

-Wait, I explain you will receive money in cash in an envelope that will be sent via Chronopost EXPRESS mail delivery service to your home address the Chronopost company will send a postman to your postal address to pick up the package and deposit your money and then send me thereafter to my delivery address, I hope you understood me .

Me- Sorry, I would rather have pick up only by the buyer

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I had almost the exact same conversation with oneone on a reasonably high ticket item last night. Luckily I was rushing about and stressed, so I said I'd message them tomorrow. Think I'll be blocking them instead.

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Wish I saw this first, but luckily did not give them any 'insurance money'

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Thank you so much for the info.

I also have received very similar chat as I have something on Facebook market.

Thanks for saving from thees scammers.

People please be aware!

Below my script from that scam chat on Facebook Market

Ok the price suits me ok I take it but I would like to come tomorrow but I am busy with work at the moment, I'll send a Chronopost letter carrier to your home to give you your money in cash and collect the item .

Ok, I explain, a Chronopost agent will come to your home to give you an envelope containing your money, and once you have verified your money, you will give him the object to send it to me .

OK no worries but what time are you available tomorrow?

Ok so to make the sending, I need your

Name / First name :

Address / City / Postal Code :

Total amount :

E-mail address :

Time of visit Tomorrow :

-End of the chat-

PLEASE DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY DETAILS.

DO NOT ARRANGE ANYTHING JUST REPORT THEM.

Thanks,

M

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I have just got the same message.

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Same words! Exactly the same!

Just received I checked online because sound strange and find your post!

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my wife has just been scammed in the same way using exactly the same words ... We are in UK and chronopost is French easy to mock up something that looks plausible as a company email as none has seen it in UK before luckily we read this and decided to back out.

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Had exactly the same conversation, but smelt a rat from the start. Sent them an amusing 'scammer' GIF. Felt a lot better for it 😂

Blocked it and attempted to report it to Facebook. But they were not interested, despite the fact that I pointed out that it fell within their criteria of a threat to the community! 🤨

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Has anyone gone through with this and what is the outcome, my wife was bombarded with many messages because of posting in many places on market place, the second she said no another message came in "is this still for sale"

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I had the same conversation just now. Stupidly I gave my name, address, time of delivery and email. They sent an email, but I did not reply to the email and blocked and reported it.

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I had almost the same conversation word for word, once I said that didn't work for me the person disappeared from messages immediately I couldn't report as scam unfortunately.

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happened twice to me, the first one ended the conversation, second just now. I have blocked. Same conversation.

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