The latest Facebook scam: Moving sale with prices too good to be true!

Well friends, it’s another day and another scam!

This time, it’s a moving sale!

Have you seen posts on Facebook, which some fabulous finds from an estate sale or a moving sale?

Are you looking and thinking, “Holy cow! A 2 year old truck for $12,000! Let me respond right away – and I can have this truck by November 31st!”

You can’t comment on the post because comments are turned off (scammers ALWAYS turn them off because they don’t want to be called out).

So, instead you direct message the seller.

Luckily, you are the FIRST person to respond to the scam… er… sale, and the seller will hold the truck for you for just a $100 deposit! 

All you have to do is send them $100 via “Facebook friends or family” or “non-business Venmo,” and that shiny new Dodge Ram, PERFECT for tailgating, is YOURS!

So you send them the money, post haste and await truck pickup instructions, which they let you know will come in a week or two.

Except… they never come.

Maybe you’re even blocked at this point.

And because you have sent the equivalent of cash, you have absolutely no recourse.

You’re out the $100 and your dreams of showing off your “make Andrew Tate proud” level of alpha manliness disappear into thin air! 

You can’t believe this happened! You’re a victim of the latest Facebook scam.

You see these “quick and cheap moving sale” posts all the time in Facebook groups, but usually they appear on what are obviously fake profiles.

However, the screenshots in this story are from a Facebook friend’s page. I actually almost fell for this one because I knew the seller!

And it’s even trickier that he mentions liquidating his sister-in-law’s house. I mean, I know nothing about his sister-in-law, which definitely works in his favor and makes the scam seem more plausible.

In reality, a hacker had stolen his account and was posting as though he was him – giving the scammer/hacker even more credibility.

Let’s summarize traits of a scam moving sale post:

• Prices are unreasonably cheap
• Comments are turned off
• The photos might not match your location’s environment or season
• You must direct message the poster in order to “reserve a spot”
• A “small deposit” is required – this may or may not be mentioned directly in the post
• You can only deposit the money in a cash-equivalent with no returns form
• Often the moving sale is a result of a sudden tragedy or very fast move for a job
• When you look at the profile, things are “off.” The name might be odd, like “Jesterson Lawrence,” and their “friends” may have similar odd names. There are almost no comments on their posts, and any comments are “off.” Frequently the photos all boast the happiest families ever.
• If you are seeing the post in a Facebook group, they have only been a member of that group for a short time.

Unfortunately – as usual – if it seems too good to be true, it probably is!

Don’t fall for this one, folks!

Stay vigilant and think twice before sending money online.

– Contributed by Melissa Fassel Dunn