Soldato
- Joined
- 20 Jun 2005
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- Derby
I've sold a fair bit on Facebook marketplace with no issue. 3090's and many other GPU's.
I added a 3080 the other day, a guy agreed to £600 and popped round the next day. As soon as I saw him it set alarm bells ringing for some reason but I gave him the benefit of the doubt.
I showed him the GPU running in GPUZ but he didn't seem to have a clue then he offered to buy the whole PC. We agreed a price and I started to check how to remove me from windows etc.
As that went on, he said he was in a rush and would take the card that day and return for the PC next day, after I'd freshly installed windows etc.
He fired up Metro on his phone, took my details, made a payment, all good...
....except nothing came into my account. The guy did a search for Metro payment time and it said from 2 hours to 24. He wanted to take the card as the payment "had gone out of his account" and I could take a screen grab of the ref number on his phone as proof. I said it's going nowhere til the money is in my account. This went on for about 15 mins, still nothing came through.
I suggested he collects it along with the rest of the pc the next day and that the payment would have cleared by then. He said ok and then left fairly sharpish!
As you can imagine n o payment came through and his "profile" has vanished from Facebook. I checked his profile before he deleted it, should have screen grabbed! It said he was from Notts but he said he was from Leicester and it most certainly wasn't the guy in the profile pics.
Upon searching "metro fake app scam", a reddit thread or 2 showed this is a thing to scam folk. A guy with an Irish accent was mentioned, which this guy had.
Is it worth noting this with 101, incase there's loads of other scam cases?
I'm just gutted I let him into my office, I feel violated! :O
CCTV cameras are going up tonight, so there's no sneaky visits
I added a 3080 the other day, a guy agreed to £600 and popped round the next day. As soon as I saw him it set alarm bells ringing for some reason but I gave him the benefit of the doubt.
I showed him the GPU running in GPUZ but he didn't seem to have a clue then he offered to buy the whole PC. We agreed a price and I started to check how to remove me from windows etc.
As that went on, he said he was in a rush and would take the card that day and return for the PC next day, after I'd freshly installed windows etc.
He fired up Metro on his phone, took my details, made a payment, all good...
....except nothing came into my account. The guy did a search for Metro payment time and it said from 2 hours to 24. He wanted to take the card as the payment "had gone out of his account" and I could take a screen grab of the ref number on his phone as proof. I said it's going nowhere til the money is in my account. This went on for about 15 mins, still nothing came through.
I suggested he collects it along with the rest of the pc the next day and that the payment would have cleared by then. He said ok and then left fairly sharpish!
As you can imagine n o payment came through and his "profile" has vanished from Facebook. I checked his profile before he deleted it, should have screen grabbed! It said he was from Notts but he said he was from Leicester and it most certainly wasn't the guy in the profile pics.
Upon searching "metro fake app scam", a reddit thread or 2 showed this is a thing to scam folk. A guy with an Irish accent was mentioned, which this guy had.
Is it worth noting this with 101, incase there's loads of other scam cases?
I'm just gutted I let him into my office, I feel violated! :O
CCTV cameras are going up tonight, so there's no sneaky visits
The packet of crisps is mostly air
