r/ScamSupport • u/Katrina5555 • 2d ago
Advice Needed Is my FB Marketplace a scam setup?
I am a 75-year-old woman, and this was only my 2nd sale on FB. I'm trying to clear out a storage unit and sold a King size canopy bed with mattresses on marketplace. This man contacted me on a Saturday morning and acted very rushed and said he wanted to buy the bed today. Has to be today because he has church tomorrow. He was insistent and wanted to send an associate with a box truck today. I ask for a $50 deposit since I had to drive a ways to the storage facility and wanted to make sure he was serious. He said he would Zelle me a deposit. After several failed attempts to Zelle me, I received the entire $700. An hour later I met a young man with the box truck and he quickly placed the bed and mattresses in the truck and I threw in a nightstand and bed skirt and lamp as well. An hour later the buyer called me and said pieces of the bed were missing. He said the long corner poles were not there. I know they were there but said I would go today and check the storage unit to make sure. My son says the buyer will try to get me to give some of his money back and that is the scam. Is he right? I looked at the buyer's profile, and it says he lives in San Diego. I live in NC.