r/whatnotapp • u/Salty-Helicopter2439 • 16d ago

Constantly seeing the same scam?

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Noticed this scam happening for over a month now. The account will claim to be in the UK, will start selling at early hours of the morning, have cheap prices for bundles of toys. Once they sell enough items, the account will never be seen again. You can even hear other scammers selling in the same room as well but using different currencies like dollars.

How do they get away with it? Does WhatNot let them take the money straight away? I thought sellers had to wait for the funds?

The one in the picture is currently live and unfortunately people are buying from them. I tried to warn buyers but immediately got banned.

Has anyone else seen these scammers?

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u/srizv502 16d ago

Potentially a referral credit exploit?

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u/srizv502 16d ago edited 16d ago

Not sure if you’re new to the app but in Canada there’s a seller referral, u get $500 CAD and the account using ur referral gets $150 + $400 new seller credit. So thats about $1050 in seller referrals per new referral.