My DH put some items for sale on Facebook Marketplace yesterday. He had a couple of responses saying something like, 'I would like the item. I will send money in a UPS envelope and send a courier collect the item later'.
When he had the first response it seemed a bit extreme as it wasn't an expensive or unusual item.
The second response was from a similar but not the same name and was almost identical.
I said he should just ignore it as it didn't sound genuine.
Later that day I was speaking to my SIL and she said that one of her friends had exactly the same experience.
I haven't seen anything about this in the media though.
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