The scammer scam … This is how Gabin got there to get a crook on the Leboncoin site, with ease.
On second -hand and online resale sites, there are many people, hidden behind their screen, to sell non -compliant, non -existent or more expensive products than the initial price. Sometimes these are stolen items that the crooks hastened to resell at low prices to collect a certain sum of money. Finally, very often, thieves use these platforms such as Vinted or Leboncoin to set up more elaborate scams, by encouraging the Internet user to click on a link or to make the settlement on another fraudulent site.
On Tiktok, Gabin alias @levraigabin was just attached to one of these crooks : “I ripped a scammer on Leboncoin“, he announced right away. To start, the young man started looking for his target and for that, nothing very complicated: “You just have to look for a PC or a PS5 with a price far too good to be true“, Like this PS5 sold 100 euros. And that did not miss: at the first message sent, his interlocutor” jumps on him “and offers to leave the internal messaging of the site to discuss more quietly on Whatsapp. Why? Simply because Leboncoin only takes into account what is happening on the site to treat scam business, and the crooks know perfectly the general conditions.
Gabin enters his game. After adding it on WhatsApp, the crook who seeks to extract him 100 euros does not waste time and asks him if he has a PayPal account. Gabin then tries to chat with the pseudo seller, who insists on making the payment. “He tries to create an emergency by scaring me and making me believe that there are lots of people like me who are in a hurry to buy it“, Testifies the young man. Gabin then takes the lead to return the situation against his crook.
He offers to contact a phone number and choose the code at 100 euros so that he can make the payment safely. “The number I gave it is a service like allopass“, He explains to Internet users. Concretely, this code corresponds to a value of 100 euros:”It will take this amount on your phone bill, and transform into code, we put the code on the site and it receives 100 euros. Except that in this situation, it is the crook who gives the code to Gabin, who will therefore receive the 100 euros.
A rather unusual experience that shows us once again how online scammers do. So when you buy a product on a used site, beware of the interlocutors who put pressure to buy their item, and be sure to stay on the site in question to exchange with the seller so as to protect you in the event of a dispute.
