On Vinted, buying a garment sometimes amounts to playing the lottery: either you find nuggets, or we come across less qualitative parts. And this new kind scam does not help anything …
The ransom of success. In recent years, Vinted has been living in the summits. Its number of users has only explored since its arrival (there are 23 million); And the French are more and more numerous to appreciate it – as proof, it is the first seller of clothes on the past year. But the thugs are often where business is good … Thus, Vinted is the nest of countless well -crafted scams. After the scam with empty package, that of fast fashion clothes presented as vintage or even, counterfeits legitimized by profiles with false positive opinions; A new scam is raging on the platform from Lithuania. Index: it is based on progress in technology.
Malandrins have resorted to artificial intelligence to embellish their excess ads. Result ? Deceptive photographs of fashion accessories, clothing and shoes, far from looking like reality … enough to distort the sale in fine. Because if the Vintie wanted this garment in particular, it is because it seemed more beautiful in the photos than in fact. However, when he receives the package and discovers that what he bought does not look like what he saw, necessarily, he feels wrong. He who thought he was buying a quality garment was just fooled.
Many have already paid the price: “It does not allow you to see the condition of the garment so it distorts the sale a little …”comment @Mlodibvbl On Instagram. “I bought a dress from a seller like that, result the article had nothing to do with it! It was abused the difference”, still tells @zoe_bouvault.
Concretely, ill -intentioned sellers use AI to erase the faults of the parts, smooth their texture, erase the bouloches, remove the stains, arrange the length, create a flattering cut etc. If the practice already existed with photo editing software, AI facilitates it and grows it even further. It even allows experienced sellers to create pictures where said clothes are worn by someone when it is not. Worse, some create images of clothes that do not exist to “sell” them and make money.
Pointed out by our colleagues from Release then BFM Businessthis scam grows day by day. But just stay attentive to protect yourself. Often, the advertisements doped at AI have a few “Anomalies, like an extremely flexible hand”, reports journalists. So open the eye.
