Facebook is rubbish at preventing scammers

[scubascuba3]

Using Marketplace a friend got scammed yesterday by the seller not delivering goods, then of course seller blocks buyer so buyer can't report etc. So i report instead, Facebook didn't remove the profile, there isn't enough options to report as a scammer.

 

Reporting the ad didn't get anywhere either, no response from Facebook. Seems easy to scam people in Thailand, so the scammer will continue

[HighPriority]

It’s got nothing to do with Thailand it’s the fb world.

I received a friend request from a fb friend 2 days after he died… I reported but they didn’t shut the profile down.

I also received one from my aunt, which they also haven’t taken down.

The fb reporting system is a quagmire of bureaucracy.
 

As to your friend, just don’t pay until the item is inspected… convenient ? No.
Is it more convenient than losing your money… yes.

[steevjee]

FaceBook simply does NOT care.

If you are tempted to buy from FaceBook Marketplace NEVER do so if the seller is not local and you cant see the goods in person before making payment.

[scubascuba3]

31 minutes ago, HighPriority said:

As to your friend, just don’t pay until the item is inspected… convenient ? No.
Is it more convenient than losing your money… yes

Not the norm here on marketplace, even for COD you can't inspect the item before paying

[Robert Paulson]

Fb is in on the scam

[ezzra]

In what world a social media market place is a safe place to conduct business and to expect no issues ate all?

There are dozens of market places over the internet and NONE of them is a 100% safe and secured

from scammers as nowadays billions are lost on scammers everywhere...

Edited February 11 by ezzra

[UWEB]

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

Using Marketplace a friend got scammed yesterday by the seller not delivering goods, then of course seller blocks buyer so buyer can't report etc. So i report instead, Facebook didn't remove the profile, there isn't enough options to report as a scammer.

 

Reporting the ad didn't get anywhere either, no response from Facebook. Seems easy to scam people in Thailand, so the scammer will continue

Just don't use FB.

[jerrymahoney]

The famous old Volkswagen ad:

 

 

No Facebook problems -- no Facebook.

[scubascuba3]

1 hour ago, UWEB said:

Just don't use FB.

Where is as good as Facebook marketplace for buying and selling used goods? no not bahtsold that is dead now

[it is what it is]

 

tbh, facebook is primarily a social media application, i'd be very skeptical using if for financial transactions,  especially when there are plenty of applications and web sites designed specifically for this purpose with appropriate built in checks and balances.

[zhounan]

They are too focused on banning and censoring those who do real information.

[scubascuba3]

1 hour ago, it is what it is said:

there are plenty of applications and web sites designed specifically for this purpose with appropriate built in checks and balances.

ah good, which ones in Thailand for buying and selling used goods?

[JimTripper]

You're a man of means, with ample resources, and the character and willingness move on and absorb such losses.

[Cricky]

5 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Using Marketplace a friend got scammed yesterday by the seller not delivering goods

You need to let your friend know what he has done is wrong.

 

I'm sure no one in their right mind would send money to a vendor on Facebook without goods.

 

Its always got to be COD

[scubascuba3]

25 minutes ago, Cricky said:

You need to let your friend know what he has done is wrong.

 

I'm sure no one in their right mind would send money to a vendor on Facebook without goods.

 

Its always got to be COD

As you should know it's the norm on Facebook marketplace 

[Cricky]

9 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

As you should know it's the norm on Facebook marketplace 

I've bought several items on FB marketplace, always do the transaction in person, COD.

 

 

[scubascuba3]

37 minutes ago, Cricky said:

I've bought several items on FB marketplace, always do the transaction in person, COD.

 

 

In person isn't the same as COD which refers to usually a delivery company involved

[Tropicalevo]

Facebook is rubbish at preventing scammers

 

Fixed it.

[Liverpool Lou]

6 hours ago, steevjee said:

FaceBook simply does NOT care.

If you are tempted to buy from FaceBook Marketplace NEVER do so if the seller is not local and you cant see the goods in person before making payment.

I've bought used Montblanc fountain pens from two different Thai vendors on Marketplace with no issues after up-front payments.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, Cricky said:

I'm sure no one in their right mind would send money to a vendor on Facebook without goods.

I did it a couple of times with no issues as have many others, I am in my right mind so perhaps on 100% of the occasions that I used it I just got lucky.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, Cricky said:

You need to let your friend know what he has done is wrong.

 

I'm sure no one in their right mind would send money to a vendor on Facebook without goods.

 

Its always got to be COD

How many times have you actually bought anything using Marketplace?

[puck2]

Many years ago, when I tried to be a member of FB, I stopped it immediately. I would have to deliver too many personal dates.  It's like  rotten sticky pair of gloves, I don't like.

 

 

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, Cricky said:

I've bought several items on FB marketplace, always do the transaction in person, COD.

That is not buying from Marketplace, it is buying face-to-face from someone and paying cash.

[Lemsta69]

6 hours ago, Robert Paulson said:

Fb is in on the scam

 

FB IS the scam! 🤣

[Lemsta69]

15 minutes ago, puck2 said:

Many years ago, when I tried to be a member of FB, I stopped it immediately. I would have to deliver too many personal dates.  It's like  rotten sticky pair of gloves, I don't like.

 

 

 

Same. However too many businesses here in Krung Thep use FB instead of creating their own webpage so I'm forced to use it from time to time.

 

I deleted my real profile years ago but fortunately I have a 'fake' profile with no personal info that I use from time to time. 

 

Even that is probably leaking all my personal info from my phone to the puppet master Zuckerberg. OK, time to put on my tinfoil hat 😉

[Kinnock]

6 hours ago, Robert Paulson said:

Fb is in on the scam

Yes, many of the most persistent scams on FB are 'Sponsored' ads, so there's no incentive for FB to remove them, as they'd lose revenue.

[Cricky]

35 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

That is not buying from Marketplace, it is buying face-to-face from someone and paying cash.

You are wrong.

 

I met the seller on marketplace, then we completed the transaction face to face.

 

I can buy any of these items on marketplace face to face.

 

Sending money then trusting the seller who you don't know or never met to deliver is very strange behavior.

 

 

 

Edited February 12 by Cricky

[Lacessit]

Facebook is rubbish, period. Everyone's personal data gets auctioned off once a year.

 

Never been on it, never will.

[Liverpool Lou]

4 minutes ago, Cricky said:

I met the seller on marketplace, then we completed the transaction face to face.

 

Yes, that's what I said and, as someone else posted, that's not COD.

[Cricky]

32 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

How many times have you actually bought anything using Marketplace?

Several times, I think you are confused.