Let me first explain what happened. I use offerup on the daily. I would go on to see what’s new every day. Recently, I’ve noticed may strange ads pop up that would say to text a phone number. So today, I noticed a ad brand new iPhone for a low low price of only $400 which I thought was a steal. The ad like I said to wanted me text a phone number. I knew it was too good to be true so that being the curious person I am, I decided to play along just to see how the scam worked.
So, using a fake number, I texted the person to ask how much was the item. It seemed to be a automatic message. I was really hoping it would be a real person and it later turned out to be a real person.
He asked for my email address and I gave him a spam email and I saw it was a amazon link to buy the item. I then confronted him for being fraud and the amazon page got shut down. I just decided to make a post about this because not many people are not aware about this scam. Now if you see ads that have a highlighted border, it’s automatically a scam. I would also appreciate if you spread this message as more and more people will become aware of this.
And please help me stop this number because I keep seeing his ads everywhere on offerup.com
657-214-3316
Here is a screenshot of the ad. https://imgur.com/a/YJGbo3X