[anonymous5133]

I never knew how many fake profiles exist on facebook until I tried to buy a $10 amazon gift card with paypal in one of the groups I was joined. I missed all the red flags. First, the profile was an attractive female with little account activity. Second, when I tried to send the paypal payment it defaulted to PHP currency (Philippines money) even though the seller said they lived in the United States. Third, the account was non-us unverified. Then when the person actually did scam me, they immediately deleted the profile.

Needless to say, that was the last time I trusted random people on facebook.

[wolco]

Just curious have you tried this before with success or heard about a friend trying this?

Was the deal extremely good 90% off or more reasonable 20/30%?

[thatoneuser]

What was this scam?

[yyy888sss]

There are groups (on Discord, Facebook) where people sell Amazon gift card codes for less than the value of the gift card. Sometimes they are real codes that have been bought with accounts that have been hacked through email phishing, and sometimes they are completely fake.

[whenchamenia]

Yup, buddy had his amazon account banned for using such cards. His gf, who orders 10 things a day from there, and shared the account, was not impressed.