Facebook Marketplace Scams : Report a Facebook Marketplace scam

Report a seller scam

To report a scam by a seller on Marketplace:

• From your Feed, in the left menu, click Marketplace.
• In the left menu, click Buying.
• Click the listing of the seller you want to report as a scam.
• Click the name of the seller.
• Click , then click Report seller.
• Click Scam, then follow the on-screen instructions to submit your report.

Report a buyer scam

• From your Feed, in the left menu, click Marketplace.
• Click Your account.
• Click Your listings.
• Click a listing that the buyer purchased.
• Click the message between you and the buyer. If you can’t find the message, click See more.
• Click , then click Report buyer.
• Click Scam, then follow the on-screen instructions to submit your report.

Report a listing scam

• From your Feed, in the left menu, click Marketplace.
• Click the listing that you want to report as a scam.
• Below the listing title, click .
• Click Report listing, then click Scam.
• Follow the on-screen instructions to submit your report.

$800,000 Marketplace bust

Facebook has added the ability to post rooms for rent on Marketplace. Housing scams are among the oldest, and a con artist by the name of Ammisetti was recently apprehended for employing this new method to take more than $800,000 from 400 separate victims.

His intended victims are those who rent out rooms. In order to gain the victim’s bank account information to make a deposit, he would pose as someone interested in renting out their room. Ammisetti would call the victim’s bank and report that an ATM deposit he just made is not displaying in the account, making it appear as though he had made a deposit. This was obviously a falsehood.

The bank would credit this sum to the account because it had accepted his claim that he was the victim. Ammisetti would then contact the victim and claim that the deposit was either an accident or that the victim paid too much. He would ask for a partial or complete reimbursement via direct deposit to his own bank.

The bank would take that money back after conducting inquiry and concluding there was never any ATM deposit to begin with. The victim, however, had already deposited some funds to Ammisetti for the reimbursement at that point, and they had been duped.