Possibly fraud Vinted

skippinghare

I listed an item on Vinted.
I received a message saying send pictures of the item to her email as she was having problems to see on her Cinted app.
She thanked me for the photo and told me she paid for the item. But I couldn’t see the item in my sold list so I contacted her. Also I didn’t receive any notification from Vinted.
She sent me a link to her payment and there was “withdraw fund” bottom on it. 

I never seen this before so I contacted her again and she advices me to use “chat” for advice.
Chat said I need to fill in the form to get the payment, then they will make authorization with my bank.
I received a text message from my bank saying “we will send you a text for confirmation but think twice before you reply to text. There are lot of scams.”. (I found this text was not from my bank. It was a part of the  scam!”). 

I received a text “555pounds at Transfergo Germany if the transaction is yours, please reply Y.” Meanwhile chat told me 555pounds is just number to confirm my ID so there will be no transaction happen.” But I felt suspicious and I didn’t reply.

I reported to Vinted but  it seems so complicated way of taking money for the fraudulent. 

They spend all day to communicate with me (several emails, sending me a link, chat and text.) also revealing her name and email address seems strange…

Anyway I wanted to share my experience with anyone who sells on Vinted for warning.

Emmia

This sounds like she was trying to get an off platform transaction, with the effect that you'd have sent the goods but the money would never have appeared, or worse you'd have authorised a payment from your account of an amount like £555.

Vinted wouldn't have covered you as you'd done the transaction outside their infrastructure.

You should have responded to her first message stating you only take payment through the vinted app, and from that perspective the item is still for sale, not sold to them.

The fraud relies on you blindly following the prompts, we're all familiar with these types of authentication for transactions so they don't always raise red flags - I'm glad you didn't fall for it.

LightFlare

skippinghare said:

I listed an item on Vinted.
I received a message saying send pictures of the item to her email as she was having problems to see on her Cinted app.
She thanked me for the photo and told me she paid for the item. But I couldn’t see the item in my sold list so I contacted her. Also I didn’t receive any notification from Vinted.
She sent me a link to her payment and there was “withdraw fund” bottom on it. 

I never seen this before so I contacted her again and she advices me to use “chat” for advice.
Chat said I need to fill in the form to get the payment, then they will make authorization with my bank.
I received a text message from my bank saying “we will send you a text for confirmation but think twice before you reply to text. There are lot of scams.”. (I found this text was not from my bank. It was a part of the  scam!”). 

I received a text “555pounds at Transfergo Germany if the transaction is yours, please reply Y.” Meanwhile chat told me 555pounds is just number to confirm my ID so there will be no transaction happen.” But I felt suspicious and I didn’t reply.

I reported to Vinted but  it seems so complicated way of taking money for the fraudulent. 

They spend all day to communicate with me (several emails, sending me a link, chat and text.) also revealing her name and email address seems strange…

Anyway I wanted to share my experience with anyone who sells on Vinted for warning.

I would guess the chances of these details being true are somewhere between nil and zero

soolin

This is unfortunately a very common scam it rarely works as it relies on several fairly obvious dodgy moves , as soon as someone asks for more photos 'off Vinted' it's obvious they want your email address for nefarious reasons. The whole 'I can't see the pics clearly on Vinted, send me more' is a daft statement if you really think about it.

Once they have your email they can easily knock up dodgy messages purporting to be from whoever they want to pretend to be. This happens across a lot of platforms, an email address is a useful tool to have if you have it alongside other info from the seller and they are unused to online  banking and how it works.

Other fairly large red flags, item sells, but doesn't show on Vinted (not possible)., paying off Vinted (why?) a poor attempt at pretending it is an escrow system , it is a really poor attempt at a scam and I suspect there's nothing Vinted can or will do except remind users to only deal with other parties through the Vinted system.

These scams might seem overcomplicated but the messages are all cut and paste, a good scammer can have dozens if not hundreds of people on the hook at a time and perhaps if just one person in a thousand falls for it they might make something. Usually the big scam comes at the end once they realise they have someone gullible hooked. They will accidentally send too much money and ask the recipient to return the overpayment by way of a gift card or transfer. They don't actually want the item as they aren't ever going to release an address, they want cold hard cash.