{"id":380039,"date":"2026-10-06T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=380039"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T15:52:18","slug":"facebook-marketplace-text-scam-it-uses-your-name-to-trick-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-marketplace-text-scam-it-uses-your-name-to-trick-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Marketplace text scam: it uses your name to trick you"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a Facebook Marketplace<\/a> text scam going around right now, and it can make it look like you\u2019re the one selling an item. People are getting SMS messages that say, \u201cIs this still available for purchase?\u201d along with a fake Facebook<\/a> Marketplace screenshot showing their name as the seller. It reads like impersonation<\/strong>. And you don\u2019t even need to have posted the item, or used Facebook Marketplace at all. The goal is to get you to reply, confirm that your number is active, and give scammers a number they can target or resell using details pulled from data breaches or scraped databases, not from a hacked Facebook account.<\/p>\n

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If you use Facebook or any other social platform, don\u2019t brush this off. Even a quick \u201cwrong person\u201d reply can turn into phishing, malware links, payment confirmations, account takeovers, overpayment or refund scams, social engineering, or verification tricks<\/a><\/strong> such as Google Voice<\/a> scams.<\/p>\n\n

So don\u2019t reply, click, call, or scan QR codes. Open Facebook through the app or website and check for yourself, then review your account activity and privacy settings. The numbers alone<\/strong> should get your attention: social media accounted for 38% of fraud losses among people ages 20 to 29 and 47% among people ages 18 to 19 in the first half of 2023. More than 62% of US Facebook Marketplace users have run into scams there, and one in six people worldwide say they\u2019ve been defrauded on the platform.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a Facebook Marketplace text scam going around right now, and it can make it look like you\u2019re the one selling an item. People are getting SMS messages that say, \u201cIs this still available for purchase?\u201d along with a fake Facebook Marketplace screenshot showing their name as the seller. It reads like impersonation. And you … Continue reading “Facebook Marketplace text scam: it uses your name to trick you”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9349,"featured_media":380038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-380039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380040,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380039\/revisions\/380040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380039"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=380039"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=380039"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=380039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}