Guy Shares His Experience Trying to Sell A Couch Online, Every Response is A Scammer

Brad Dickson • Managing Editor

Jul 5, 2022 10:00 AM EDT

This post is a grim narrative of the shocking state of online marketplaces and the exploitative nature of our society. What exactly has the world come to? You can't even sell a couch for $50 anymore without being drowned in a flood of opportunists looking to make a quick buck by accessing your private accounts. Wouldn't these people make more money if they just got a minimum wage job instead? Is low-grade scamming so lucrative that it pays an average income higher than $7.25 an hour?

This thread, which made it into Imgur's top trending posts, was posted to the popular image-sharing site with the title "PSA: Don't share money transfer info with people you don't know. All scams."

The post is comprised of screenshots of Facebook Marketplace conversations with prospective "buyers" who responded to a sale post they made for a used couch. Each of the responders were scammers trying to get personal information out of sellers to access their money transfer accounts and make unauthorized transfers.

This sparked conversation around the topic with readers and serves as an important reminder to be careful about who you are dealing with online. Scams are everywhere, and it's important to watch out for them. Take these obvious scams that people still fall for as great examples.