Inside the Wallapop and Vinted Scam Playbook: Fake Payments and Shipping Traps

Inside the Wallapop and Vinted Scam Playbook: Fake Payments and Shipping Traps

Almost every scam on Wallapop and Vinted begins with the same demand: move the conversation elsewhere. A buyer who prefers WhatsApp, a link to “receive” a payment, a courier that is supposedly cheaper than the platform’s own service. Once a user accepts, the protection that makes a marketplace safer than a classifieds board vanishes. TechNews … Read more