09/03/2026
Meta removed over 159 million Scam ads and 10.9 million fake accounts across Facebook and Instagram last year, and the same handful of tricks kept showing up on Facebook Marketplace.
Rentals listed far below market price. Fake giveaways promising you've "been selected." And sellers pushing you to pay outside the app with a discount as bait.
None of it was real. The rental never existed, the giveaway just wanted your card details, and paying outside the app meant zero protection the moment it went wrong.
If this happens to you, don't just block and move on. Save their username, phone number and email, their profile link, the bank account number and bank name they used, and screenshots of the listing and full conversation.
Without that, there's nothing to trace the Scammer back to.
Then report it through Unscammed.
We'll send it straight to the FBI, FTC, your bank, and the police, all in under 10 minutes.