A DPD driver will give me the money? Really?!

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I'm just trying to sell a full sized keyboard.

Someone is keen, she said she will send a DPD driver tomorrow, he will give me the money and I don't need to package it.

Is that real? Can that really happen? I've not heard of this before?

Well known scam. Report and block.

I wonder why the police don't set up a 'sting' using this scam - it would be easy enough - then when the 'driver' turned up they could arrest him.

I had a few try it on when selling an item on Gumtree. It was an old (not valuable old, just used old) musical instrument & one scammer wanted to courier it to Holland. It would have cost twice as much to courier as to buy a brand new one, let alone the small price I was asking for the old one!

I just ignored anything that wasn't a straightforward cash on pick up and got a genuine, local buyer within a few days.

I had that one last week. She's working and wont have chance but the driver will give me the £800 for my item.
I laughed and blocked her.

Scammy McScam Face

@Penistoe

Can someone explain how the scam works. If someone (DPD person) takes the item and pays cash. Where is the scam?

Well for a start DPD doesn't offer that service... they don't transport, handle and transfer money they only collect packages.

@JemIsMyNameNooneElseIsTheSame

Well known scam unfortunately.

How exactly does the scam work though? The DPD bit sounds odd, but ultimately someone is handing cash over to you and taking the item. The same as any other sale transaction. I’m assuming there is some kind of twist to it that scams you out of money?

"I really hope you don't sell stuff online!!

As others have said, DPD aren't ever going to do this in the first place.

The "driver" is most likely the scammer or a friend of the scammer.

The money will be counterfeit or they will fob you off with a cheque (that will 100% bounce).

OP then has no keyboard and no payment.

How is that "nothing much to lose"?

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Don't you hate it when quoting won't work!

Nothing to lose in that if the buyer gives cash he gets the keyboard. Otherwise he doesn't. As usual. In any transaction the cash can be counterfeit. I assume you check it! (I do.)

Just a reminder OP that don’t ever accept PayPal and let them arrange a courier collect either- they could scam you and say that the item wasn’t delivered and PayPal will always refund the buyer.

Cash on collection (by the buyer themselves) or PayPal with you arranging courier/postage only!!!

They don’t do it how they say then will. This happened with a friend selling a pram and they said exactly this. Then send a link to a fake DPD page with a link to pay for ‘insurance’ which will then be refunded when the courier picks up the item. Except they just take your money/bank details from the dodgy link and you never hear from them again.

@Mol1628

They don’t do it how they say then will. This happened with a friend selling a pram and they said exactly this. Then send a link to a fake DPD page with a link to pay for ‘insurance’ which will then be refunded when the courier picks up the item. Except they just take your money/bank details from the dodgy link and you never hear from them again.

Thanks that makes much more sense now, after all these people saying it was a scam but not knowing why.

I had not one but TWO lovely gentlemen from Lagos interested in my bargain basement folding bike at the weekend.

Both sent me links to click to see if the bike was like one of these in the link. Cos apparently the squillionty and one pics I posted with the ad cannot have been enough for them to judge for themselves.

I blocked and reported the pair of them. I wonder if their DPD driver would have given me the cash if they had decided to collect the folding cycle from the very small scottish fishing village!

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Aside from all the above dodginess about a courier giving you cash on behalf of a customer, why would they say not to bother packaging it up? However expert a driver the DPD person is, the back of their van is still a big box that delicate items can fall around in and get trashed if not packaged carefully.

A DPD driver is just that: somebody who loads and unloads their van with boxes/packages that they are given and drives it between locations - why would they have anything to do with packaging the items up?

They do actually carry expresspak's - the little bags smaller ticket items up to 5kg are sent in

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Can someone explain how the scam works. If someone (DPD person) takes the item and pays cash. Where is the scam?

They might bring a cheque instead - that bounces ("Oops, I forgot to withdraw the cash in time, so I wrote a cheque - trust that's OK").

They might bring counterfeit cash.

They might have 'forgotten' to get the cash from the buyer, but will 'promise' to get them to transfer it ASAP - whilst they take your valuable item away now.

My money is on the above scam, where the 'buyer' cons the seller into transferring the 'difference' - and then no DPD driver ever turns up at all.

But who would fall for any of that (except the counterfeit cash)?

I guess some would, but can’t imagine people accepting a cheque or a ‘forgotten’ excuse from a random?

I had that last week, also for a keyboard on FB MP. Luckily I'd heard of it as a scam so told them to bugger off and reported them.

I had a few try it on when selling an item on Gumtree. It was an old (not valuable old, just used old) musical instrument & one scammer wanted to courier it to Holland. It would have cost twice as much to courier as to buy a brand new one, let alone the small price I was asking for the old one!

I've heard of people before - apparently based in an African country - who are in the market for a standard used car; BUT, instead of looking for one in their own (or even a neighbouring) country, specced (and legal) to suit their own locality, they've instinctively decided that they will look in, errrrmmmm, yes, the UK - the obvious choice - and source their desired mundane, bog standard Ford Fiesta from there, happily paying twice as much again to transport it over to where they live.

Hmmmmmm...........

Luckily I'd heard of it as a scam so told them to bugger off and reported them.

Far too few people use that wonderful particular 'direction' to ne'er do wells nowadays, more's the pity

I'm not sure it's a scam I've had this before, someone wanted to buy an item, their friend worked for a delivery company that delivered in my area. The driver gave me the cash and I handed over the item. If they give you the cash first I don't see the scam and they can't claim you haven't got the item because giving cash how can they prove they've paid?

I've also had a lady buy a baby rocker from me on Facebook, she paypal the money to me and the arranged an Uber to collect and deliver to her house. All legit! Lol!

I guess some would, but can’t imagine people accepting a cheque or a ‘forgotten’ excuse from a random?

Years ago when I worked in a bank contact centre I took a call from a guy wanting to transfer nearly 2k to some guy he sold something to. The guy had ‘mistakenly’ given him a cheque for double the amount. I told him it was a scam and the cheque would bounce but he wouldn’t listen. I refused to do the transfer and set him up an appointment with the branch and phoned them to tell them to talk sense into him. Not sure if he took my advice he was pretty adamant I was wrong.

Definitely a scam - I had someone try that scam with me. Big no.

I should say they wanted me to use some French registered carrier with a shocking reputation when I googled them

@mneters I know it worked out OK for you with the uber collecting and delivering to the buyer, but if the buyer had said they hadn't received it you wouldn't have any trackable proof of delivery would you? They've got proof of payment via Paypal but there's no proof of delivery?

[quote Singinghollybob]@mneters I know it worked out OK for you with the uber collecting and delivering to the buyer, but if the buyer had said they hadn't received it you wouldn't have any trackable proof of delivery would you? They've got proof of payment via Paypal but there's no proof of delivery?[/quote]
It was sent through PayPal friends and family for that reason, she also sent me the details of the Uber so I could track when they would be there to collect so had that info too!

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

I had a few try it on when selling an item on Gumtree. It was an old (not valuable old, just used old) musical instrument & one scammer wanted to courier it to Holland. It would have cost twice as much to courier as to buy a brand new one, let alone the small price I was asking for the old one!

I've heard of people before - apparently based in an African country - who are in the market for a standard used car; BUT, instead of looking for one in their own (or even a neighbouring) country, specced (and legal) to suit their own locality, they've instinctively decided that they will look in, errrrmmmm, yes, the UK - the obvious choice - and source their desired mundane, bog standard Ford Fiesta from there, happily paying twice as much again to transport it over to where they live.

Hmmmmmm...........

actually, there is a MASSIVE export market from this country to Africa... my brother works in the car trade and is forever complaining about it.

After visiting Africa I'm not too surprised, the cars we hired were practically new but mechanically destroyed due to the environment, the old 'less advanced' the car the hardier they tend to be and less likely to break... stuff from the 80s and 90s is very popular.

I had the same, I was selling a bike over marketplace.
A lovely lady popped up and asked if the bike was still available. She was really really busy with work though so she said she would pay for a DPD delivery driver to collect the bike and drop off Cash.

Cash is always a red flag, especially in large amounts. It's easier and safer to transfer money from bank to bank.

I told her that I don't believe that DPD offers such a service, and I would not be taking cash for this amount, so she asked for my name, full address, postcode, email address, and the amount. So she could send me it.

Obviously, it's a no, but they only had 1 image on their Facebook account, I saved it, added it to google as an image reverse, and it ended up being a French politician haha.

Hi maybe sorry to ask, I encountered something like this and the buyer is also a woman in Belgium. Is it ok for you to refer her name to me? I want to know if this is a scam or not, cuz she’s threatening me that she will sur me if I don’t complete the advance payment