MB WAY SCAM
 

I have a listing on OLX 500€.................20 minutes after going live the phone rings, he wants the item............. great me thinks, that was quick !

He insists on paying immediately via MB WAY .......... I say 'dont you want to see it working at least on a watsapp call before you send the courier to fetch it ? (it is an electrical item)

Naaaa he says 'I trust you' I am in lisbon I will pay you straight away then send a courier.

Send the cash with the courier I say ( I have done that before with a sale to a guy in Poland, on EBAY when I lived in the UK, so I know it does work)

Naaaa 'I want to pay straight away so that nobody else gets it' he says (bearing in mind it has been on sale for all of 20 minutes)

Asks me if I have a PT account, Santander I say, great he says, open the app and go to MB WAY ............... at this point I am suspicious enough to tell him that I will put the phone down then ring him back.

The number he used does not accept incoming phonecalls ............................ How many more red flags do you need me thinks.

So my point is, as mi mum used to tell me 'if it sounds too good to be true, it is'

Apparently the scam involves keeping you on the phone whilst your app is open then constantly talking to you in order to confuse you so that you give them the MB WAY code and then they can take the 500€ off of you rather than the other way around, initially I thought it was more sort of software based ie: they take over your app whilst you have it open kind of thing, but apparently it is a lot less sophisticated than that and based purely on confusing you, easily done maybe.

Not this time though................... just thought I would mention it............be careful folks.