Please be careful. Scammers plague the net for the desperate. Read the whole thing for some extra details you may want to know.
It was bound to happen.
It’s a supply and demand thing.
Whenever there’s heightened demand for a product — any product — and a limited supply, the scammers swoop in.
Because of the ammunition shortage, conmen are now targeting unsuspecting gun owners via Facebook Messenger and other social media platforms.
They’re offering fantastic deals, such as $35 for a brick of 1,000 small rifle primers, and $467 for a case of 55gr Remington 5.56.
Man, if only it were true.
They’ll take your money via PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Zelle.
The only problem is the ammo and primers don’t exist.
Scammers targeting gun owners on social media, offering cheap ammo and primers – The Gun Writer
As opposed to the “legitimate,” more established scammers like certain on-line gun and ammo websites.
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Oh, the irony of “spambot RT” commenting on this post is almost too much.
Many of these scammers are overseas. Various African countries, India, etc., and they usually only “accept payment” via unsecured and unguaranteed methods.
As a result, the actual enforcement and legal repercussions for them are nil.
Best thing I can recommend is to report and block these scammers, force them to keep opening new accounts, and look for and join anti-scammer groups on your social media platform of choice.
There are a few key red flags for identifying scammers before you or anyone else get took.
New and recently opened accounts.
Links to relatively unknown websites that magically have everything in stock at pre-covid prices.
Demands for unsecured payment methods.
Poor English skills.
Lack of apparent familiarity with the products advertised.
Claimed locations that do not mesh with local law for that location (such as Gen5 Glocks for sale in CA or NY).
Pushiness to make a sale.
And dismissiveness or defensiveness about any of the above factors.
I have used PayPal once or twice, but only with known parties. When purchasing stuff, especially from people I don’t know (like on eBay) I use a credit card. The reason is that I have recourse if it turns out to be a scam; someone else gets stuck with the loss, not I.
I have known about this scam for months. I even posted a comment about it in the discourse.
I have done customer service and tech support for several years. One of my jobs was technical support on computers. Literally half of the calls we got and on some days over half of all the calls I got was people calling in because they saw something and was unsure it was a scam or fell for a scam. The smart ones would stop and call us first. Those were pretty easy. Some the scammer had been on there computer. Cleanup there computer of whatever the scammer did and possibly refer them to either there credit card company or social security. You would never think people are that stupid but they are that stupid. A lot of elderly people but a lot of people in there late 20’s and early 30’s. I would even have customers call me after they got scammed and thought I was a scammer and yell at me. Once had someone give a scammer $25,000 in target and Walmart gift cards. They never stopped to think about that. I told her, she did not believe me and hung up. I wonder about that lady sometimes if she killed herself after she figured it out based upon her emotional state as a person.
Never assume your customers are stupid, but never forget that they are.