Site logo image ScamicideScam of the day – September 12, 2023 – Facebook Marketplace Zelle Scam

Steven Weisman, Esq.

Sep 11

Facebook Marketplace is a popular and convenient place for people to buy and sell things so, of course, scammers are drawn to it. Scams on Facebook Marketplace increased 184% last year. A new scam turning up on Facebook Marketplace starts when you list an item for more than a few hundred dollars. Shortly thereafter you are contacted by a scammer posing as a legitimate buyer who wants you to use Zelle, Venmo or some other P2P Service to pay you for the item. Peer to Peer Payment Payment Services (P2P) such a Zelle are used by many people to quickly and conveniently send money electronically from your credit card or bank account. Sending money through Zelle only requires you to enter the recipient's phone number or email address.

Then the fun begins (for the scammer). You next receive an email that purports to have been sent by Zelle indicating that the buyer paid you through a Zelle "business account" and that you need to upgrade your personal Zelle account to a business account in order to receive the payment from the scammer posing as the buyer. You are then told that in order to upgrade your account, the amount sent to you needs to be increased by $300. The scammer then tells you that he or she will gladly send you an additional $300 through Zelle in order to enable the transaction if you merely refund the excess payment to them through Zelle. Of course, soon after refunding the $300, which was never paid by the scammer to begin with, the scam victim realizes he or she has just been scammed out of $300.

TIPS

Unfortunately, Zelle has proven to be easily exploited by scammers and unlike scams targeting your credit cards directly, you may not have as much protection under the law to get your money back if you do get scammed. Although the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued guidelines last year indicating that all online money transfers such as this that were done as a scam should be reimbursed by the bank, many banks are refusing to refund money lost by the scam victims.

Following many complaints from scammed Zelle customers about the difficulty in getting their money back from their banks after being scammed, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Robert Menendez contacted EWS, the network that operates Zelle, telling it that it had to provide "appropriate redress to defrauded customers." As I reported to you in a December Scam of the day, it appears that the banks that operate Zelle appear to be close to enacting rules to provide for better protection of consumers from Zelle fraud, however, those new rules have not yet been put into effect. https://scamicide.com/2022/12/23/scam-of...be-coming/

Also, while Zelle has business accounts, you don't need to upgrade your account in order to receive a payment from a Zelle business account. Frankly, I don't think anyone should use Zelle, Venmo or any of the other P2P services for anything other than sending small amounts to friends and family. The potential for scams is too great and your ability to get reimbursed is low.

Finally, anytime someone sends you an overpayment for whatever reason and asks for you to send funds back, you should be skeptical as this is always a scam.

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This is the first year that i did not follow along. I practically have all the names memorized.

My fireman Dude was first responder/ second wave.

I counselled him even years later.

Of course due to damage he died very young. Lungs are not meant to be exposed to such horrors.

God, be holding all your children in Heaven as I write.

Esp Fireman Dude. Our country grieves for them forever.

And, if that was done as some master plan for the monies in the building, make sure those ones are in Hell even as I speak.

Nonethless, I salute all our heroes. Grant those still living the peace that surpasseth understanding.

I overheard my houseshare listening to a female whom called a radio station cuz Facebook officials would not listen to her.

Seems, she honestly believes that "They" are putting up deer crossing signs in terrible areas. Why, it would be way too dangerous for them to cross at them thar signs.

She honest to God feels, when our country is fighting becoming communist, and many dont have food, that the gvt should find better and safer places to put up signs for the deer to cross.

Uhm, she doesn't realize that deer just so happen to cross at a certain location and eventually the gvt puts up a warning about same cuz many of us would not want to hurt a deer. And yes it can destroy cars and all. Not to mention the deer.

She sounded to be stupid and in her early thirties.

Please have the gvt put up deer crossing signs in areas wherein it is safest for them to do it.

I reckon she does not realize yet that the vast majority of deer do not yet read.

Lock down schools for 2 years. Bring in insane shop teachers whom are trying to be trans something with gigantic wooden breasts.

And people's educational levels go down the tubes.

I could bring her to tears should i tell her the truth.

Idiots to the left of me, jokers on the right, here i am, stuck in the middle with some of you.

Former basketball coach in California sentenced to 150 years in prison for sexually assaulting 4 girls
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A former basketball coach in Southern California was delivered a 150-year sentence in prison on Wednesday after being convicted of sexually assaulting four girls more than ten years ago.

Carlos Francisco Juarez, 48, was found guilty of 21 different felony counts in July for the assaults of minors between 2005 to 2010, according to a statement from the Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. The girls were between 11 and 17 years old when the assaults took place, per NBC News.
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Spitzer said Juarez was "in a position of trust and authority over these young girls and he took advantage of them," adding that "[y]outh sports should be a safe environment where neither parents nor athletes should have to worry about children being targeted by a sexual predator."



Spitzer subsequently praised the four women for coming forward for their bravery in helping lock up "another child molester."


The report said that the youngest of Juarez's victims, 11 years old at the time, was taking private lessons from Juarez at a gym in Tustin in 2005. He apparently forced the girl to practice topless. She testified that Juarez handed her an envelope fully of money after he sexually assaulted her.

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A second girl, who was 13 years old at the time, was apparently subjected to numerous instances of sexual assault by Juarez after he moved into her home. The abuse continued for four years.



Spitzer's officer said that the 13-year-old female basketball player was told to perform sex acts on Juarez in exchange for becoming a starter on the team.

Juarez also sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl who was taking basketball lessons from him in 2008.

Juarez was found guilty of 10 counts of lewd acts upon a child under 14 years old; 7 counts of lewd acts upon a child; 2 counts of oral copulation of a minor; and 2 counts of sexual penetration by foreign object of a minor, per CBS News.


While Juarez primarily worked as a club basketball coach, he did work at different high schools in the area. Two of the main schools were Costa Mesa and Tustin, according to the district attorney's office.

Kenneth Reed, Juarez's attorney, reportedly said he was prepared to file an appeal following the conviction.

There have been several major cases of sports coaches and athletic experts being accused or found guilty of sexual assault against children. Larry Nassar, who was previously employed by Michigan State University, was accused by 150 women of sexual assault. He was eventually arrested in 2016.

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ONE CHIP CHALLENGE. ALLEGEDLY KILLED ONE.

Company Pulls Spicy Chip After New England Teen's Death
The company that makes the impossibly spicy viral product has pulled the "One Chip Challenge" from shelves after the family of a 14-year-old New England resident said he died last week after trying to complete it.


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The company posted a statement on its website that it had clearly stated the challenge was for adults only, but they would remove the product out of an "abundance of caution."

"The Paqui One Chip Challenge is intended for adults only, with clear and prominent labeling highlighting the chip is not for children or anyone sensitive to spicy foods or who has food allergies, is pregnant or has underlying health conditions," it read.





Related: Worcester Teen Dies From Trying Spicy Viral Challenge, Family Says
Harris Wolobah of Worcester, Massachusetts, died on Friday, Sept. 1 after coming home from Doherty Memorial High School complaining of a stomach ache after attempting the One Chip Challenge, a GoFundMe said.

Police and paramedics were called to his home on Rustic Drive around 4:30 p.m., where they found the boy unresponsive, Worcester police said. They rushed him to an area hospital, where doctors later pronounced him dead.


The chief medical examiner will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death, but the family blames the viral challenge.

*****The "One Chip Challenge" sold for $10 and came in a coffin-shaped box with a fluorescent skull-and-crossbones on the front. Videos of people trying the challenge and struggling with the results are popular on social media. *****

The challenge is to eat the chip, which contains Carolina Reaper and Naga Viper peppers — some of the hottest in the world — and see how long you can go before taking a drink or eating something to quell the pain.

Carolina Reaper and Naga Viper peppers, respectively, clock in at more than 1.7 and 1.4 million Scoville units, which measures peppers' potency. For context, a jalapeno scores between 3,500 and 8,000 on that scale.


A compilation of people trying the "One Chip Challenge."woladry
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