'My brother will pick it up, what's your PayID?' How to avoid this scam when selling stuff online
- Written by: Cassandra Cross, Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology
Jenny Ueberberg/UnsplashYou’ve done it. You’ve finally bought that new sofa you wanted so much. The old one is still perfectly good to sit on, so you jump online to try and get a little bit of cash for it.
Every day, thousands of Australians list their unwanted things on online trading sites such as Facebook Marketplace and Gumtree....