Ont. mother loses $6K during Facebook marketplace transaction
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An Ontario woman is sharing her story after she lost $6,000 by clicking a fraudulent link disguised to look like an e-transfer during a Facebook Marketplace transaction.
An Ontario woman is sharing her story after she lost $6,000 by clicking a fraudulent link disguised to look like an e-transfer during a Facebook Marketplace exchange.
“It looked very legitimate,” Amanda Mazzotta-Sousa told CTV News Toronto.
Mazzotta-Sousa was selling a ‘Diaper Genie’ she no longer needed and listed it on Facebook Marketplace. Not long after, she said someone contacted her to say they would buy it for $40 and sent her a text message with a link that appeared to be for an e-transfer.
In reality, the link took Mazzotta Sousa to a website that ended up draining her bank account.
“I punched in my password and my card number. I pressed sign in and it directed me to another page,” Mazzotta-Sousa said.
After Mazzotta-Sousa did that, the website kept refreshing and the payment never went through. Then, she noticed someone hacked into her and her daughter’s bank accounts, taking $6,000 in total.
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