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'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
'My brother will pick it up, what's your PayID?' How to avoid this scam when selling stuff onlineJenny Ueberberg/Unsplash

You’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....

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