Scammers infiltrating local online markets to hijack sellers' phones - CBC.ca
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A new scam is targeting people who are selling items online through platforms like Facebook Marketplace and Kijiji in order to take over their phone number and online accounts.
The person posing as a buyer will ask the seller for their phone number — ironically by saying they have been scammed online before and want to be reassured the seller is genuine, Matthews said.
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Once they have the seller's phone number, the person posing as the buyer will then secretly register a Google Voice account which will generate an automated response with a six-digit verification code to the seller's phone, Matthews told CBC Radio's Maritime Noon guest host Brett Ruskin.
That gives the crook access to other online accounts and they can use the vendor's phone number for other scams.
"Now that they have your phone number linked to their Google Voice account, they can actually perpetrate scams through your phone number, so they could pretend to be you and use this phone number for very nefarious purposes," Matthews said.
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