Gumtree Advert to sell furniture - received a What's App message from Emilie <Removed> stating she lives in Liverpool at <Removed>, Liverpool, <Removed>. Said she had paid the sum of £250 and sent me a form to fill out asking for my bank details including long card number, expiry date, balance of my account and three digits on the reverse of the card. I was a bit suspicious as I couldn't understand why you had to put your balance on and then when you submitted it you had to type in a code sent to you by text to activate Google Pay, the bank sent me a text luckily saying to check this and I rang them. They told me that someone else had set up a Google pay on another type of phone than the one I had and it was likely to be a scam. In the meantime I had loads of messages from Emilie asking have I put in the code and then asking me for the code. I told her the bank had stopped the card and then she kept asking me for the card being unstopped. I contacted Gumtree and they said that you should never have to put in your card number for a credit only your account number. They told me it was a scam, so I had to cancel my card. Again like the others they offered to have it collected by Courier. I also received another text on What's app from another number asking if it had been sold, but I said I had someone on trying to scam me and they never got back in touch. The link they sent was <Removed> Sent from <removed> and they even sent me a copy of the Gumtree Delivery instructions, so beware these people are clever. They have not credited any money for the goods you are selling only trying to empty your bank account.
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