Just a quick note to remind everyone to be careful when responding to messages through your Zibbet account, here through your Community account or through your personal email account(s). Unfortunately, spammers and scammers are a fact of life online today. Here are some tips on how to recognize a message from a spammer/scammer:
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!If the message contains questions that can be answered by reading your listing, then it's most likely a spam/scam message. Questions concerning obvious facts about an item such as price and availability are dead giveaways that the inquiry isn't legitimate.Requests for you to contact the person directly instead of through your Zibbet or Community account is another clue. This is most likely an attempt to harvest active email addresses for other spam/scam activities.Requests for you to call the person on the phone is another ploy spammers/scammers will use.Discussion about a courier coming to pick up the item is common in spam/scam messages.
Any time you receive a message with any of these characteristics, contact us at support@zibbet.com. Be sure to include the username of the individual so that we can quickly track them down and close the offensive account.
Do not respond to the message from the sender! That only encourages them. The best response to a spam/scam message is no response at all.
Be safe!
Vicki
Zibbet Support
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