Vinted Scam: PlayStation Portal Buyer Claims Wrong Items

A reddit report about a impersonation scam that cost someone Amount not specified. Learn how to avoid falling victim.

There are mean people out there. I sold a PlayStation Portal, packaged it up, made sure to send it fast. Got a message last night that apparently there were batteries, headphones, and earbuds in the box, not a PlayStation Portal, a charging wire, a travel case, and console cover which I packed and took photos of. But man, it sucks. I am from a low income family and barely make enough to feed my kids and pay bills, etc. Yet I sold this as it was going to my youngest son's rugby tournament fund so he could do the team bonding stuff when they are all together next week. Now I am going to have to be that parent that is constantly counting pennies to either make sure he can do it so he doesn't know anything has changed money wise, or be making excuses to why he cannot do certain things because his idiot of a father got scammed on Vinted. No one knows another person's plight but my faith in humanity died a little last night.

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