I just listed my Gameboy for sale on Mercari, and the first person to message me was a scammer!

I didn't fall for his bullshit, lol. He claimed that there was something wrong with my bank account, and that was red flag #1. Red flag #2 is when he gave me a very specific and shady email address, posting it to me without hesitation. Red flag #3 was when his Mercari account went inactive, as he claimed to be using another account to purchase from. All the while I'm fighting Mercari who keeps taking down my listing as a "prohibited item" when it's not. Many people sell modded Gameboy's on there, so I don't know what the fuck gives, as far as that goes. Anyway, here's the scammer's bullshit:

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Number 3 at the bottom of the email had me laughing out loud. :rofl2:
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I hope that scammer got what he deserves. Not your Game Boy of course, but rather a good lesson for bullshitting around.
 
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Sounds like a bot, with the stilted English and weird

multiple

messages

formatted like

that.

Happy to hear you avoided the scam! That's never fun to deal with :/
 
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Never had a scammer on Mercari. I get at least 2 a week on Etsy, always the same play.

"It's a gift for brother/cousin/nephew/etc, can you ship to this address instead of the one in the order"
 
Recently tried to purchase a phone on Mercari. Turns out the seller had it listed (and marked sold) on another site as well and ghosted me. It's sad what our version of Mercari is because Japanese Mercari is quite good, though I had a recent purchase there refunded as well because of seller inaction.
 
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