Brianna tried to sell her preloved clothes on Depop. Minutes later, she lost $4000 in a cruel sophisticated scam

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Brianna tried to sell her preloved clothes on Depop. Minutes later, she lost $4000 in a cruel sophisticated scam
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Brianna Ireland was hoping to earn some extra cash from selling her preloved clothes. It was the first time the Australian nursing student had used fashion marketplace app Depop to get rid of her unwanted items — including tops, pants, jumpers, skirts and gym wear. Just five minutes after putting her items up for sale on May 1, the 19-year-old began receiving messages from a potential buyer named “Sarah”.

“I’m just so grateful I called the bank when I did, otherwise the payment wouldn’t have bounced back into my account and they definitely would have drained my entire bank account,” she says. “This would have been so horrible, considering I am a full-time university student studying nursing and I moved away from home to study, so I don’t have any financial support from my family.” However, Brianna hasn’t been able to recover the $530 she lost.

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