Protect yourself against Internet fraud!
The vast majority of listings are posted by honest people that can be trusted.
Despite this, it is very important to follow a few common sense rules to prevent any attempt at possible scams which do happen much to often on the internet.
Keep these few things in mind when contacting any poster, if you believe any listing or poster on Kiijiji.com seems suspicious, contact us with the complete ad title so we can investigate further.
Our advice
- Only do business with people you can meet in person.
- Never send money by Western Union, MoneyGram or any other anonymous payment systems.
- Never send money or products abroad.
- Do not accept checks.
- Ask questions about the person you're dealing with, try to confirm their name, address and telephone number.
- Keep copies of all correspondence (emails, listings, letters, etc.) and details of the person.
- Remember, if a deal seems too good to be true, it probably is NOT true.
Recognize attempted scam
- The majority of scams have one or more of these characteristics:
- The person is abroad or traveling abroad.
- The person refuses to meet you in person.
- Payment request through Western Union, Money Gram or check.
- The messages seem to be in broken english with very poor grammar which possibly could indicate an individual in a forgein Country trying to run a scam, refer to first line of advice above!
- The texts seem to be copied and pasted.
- The deal seems to be too good to be true.
