{"id":606074,"date":"2026-09-20T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/606074\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T09:04:09","slug":"marketplace-vehicle-scam-fake-payment-screenshots-used-to-take-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/606074\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketplace vehicle scam: Fake payment screenshots used to take cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhen you\u2019re selling, never trust a screenshot anyone shows or sends you that says a payment has been made. Check your own bank account to make sure payment has gone through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">Palmer said it was \u201cbest for all parties\u201d to agree to pay, or be paid, for items in cash and in person, ideally in a public place with CCTV coverage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">If you believe you may have been a victim of a scam or this situation may be familiar, report the matter to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen you\u2019re selling, never trust a screenshot anyone shows or sends you that says a payment has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,298658,682,138,6799,37483,17709,6214,2510,111,139,69,4409,675,766,1461,111078,35430,15041,199,19554,61,13797,6845,6861,3608],"class_list":["post-606074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-after","tag-banktransfer","tag-being","tag-business","tag-cars","tag-fake","tag-investigating","tag-marketplace","tag-multiple","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-payment","tag-police","tag-reports","tag-scam","tag-screenshots","tag-sellers","tag-shown","tag-take","tag-taken","tag-to","tag-used","tag-vehicle","tag-vehicles","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}