Overview
- Danielle Pickett says she handed over her iPhone after a buyer showed a bank transfer confirmation, but the £400 payment never arrived.
- Messages from the purchaser's account warned that they knew her address and threatened to make her life a living hell after she raised the alarm.
- Greater Manchester Police confirmed a complaint has been submitted and said the crime report is being allocated to an officer.
- Pickett shared CCTV and a screenshot of the purported transfer, and she says multiple women later identified the same man from her post.
- Meta said Marketplace now uses verification checkpoints and message filtering for suspicious accounts, and it urged secure payments and public meet-ups.