{"id":13881,"date":"2025-06-05T17:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13881"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T05:16:20","slug":"man-arrested-after-stealing-150000-of-facebook-marketplace-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13881","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after stealing $150,000 of Facebook Marketplace goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 36-year-old man has been arrested over fleecing Facebook Marketplace users of $150,000 worth of goods.<\/p>\n<p>Detective senior sergeant Ryan Bunting said the arrest came after an investigation into a man who was wanted in relation to 17 deals between November 2024 and April this year.<\/p>\n<p>Bunting said the man was alleged to have been involved in Facebook Marketplace deals for 17 different vehicles or high value items including phones and jewellery.<\/p>\n<p>The man is alleged to have attended public places to meet the sellers and do bank transfers described as looking very real, including using fake IDs and fake drivers licenses.<\/p>\n<p>However the sellers have let the goods go with the offender before later realising no transfer has occurred.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Several vehicles have been recovered and further enquiries are ongoing,&#8221; Bunting said.<\/p>\n<p>He said police were not ruling out further charges.<\/p>\n<p>The man is set to due to appear in Wait\u0101kere District Court on Thursday facing 17 charges of obtaining by deception.<\/p>\n<h3>Advice from police when buying or selling on online platforms<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Insist on meeting to conduct transactions and examine the item before completing the transaction.<\/li>\n<li>Meet in a public place and take a friend.<\/li>\n<li>Do not go into someone&#8217;s house or allow them into yours.<\/li>\n<li>Do not deposit money into another person&#8217;s account before you have received the item.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that cleared funds have arrived in your account, don&#8217;t rely on sellers ID, screenshots or viewing funds being transferred on an app.<\/li>\n<li>Trust your instincts &#8211; if it&#8217;s too good to be true or sounds like a scam, it probably is<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>~VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 36-year-old man has been arrested over fleecing Facebook Marketplace users of $150,000 worth of goods. Detective senior sergeant Ryan Bunting said the arrest came after an investigation into a man who was wanted in relation to 17 deals between November 2024 and April this year. Bunting said the man was alleged to have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,222,208,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13883,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions\/13883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}