Online Shopping Scam Goes International — You Won’t Believe This Story

Be careful before hitting buy now! On this episode of The Jubal Show, we dive into a viral story making international headlines after a man lost tens of thousands of dollars on Facebook Marketplace. The scam was so bizarre that authorities had to issue an official warning to online shoppers everywhere. From phantom products to the most ridiculous things people have actually bought on marketplace apps, this trending segment will leave you shocked, laughing, and double-checking your cart before checkout.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stop what you're doing right now. It's digible show, especially
if you're on the TikTok shop or Facebook marketplace or
Etsy and you're about to hit purchase on some brand
new be dazzled jeans or something. I say that because
authorities had to issue an international warning to people about
a new type of scam that's being used to defraud
people when shopping online. It's ridiculous and one man actually

(00:21):
fell victim to it and it cost him over fifty
thousand dollars. Who We'll tell you what it is next
so you don't fall victim to it, and also tell
you the insane story it's right after this. It's a
double show. Be careful if you buy something online today,
it's a double show because you could get scammed out
of thousands of dollars. There's a story going viral that's
making international headlines about how one guy bought something on

(00:43):
Facebook marketplace, and not only is the whole world talking
about it, but authorities had to issue a ridiculous warning
for anybody who buys anything online. Here's what happened.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Everybody does that. I'm a thirty four.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Year old man from Dusseldorf, Germany, has gone viral after
losing forty seven thousand dollars in a Facebook marketplace scam
involving what was advertised as a military grade invisible helicopter.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
What all right? This is his fault? Continue a.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Police reports state that Klaus Richter, an IT consultant, responded
to an ad claiming the helicopter was developed in the
nineteen eighties by a secret NATO program. What it had
been declassified for quote civilian use. The seller assured Klaus
that the choppers invisibility technology was why there were no
photos of the aircraft.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Oh clown, and despite the lack of proof, Klaus transferred
money via wire and even paid an additional six thousand
dollars for anti bird collision software.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
The invisible helicopter.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
The person that posted this invisible helicopter is feeling really
good about themselves.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Right now, we're going over a story that's international where
a guy got scam him out of forty seven thousand
dollars on Facebook marketplace, and because of that, authorities have
had to issue a ridiculous warning for people who buy
things on Facebook marketplace and online. Will tell you what
that is in a second. But the seller promised to
deliver a special invisible hangar crate oop to his driveway.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh okay, did they catch this invisible people? Well.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Neighbors later reported seeing Klaus pacing in his driveway for
three days, waving his arms around like an airport marshal.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Because if it's invisible, yeah, yourate's gonna come, invisible people.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
When the crate never arrive, Klaus contacted police, who had
to explain that the Airwolf stealth Copter three thousand was
not a real product. How do you not know it's
not a real product with that name, A Wolf stealth
copter three thousand.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Wait, it was on Facebook marketplace that should have given
it away all by itself.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
The story has gone international, with cybercrime officials issuing this
warning if you can't see it, it can't touch it.
And the seller explains that it's because it's invisible, it's
a scam. Don't buy it.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Okay. Well, the original listing and if you had like
the right paperwork, I could see.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Where you could start to.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Believe it at a little bit, because the military classifies
a lot of things.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
So but then the more it gets into it, I
can see like that.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Why would they put it on Facebook marketplace like let's
just say, let's just pretend that invisible things do exist.
If it's military grade, they're not going to be putting
it on Facebook Marketplace. It's going to be like in
the Bermuda Triangle or something, you know what I mean,
like not there.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Interpol even had to issue an alert about a quote
unquote phantom aircraft scam spreading across Europe, with reports of
buyers in Spain and it being due to the paying
for other invisible vehicles, so noting submarines and a space shuttle.
Way I would want to buy an invisible space shuttle
on Facebook marketplace.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, well, I guess there really is a market for
those that are just.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Going to get got. It's just what it is. It's
pretty crazy. Text in for one oh six one. Have
you ever bought something on Facebook marketplace or one of
the other marketplaces that was just ridiculous. Because of that,
people are also sharing things that they've got on Facebook
Marketplace that were ridiculous. Somebody bought a drawing of Jennifer Lopez.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Oh, these are real things. They didn't get duped like,
they actually got them.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, it was advertised as a picture of Jennifer Lopez
that was signed, but it was a drawing. Oh nice
little picture of Jennifer Lopez and colored in crayon.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Wow, I feel like that does not look like it's
a one of a kind piece of arts. You can
take it how you will.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Somebody else paid six hundred dollars for a craft Onion
Bits barbecue sauce.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh onion Bits, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Craft Onion Bits barbecue sauce, and they said it was
because it was like a collector's item in a classic.
So somebody paid six hundred bucks for that.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Craft barbecue sauce.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
I guess if you can collect sauces, that would be
one you'd want your collection.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
You can just go to the store and buy it.
Not if it's a collector's item.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Nay, are you kid? I'm not gonna. I'm not going
to right now.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Somebody texted in AIX and said, I'm totally buy this.
Somebody texted in at four one to six one and
said they paid one thousand dollars for an olive garden sign. Okay,
I didn't say where they got the sign, the person
that they bought it from, but it's neon.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
If it really has all garden, yeah, close down story okay,
red stick.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Somebody else texted in at four one of six win
and said they paid six hundred and fifty dollars for
a stainless steel prison toilet.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Oh, why, that's actually interesting. How much do they spend
against six hundred fifty bucks. I'm black down cheap. Yeah,
that is not that bad. Why would you want that?

Speaker 3 (05:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
It's like it's another conversation piece, and I can just
like picture somebody's like dungeon of a basement and they're like,
look what I have down here, or.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Just in the middle of the living room and it's
like a special chair.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Oh okay,