Concerned About Marketplace Scammer – Gave Address to Potential Buyer Who Now Seems to Have Blocked Me

aplle7

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Hello All, I’m worried about recent Marketplace Messages. Here is the story…
I posted a free cotbed on marketplace as my little one has now got a new bed, we didn’t want anything for it as it’s 9yrs old. A girl messaged me about it, asked if she could collect this afternoon, I agreed, she sounded really interested and I said once your leaving let me know and I will send you my address.
A couple of hours later she messaged and said we are leaving in 15mins, can I have your address now, so I gave it to her. I asked where she was coming from she said Brighton Hill, about a 30min journey. 2hrs later, she hadn’t turned up. I tried to message her through marketplace to ask if she was still coming and the message didn’t go through. Turns out she has blocked me and I can’t find her on here.
I’m now really worried as she has my name & full address. Should I be concerned people?
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I don't think there's much she could do with your name and address - anyone could find it if they wanted it. Mine is publicly availalbe on my website etc and never had any problems.
 
Sounds to me like she has realised how far it actually was to go and instead of just telling you she had Changed her mind she had blocked you instead x
 
Considering you have your full name here and where you live on your profile, you can find your details and address in less than 5 minutes.
She probably just changed her mind. Loads of time wasters on Facebook.
 
This happened to me a few months ago, last message was a 'be there in 30mins' then it was a no show and he didn't answer my message. So I'm thinking, this complete stranger has my name and address. I looked on his profile and he looked like a proper wrong un🤦‍♀️
 
@kobiewhite I’ve had people so that to me and then not responded to the I’m here message due to no signal or just not having their phone on them at the time and I’ve been sat waiting for a house number and I’ve left a couple of times fuming as travelled all that way to be sat in their road and not wanting to knock on 30+ doors looking like a lemon going door
To door. 🙈
 
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