Yes, yesterday I almost fell for a P2P scam. Mine was the regular way these merchants always try to set people up. I had placed an order, and he approved that he had sent the amount to my account, but he did not. I told him he insisted I release it because he had sent it and I would see it in less than 5 minutes. I knew he wanted to scam me, so I left him and slept off. He then knew I wasn't going to fall for his trap and sent the money after so many hours.
I still don’t know how one can be scammed through p2p platforms because everything is well explained and many disclaimers are there to let you know not to release the coin if you haven’t received the money. You can even go to the extent of trying to send the money you’re sent out in order to confirm if it was not faked alert or just dust money. I haven’t experienced such but just saying to confirm that the money was actually received in your account before releasing the coins.
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But waking up this morning, a friend of mine had similar issues, but this time the scammer came with a little twist. My friend told me he had placed an order for $70 since he needed some funds. As he wanted to click the sell button, the price changed, and he refreshed it again. So he bothered not to check again and procedd with the order as he got the alert in his phone he saw that the merchacnt changed the order from $1 = 1,460 Naira to $1 = 1,270 Naira.
I have not experienced such before and I never knew a merchant can change the price after an order have been placed. This is in fact a criminal act that need to be punished immediately. I only check to see if the actual amount was sent and sometimes the order won’t go through unless the ads is refreshed due to price update. In this type of situation, I go back to the main page and chose a new ads entirely.
