Periodically, Zibbet experiences an outbreak of new spam/scam accounts. Because Zibbet allows account registration without moderation, it’s impossible for us to prevent this from happening from time to time. While this is annoying, learning how to recognize spam/scam message is easy. Please don’t respond to a message from a Zibbet account that…

…requests that you respond directly to their email address (more…)

There it was, sitting sweetly in my in-box: an e-mail inquiry about one of my items listed on Zibbet! With great anticipation I opened the message to read what sounded too good to be true. As I reread the message, I realized that it was just that–too good to be true. Excited anticipation turned into deflated disappointment. (more…)

In today’s digital world, the opportunities for sending and receiving unsolicited and inappropriate communications are virtually limitless. Recently, multiple Zibbet sellers and Community members were the recipients of several such communications, commonly referred to as spam. According to Merriam-Webster Online, spam is defined as unsolicited usually commercial e-mail sent to a large number of addresses. Scams, which (more…)

Unfortunately we have attracted another Scammer.  As we get more and more well known this is going to become more prevalent.  We will be sure to let you all know about it whenever this is brought to our attention.  We don’t want our sellers getting scammed!!

This new scammer has the username, ‘emmanuelcarl’.  (more…)

Have You Been Contacted By a JohnnyCool??

‘JohnnyCool’ (his Zibbet username), also known as ‘John Abe’ is contacting sellers and asking them to transact off the Zibbet website.  He is telling sellers that he will send them a ‘cashiers check’ and use his ‘personal shipper’.  He will also ask you to contact (more…)