Quote from: Charles-Tim on Today at 01:58:56 PM

Why did you give out your number? You can easily avoid any scam attempts but it can lead to people you do not know to be spamming you. Try to avoid it next time. Do not give out your phone number.

This is also no more new on this board. I think we should have a single thread for it. Or what do you think?

I'm sure op did not give out his number to the p2p vendor. It looks like the p2p vendor got op contact number from his account. Thesedays people use Opay, palmpay, kuda and other account number that from your contact number. If op made a P2P trader with his phone number as his account number, the p2p vendor might chat him through the fintech bank.

Quote from: Orpichukwu on Today at 02:11:03 PM

Quote from: Charles-Tim on Today at 01:58:56 PM

Why did you give out your number? You can easily avoid any scam attempts but it can lead to people you do not know to be spamming you. Try to avoid it next time. Do not give out your phone number.

Some vendors always add it as part of the rules for sellers to drop their number before they make payment, whose reason is to always make sure they can reach out to the seller if there is any delay in releasing of funds after payment has been sent, but they can also have ill intentions with that number request. We can always avoid those types of buyers if we want.

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That is true mate. This is also another method whereby p2p vendors get people contact numbers.