LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) -- In a time where boiled crawfish is $13 a pound, a local woman is growing concerned after several people have showed up to the front door of her home, ready to buy seafood.
Crabs, crawfish, shrimp and oysters on sale for prices reminiscent of a simpler time. The poster, using several aliases on Facebook advertising, has seafood prices lovers of the Louisiana delicacies are jumping at.
Only one problem, it’s a scam, and the con artists are using a local woman’s address to carry it out.
"It makes me nervous because somebody might come and really get aggravated," she said.
The woman, who wants to hide her identity, tells us in December, three suspecting buyers showed up at her address, ready to pick up seafood they had already paid for through CashApp.
"We told them that we don’t sell seafood. We don’t have any," she explained. "They said okay and they left. The third one that came kind of started getting aggravated and said he wanted his seafood."
Eventually, he would understand the woman had no idea what was going on, and apologized. Even she wasn’t aware of the Facebook accounts using her address until she says she was approached by Wildlife and Fisheries agents.
They showed us the card and everything and then after they left we looked it up and they had like four or five different companies using our address.
The woman’s daughter says their cries have gone unheard.
"We tried getting Facebook to take the post down, they haven’t done it yet; and they just posted again yesterday with our address. So I just want that taken down so that people to coming to my mom’s house," said the woman's daughter.
Crazy stuff, right? Not only to scam someone but to scam them using crawfish is diabolical, in my humble opinion. So a couple things to look out for so that you don’t fall into those same traps.
Pay attention to this, if you come across one of these pages, and they are foolish enough to use an address, look it up. Make sure it’s an actual business, and if there are other “businesses” with different names using the same address. Clearly it’s a scam.
Also, check out the comment section for customer feedback. Sometimes the answer is right in front of us. Just a few things to consider next time you do business online.
If there’s an ongoing issue in your neighborhood or community and you need me to investigate, send me an email at DialDalfred@klfy.com.
