Imagine a buyer in Sydney finds the perfect used boat on Facebook Marketplace, but the seller is in Queensland. The price is right, but the logistics feel impossible.
How does the buyer send thousands of dollars for a boat they haven't seen? And how does the seller hand over the keys without knowing the funds have cleared? It’s this classic peer-to-peer dilemma that causes deals to stall, or worse, opens the door for scammers.
With online marketplace fraud on the rise, a new wave of tools is helping restore confidence. One Australian-owned platform, TrustEcho, is stepping in to provide a critical layer of payment protection for these exact situations.
