{"id":125205,"date":"2022-05-27T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-132142"},"modified":"2022-05-27T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T22:30:00","slug":"random-south-africans-warned-that-4-nintendo-switches-are-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/27\/random-south-africans-warned-that-4-nintendo-switches-are-a-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: South Africans Warned That $4 Nintendo Switches Are &#8220;A Scam&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/457a9ab9e1c5d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/457a9ab9e1c5d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/457a9ab9e1c5d\/scammy-scam.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Scammy Scam\"><\/figure>\n<p>If you saw a Nintendo Switch selling for just $4, you might assume that Doug Bowser had lost his mind, before buying every single one available \u2014 but perhaps unsurprisingly, in the case of unlucky South Africans seeing the deal on Facebook, it&#8217;s naught but a scam.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Cape Town Etc., a post is circulating on social media site Facebook claiming to have Nintendo Switches for sale for 60 Rand, which is roughly $3.80 (\u00a33).<\/p>\n<p>The scam is made more convincing by the scammers posing as large online retailer Takealot, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Takealot\/posts\/4664817806907583?_rdc=1&amp;_rdr\">who issued a checklist in December<\/a> to ensure that people don&#8217;t fall for the con:<\/p>\n<p>\u26d4\ufe0f We do not request payment to enter into a competition<br \/>\u26d4\ufe0f We do not charge for the delivery of prizes<br \/>\u26d4\ufe0f You will never have to pay to unlock deals<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgMTQzNCI+PC9zdmc+\" width=\"900\" height=\"1434\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/03bfbba6380f2\/aaxn50w.900x.jpg\" alt=\"AAXN50W\"><figcaption class=\"caption\">One of the scam posts on Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The massively-discounted Switch was posted on the Electronic Products group, saying that the shop was &#8220;liquidating [their] inventory in the USA&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The scam reportedly works by signing users up for multiple small payments after taking their card details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you saw a Nintendo Switch selling for just $4, you might assume that Doug Bowser had lost his mind, before buying every single one available \u2014 but perhaps unsurprisingly, in the case of unlucky South Africans seeing the deal on Facebook, it&#8217;s naught but a scam. According to a report by Cape Town Etc., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}