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• Local transactions should be arranged in a busy public place if possible. Take a friend or family member with you. If a buyer/seller is coming to your home or workplace, arrange to have someone with you and ask the buyer/seller to produce ID. Allow the buyer to inspect the item.
• Never send money to anyone you don’t know by bank transfer.
• Always use common sense.
• And if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!

 
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