What are common Facebook Marketplace motorcycle scams?

Marketplace is where most private bike sales happen now, and the scammers know it. These are the plays sellers and buyers see over and over:

• Fake payment screenshots. The "buyer" shows a Zelle, Venmo, or Cash App confirmation that's just an edited image. Money is real only when it appears in your account and clears.
• Overpayment refunds. They "accidentally" send too much (with a fake check or reversible payment) and ask you to refund the difference in real money.
• VIN-report phishing. A buyer insists you buy a vehicle history report from a specific site they link — the site is theirs, and it exists to harvest your card details.
• Fake escrow and shipping. A remote buyer wants to pay through an "escrow service" and send a shipper. The escrow site is fake.
• The recon visit. Not a scam for money — a "buyer" comes to look, asks where you keep it, and the bike disappears weeks later.

Protect yourself the boring way: meet at a police-station safe exchange lot in daylight, bring a friend, accept only cleared funds, and never let your home address or garage appear in listings or conversations. And keep a hidden tracker on the bike while it's listed — the weeks a bike is for sale are exactly when the wrong people know it exists.

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