You list an old couch on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace. Within minutes, you get a text. The buyer is eager, polite, and ready to pay cash. There is just one catch: they want to“verify” that you ...

Journalist Kelly Rissman of New York City had advertised some furniture online with not so much as a nibble when “Jaree” sent a message via the OfferUp resale app asking if it was still available.