
Jack Velandra needs a motorized scooter due to health issues. He placed an order online, but he never got the scooter. Instead, he got junk and lost money to a scam.
TOLEDO, Ohio — Scams on social media are very much alive and making the rounds.
A south Toledo man with health issues was trying to buy a motorized scooter, which is an item he needs on a daily basis. The scooter never came.
Now he’s left without a way to get around and has no way of getting his money back.
“Tried to order a scooter and I sent the order in, and I ended up getting a small remote and I never got the scooter,” Jack Velandra said.
Velandra says he suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and needs that scooter to get around.
But instead, he’s lost more than $300 and is a victim of a Facebook scam.
“I was really upset because I got scammed before on a couple of other items that I ordered that wasn’t what I ordered,” Velandra said.
The Federal Trade Commission says consumers lost some $770 million to fraud on social media just last year.