Please see below, for your awareness.

Small businesses beware! We are seeing fake Craft Fair adverts popping up all over the local Facebook community groups.

The posts advertise a fictional craft fayre, fair or similar event which claims to be held at a local hall. The organiser calls out for stall holders to sign up and pay a sum of money to them. In reality there is no event and the fraudster is hoping people will send them a stall holders pitch fee.

Scam craft fair red flags

Venue is not tagged in post

Requests people to send a private message

Requests a "friends and family" payment via PayPal

No event advertised on the venue's page

Please do your homework before booking into any events and make sure the person advertising such events is a genuine organiser. Call the venue first and double check the event, before parting with any money.

If people spot an advert on social media and think it may be a scam, please report it to the admin of the social media page that you see them on so that they can be removed straight away.

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