Three people have been attacked in Melbourne’s east, and a car windshield smashed, after a vigilante scheme to trap an online scammer backfired.
It started on Monday when a 27-year-old man purchased an iPhone from a young seller through Facebook Marketplace for $1750 before discovering the device was fake.
Vision of the incident shows a young man jumping onto the hood of the buyer's car and stomping on the windshield. Picture: 7 News The seller managed to contact three other friends who arrived and helped the scammer our of the car but not before things turned ugly.
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