Tweet of the Week #64: Twitter Warns of New Scam On Mercari blog.gaijinpot.com

But even if you take all the care in the world, a split second is still enough to fall into a scam artist’s net.
This is a scam to steal money through Mercari, using buyer’s information and ordering products through postage-paid mail order.
This type of scam is really easy to fall into and I’m glad I realized what was happening halfway through.
They contact the seller and make their purchase thus giving out precious information such as name, address and phone number.
The same goes with the expression 気がつく but in case of a verb, you’ll add こと before に.Verb casual form + ことに気がつくスマホを 落 （ お ） としたことに気がつきませんでした。= I didn’t realize I dropped my phone.