Positive pregnancy tests posted on buy, swap and sell site
Positive pregnancy tests were reportedly up for sale on a Melbourne Facebook page, as a desperate ploy for women to trick their partners into marrying them.
The scam products, at $20 a pop, were posted onto the Port Melbourne Garden City and Surrounding Suburbs Buy, Swap and Sell page, with a picture of a pregnancy test showing two lines to indicate a positive result.
The caption above it read: “Ladies want your man to propose!?
“Positive pregnancy test for $20ea.
“Make that man yours!!!”
A concerned member of the closed suburban group, Sue, raised the alarm and the post was removed a short time later.
She told Fairfax Radio she was disgusted when she saw the post on Saturday night.
"I don't know if it's real," she said.
"This person who actually posted it wrote on there: 'It worked for my girlfriend – she said she lost it'.”
It is unclear whether the offer was legitimate or a hoax, but it attracted a number of negative comments from other group members.
“No one found it funny,” Sue said.
After further investigation, Sue discovered the controversial offer had been posted by someone who appeared to work in the nursing sector.
She said it 'was even more disgusting with the moral obligation’.
No sales were made from the advertisement and it has since been taken down by administrators of the Facebook group.
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