The $900 Fake Magic Card: How a Facebook Marketplace Scam Exposed a Vulnerability Every Collector Faces

Bill Fridge, a Magic: The Gathering content creator and streamer, went live recently to walk his audience through one of the more painful collector stories in the MTG community — a near-perfect counterfeit card purchased for $900 from Facebook Marketplace that hit every failure point in the peer-to-peer collectibles market at once.