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. FB mArketplace that her cousin had lost her husband and wanted to gift his prized possession—a Yamaha baby grand piano —to someone who would carry on the tradition i. their household of filling the house with music . i responded to  by FB messenger. she gave me her cousins phone number  and told me to text her because she would not pick up if she didn’t recognize the caller . so i tried calling and it said the mailbox was full. which seemed odd. so i texted. and responded and told me she would give me the piano . she said she had moved and the piano was with the moving company .she offered to contact the moving company and tell them to deliver it to me . z. she forwarded me the moving company quote ($790 for 4 day option , $880 for 3 day option or $998 for 2 day option., including set up at the delivery site). i tried to contact them by phone . the phone number did not work. i texted the postproexpress email address and website . . they ignored my request to talk by phone . so over text they told me  had told them to re-route the piano to me. they asked me which delivery option i would like and said they would generate an invoice and as soon as i paid they would ship . they showed a photo of the piano in pieces wrapped in brown paper. this seemed odd to have torn the piano down into pieces this way. i asked to be able to add a violin omits case to the shipment . they said they could pick it up and asked for an address. i told the the seller would drop it off to  that question. i then thought this must be a scam and i researched it only to find out this is a common FB Marketplace scam for RVs and pianos . happy to have found out before paying them anything.