A vendor working a trading card convention in San Mateo, California, over the weekend was handed a rare anime card to appraise and realized he had seen it before—in a Facebook post warning collectors about a $30,000 deal gone wrong.
KRON 4 reports that on Monday (Oct. 26), police were called to the San Mateo Event Center after security detained the man who tried to make the sale. Officers reportedly recovered the card and booked him.
The man who was allegedly defrauded had posted about the incident in a collectors’ Facebook group to put other enthusiasts on alert…