On local online platforms like DBA, Facebook Marketplace, and Guloggratis, you typically find used cars, cute kittens, old rocking chairs, and bicycles for sale.
But on the local online marketplace bornholmermarket.dk, users have recently come across a series of ads that, at first glance, have no connection to Bornholm at all.
Among the over 8,000 ads on the sales platform, one could find spells claiming to bring back your ex-girlfriend or boyfriend—or even kill another person. If you were in a vengeful mood and needed to get back at your nemesis, there was also a spell and ad for that.
If black magic wasn't what you were after, you could also participate in an Indian lottery promising big prizes.
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Titles of old scam ads on bornholmermarket
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- Top 10 Love Spells That Work with Proven Results in 24-72 Hours
- Top 5 Most Powerful Death Spells with Immediate Impact & No Karma
- Lucky lottery rituals around the world-selling
- SSD AUTOMATIC SOLUTION and ACTIVATION POWDER!
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Many crazy ads appear
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Frank Kierkegaard Hansen, administrator of Bornholmermarket, says that especially the ads for black magic took the platform by surprise, and they have now removed them. Just to be safe.
"There are many crazy ads from time to time. And more people are trying to scam others and get money out of them, but this thing with black magic, we haven't experienced that before," he states.
However, it's not just death and love spells that have recently made their entrance.
You can also trade for some unclear "solutions" that—depending on your belief and the seller's intent—can remove stains from your old banknotes—or perhaps rather carry out a more criminal form of money laundering, possibly linked to fraud, money laundering, or drugs, though this cannot be determined from the posts alone.
Screenshot from bornholmermarket.dk claiming to clean your 'banknotes'—after that, the ad becomes very incomprehensible. (Photo: © Screenshot from Bornholmermarket.dk, August 3, 2026.)
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New search agents to be implemented
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Frank Kierkegaard Hansen removes the ads if he suspects fraud, but he says he will now start expanding searches for other suspicious words. Because as administrators delete one type of scam ad, others pop up.
"Before, it was something like very cute puppies with huge eyes that appeared a lot. And loan offers and that kind of thing, which we got many of. But then they probably got tired of us deleting it all, and now it's something else," says Frank Kierkegaard Hansen.
But no more black magic on Bornholmermarket, if it's up to you?
"Well, it can take a few hours before we discover the ads. But if you want to get hold of someone who can cast a curse on your ex, you still have to be pretty fast."
Platforms like Facebook Marketplace, DBA, and bornholmermarket.dk have no responsibility to ensure you are not scammed. However, they are obligated to act on reports of fraud.
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Doing more than required
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DR has been in contact with the Danish Consumer Council 'Tænk,' which applauds that bornholmermarket.dk goes a step further by itself trying to regulate potential scam ads.
The Consumer Council writes, among other things, that bornholmermarket.dk does what it should by removing content when they are made aware that it may be illegal.
"We view positively that bornholmermarket also updates the enforcement of their advertising policy by creating a search agent that can remove similar content in the future," writes the Danish Consumer Council about ads for black magic and Indian lotteries on the local trading platform.
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