posted on February 27, 2001 01:16:11 PM new
Crossposted to the boards here, due to the importance!
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I'm not sure how they did it but I was ALMOST taken recently with a new type of PayPal scam. A buyer paid, and I received the standard email from *PayPal* stating that the money had been sent (non credit transaction) and that the buyer WAS VERIFIED. Later, on the actual site, I noticed that the transaction was identical, but there was a DIFFERENT email address (Hotmail vs. a local ISP). The buyer was still listed as verified.
Now, I was careful and didn't ship and contacted PayPal, who confirmed that the buyer was in fact a fraud, but this is still VERY sketchy!
Basically, the hacker compromised the other user's account (how, i have NO idea - they're in different countries), changed emails temporarily, then attempted to trick me.
Be very aware people! This was a **VERIFIED** buyer, yet was false. Make sure that any verified buyer you ship to MUST HAVE a verified address - that's the only thing that this user didn't have.
posted on February 28, 2001 02:36:43 PM new
To all you sellers out there who are getting frustrated and abused by:
· Non-paying bidders
· paypal charge backs
· Bounced checks
· Fraud problems
· Negative feedback for no good reason (retaliation)
I found out the hard way that safe harbor and FBI don’t do a thing about it, and I signed up for a sitesentury.com, a security company that will do REAL investigations. Check out their site, I signed up for their service and I put their log on all my auctions and the bad guys will think twice before they mess with me!!!!!!! It is like having a security guard by my side protecting me!!! Which car do you thing the thieves like to break-in: one with alarm-on or one without??? That is what the log will do for you.
The investigator already got me some of the money I lost on bounced checks and the bank fee too!!!!!!
Do yourself a favor and check out sitesentry.com
