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According to eBay policy, if a buyer opens an Item Not as Discussed (INAD) ticket, then you must accept the return and refund the money. The buyer keeps the items and sends an empty box back ...
A package redirection scam is a form of e-commerce fraud, where a malicious actor manipulates a shipping label, to trick the mail carrier into delivering the package to the wrong address. This is usually done through product returns to make the merchant believe that they mishandled the return package, and thus provide a refund without the item ...
In the parcel mule scam, scammers often attract their victims under the guise of a bogus work-from-home opportunity, [1] although other angles, such as a romance scam may be used to lure victims. [1] Victims begin to receive packages, often with high value contents (such as consumer electronics or designer clothes and shoes) at the address they ...
A seller pays someone a small amount to place a fake order, or just uses another person's information to place an order themselves. [5] Because a shipment usually has to take place for an order to be considered valid by the e-commerce site, the seller will frequently ship an empty box or some cheap item.
Nina Kollars of the Naval War College explains an Internet fraud scheme that she stumbled upon while shopping on eBay.. Internet fraud is a type of cybercrime fraud or deception which makes use of the Internet and could involve hiding of information or providing incorrect information for the purpose of tricking victims out of money, property, and inheritance.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit accusing eBay of violating environmental laws by allowing the sale of hundreds of thousands of harmful products ...
Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud used in retail sales but also employed in other contexts. First, the merchant "baits" the customer by advertising a product or service at a low price; then when the customer goes to purchase the item, they discover that it is unavailable, and the merchant pressures them instead to purchase a similar but more expensive product ("switching").
The bogus escrow scam is a straightforward confidence trick in which a scammer operates a bogus escrow service. Escrow services are intended to ensure security by acting as a middleman in transactions where the two parties do not trust each other. Rather than sending money or goods directly to the other party (which is insecure, as one or the ...