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3/2/2017 2 Comments tracking down online scammersEvery day, people buy stuff online such as clothes, phones, videogames, TV’s, watches, iPAD’s, etc.. . When we buy stuff online, we expect to have a great experience and have a good satisfaction with our purchases. We expect that our products are well sealed and the product/s are going to be delivered on the day it is promised or sooner. The most visited websites that we use to buy stuff online is Amazon and eBay. Although, Amazon sells products based on their stocks from their warehouse, there are people that use Amazon that sell their stuff. eBay is perfectly known as a website that people and private businesses all over in the United States that sell their stuff. Customers online are attracted by the good quality of the items and their low price compared to retail price. Although, shopping online is recommended by any rather than going to retails stores and pay double for the same item, there is a serious issue that haunts online customers which they fall victims of being scammed by sellers. eBay has a negative reputation from customers that report from being scammed. Scammers like to target new members to take advantage of their unfamiliarity with how eBay or PayPal works. New members can be easily tricked into thinking there is a special Web site they should make payments through, which is in fact a fake site set up by a scammer or they may be tricked more easily into using a fake escrow company. The complaints are generally that eBay fails to respond when a claim is made. Fraud committed by eBay includes selling counterfeit merchandise, shill bidding, shipping different items, knowingly selling stolen goods, selling bootleg merchandise, and PayPal fraud. The most common scams that are happening are electronics. People that are buying smartphones from the internet are likely getting scammed by the buyer, which the buyer gives a customer a similar phone that looks like the actual phone that has similar functions and less GB’s, but the customer is paying full price. Shill bidding is the practice of attempting to increase the final selling price of an auction item by entering a phony bid on one's own product. In society sellers are known for scamming buyers off from their money, but sellers are not the only ones that scam people. Some buyers tend to have the ability to scam sellers as well. There are certain ways that a buyer can scam a targeted seller. On eBay, a potential buyer will contact you and offer to make an immediate payment if you settle the transaction outside of eBay. The transaction will go smoothly, until they contact you afterwards and complain of a defective product, false advertisement or dishonest eBay listing. They will blackmail you into paying them or else they’ll contact eBay and get you banned. The reason that scammers want to buy that product outside of eBay is because if the seller complains to eBay that the buyer scammed him or her, eBay cannot do anything about it because the transaction was not done in their system. Therefore, if you are shopping online or selling an item, you should be aware that there are scammers that are waiting to take advantage of you or anybody else. Thus, everyone has the free will to take the risk and buy something that the price is too good to be true, but keep your eyes peeled and don’t become involved in scamming people.
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Karina pizano
3/8/2017 05:24:21 pm
You know I never really bought from eBay because I felt like it looked too sketchy, however, I don't know what I was thinking, finally one day I decided to try it. Keep in mind I had already bought multiple times from Amazon and I thought they did good with customer service, but there prices and tax had gone way up. So, knowing how amazon worked, I thought eBay would work in a similar manner and give me the same service as amazon, but I would be able to buy products for a cheaper price. Although, I did find a lot of stuff that was 10x cheaper than Amazon, I decided to only buy one. I wanted to test it before I went all crazy shopping. Okay I'll cut to the chase, I didn't get the product I ordered and after multiple attempts to reach customer service so that I could get a refund, I never got it. I emailed the seller, they didn't respond. So I agree with you people should be careful when shopping online.
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Juan Reyes ( Team 8 )
4/5/2017 12:49:32 pm
Fernando,
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Fernando MadrigalHello, my name is Fernando Madrigal and I am a Junior at CSUMB. My major is Computer Science with my concentration in Network and Security. I recently transferred from Hartnell Community College last fall. Archives
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