STOP SCAM SELLERS
For the past few years in Singapore, Scams are on the rise. Scammers have become more brazen and scheming.
Online Shopping is one of such activity that Scammers have set their eyes on and also created many schemes to scam people of their hard earned money.
Scammers can be individuals or even as big as organisations. The lure of quick fast and enormous amount of Cash Rewards have resulted in waves of scams prevalent in Singapore.
Online Shopping Scams
Scam Sellers
Some online platforms allow individuals to list as online shops or sellers to promote the sale of their products, even without any form of validations. As such, ANYONE, including YOU, can just go Online to sell things.
This enormous lack of validation creates a loophole that allows scammers to exploit.
Characteristics of such scams are :
- Items Prices are usually much much much cheaper than the Market Selling Price
- Payments are usually direct payment to seller via bank transfer
- Unwilling to do meet ups
- Some may have GREAT REVIEWS (but easily faked) to showcase the sellers are authentic
- Fake sense of urgency such as LAST PIECE or Only X quantity Left
Outcome of such scams are usually within months when group of buyers started making reports on such sellers when their orders are not fulfilled.
However, due to ease of entry, such scammers may just close down account and run the scam again using another bogus account.
Some of the scammers do get caught, while many others escape with the clever use of bogus accounts and identities.
How to Prevent being scammed by such Sellers?
ALWAYS ONLY shop with reputable shopping platforms such as Shopee, Qoo10 and Amazon.
WHY?
These online platforms do take records of sellers information. In any case of scams, the sellers can be traced. However, some accounts can still be bogus accounts or misused of identities.
On top of that, such platforms serves as a Middleman Party. Any forms of payment is held by the platform FIRST and not direct to sellers. This safeguards both the Buyers and Sellers. In any case of fraud, these platforms can ensure that the money is returned to the rightful owners.
Some scammers will claim that direct payment to them will allow them to save on admin charges and thus selling the items at a much lower prices.
DO NOT BELIEVE in that statement. It is better to pay slightly more than having a chance to lose all of your money.
How to STOP such SCAM SELLERS
The solution is pretty SIMPLE.
DO NOT BUY from Sellers with the above mentioned characteristics.
Always Buy Only from trusted Online Shopping Platforms such as Shopee, Qoo10 and Amazon.
DO NOT Fall for the LOW PRICE TRICK.
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