If you don't want to be cheated out of your money online, read on now. Fraudsters are on the move on Ebay. Those who know their tricks protect themselves from being ripped off.
- Post an offer, sell it immediately or auction the object for sale: Many use the online marketplace Ebay to sell furniture, clothing, pet supplies and many other everyday items that are no longer required.
- But there are not only honest sellers: There is also the risk of falling victim to dubious machinations.
- Online crooks use various tricks to drive prospective customers out of their money *. Find out here which signs should make you skeptical.
Do you know anyone who got ripped off doing an online business? Or have you already experienced this first hand? So that that never happens again, it is advisable to read up on the tricks of the online swindlers. You are guaranteed never to fall victim to these three nasty scams this way:
- Device replaced
According to the Techbook portal, the exchange trick is mostly used for electronic devices that are expensive to purchase. The fraudster buys a smartphone (promotional link), television or tablet on Ebay and pays for it. However, they send it back relatively soon - with the information that it is defective. However, it is not the purchased product that will be returned, but an identical and defective device. As a rule, the seller cannot prove that it is a different product and has to refund the amount paid. Tip: Anyone who sells devices on Ebay should always protect themselves - for example by recording the device number.
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- No payment through Ebay
If the seller does not want to process the payment through Ebay, you should be puzzled. You shouldn't fall for excuses that there were problems with the last purchase and that the amount should therefore be transferred to a private account. Otherwise the following scenario blooms for you: The money will be transferred by you - after the fraudster has pointed out that the goods will be sent immediately after receipt of payment - but they never arrive. Since the sale was not processed via Ebay, the buyer has no control here: the "seller" gets through with his scam.
- Play two Ebay users against each other
A perfidious and cunning scam: the online fraudster publishes an advertisement in which he offers a device that another Ebay user is also selling - for the same price. Now he lies in wait for an Ebay user who is interested in the fake ad to report. If the purchase is an agreed item, the fraudster gives the buyer the bank details of the seller whose offer he has imitated. He notices the receipt of payment and sends the product to the address given by the fraudster. The spoiled is therefore the buyer who has paid but does not receive any goods, as techbook.de writes. This is namely in the fraudster's mailbox. (jg) * Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editorial network .
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