New online rip-offs on Amazon and Ebay: How the fraudsters operate. New online fraud scam used by fraudsters is particularly perfidious - and is often noticed late.
Fraudsters have developed a new variant of the so-called triangle fraud. The criminals offer goods at particularly low prices via cracked seller accounts or specially created fake online shops. When users then order from the fraudster, the trap closes. Because now the scammers own the customers’ data, they use this data to order the new goods from a reputable dealer.