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As many opportunities for buyers and sellers that eBay provides, it also provides as many avenues for tricks, traps and swindling. ... Perhaps the largest scam on eBay is the scam of shipping a ...
Package redirection scam. 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 ...
The parcel mule scam, also known as the reshipping scam, involves scammers and unsuspecting victims handling goods [1] to other countries. In some ways it is similar to the money mule scam. Scammers use fake advertising [2] to hire mules. Items are bought with stolen cards, [2] and since the goods are typically re-sold once shipped, this scam ...
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Salt and Pepper Shakers. Liudmila Chernetska. Small knickknacks, like salt and pepper shakers, can be cute, but thrifting experts recommend against buying them at garage sales. "Vintage salt and ...
Advance-fee scam
Brushing (e-commerce) In e-commerce, brushing, also called "review brushing", [1] is a deceitful technique sometimes used in e-commerce to boost a seller's ratings by creating fake orders, [2][3][4][5] which are either shipped to an accomplice or to an unsuspecting member of the public. Most e-commerce sites rate sellers by multiple criteria ...