EBay sellers frequently fall into fraud traps and lose 14000 pounds in four months

eBay Failed to block the seller's PayPal email payment The address is changed and the funds are transferred to the fraudster's account. This weekend, another seller became the victim of this fraud.

The daily theft rate may be low, but after several months of accumulation, thousands of pounds were stolen. In this latest case, The seller made a total of 3260 transactions and lost 14000 pounds in four months.

This is not a fraud without victims, and is causing heavy losses to the fraudulent seller. In this recent case, the seller lost all confidence in his business plan.

A month has passed since the fraud was first exposed. In the first report on this case, Richard Crisp Lost £ 54000 But eBay has been slow to take action. This fraud has been happening since 2017, and eBay could have taken action within two years.

Why is there no warning when changing PayPal email payment address? Why is there no warning on the seller's background?

Every seller is asking why eBay hasn't taken any measures to prevent this from happening, and when will they take action?

In this recent incident, eBay returned the fees related to the blackened goods as always, and instructed the seller to recover the funds from PayPal. PayPal said:“ I suggest you work on eBay , fraud occurred on their website（ You can't add PayPal email address to eBay list through PayPal, it must be completed through eBay ）, regardless of the bank that handles the funds. PayPal processes these funds according to the email address that eBay asked us to send. "

EBay also refused to take responsibility, saying“ I suggest you stick to PayPal's responsibility Because they are the ones who control the funds. EBay never handles transactions. "

In this recent case, the seller contacted a buyer, who provided some details of the fraudster's payment. When PayPal is contacted, there will still be funds in the fraud account, but PayPal did not freeze the account, but kept it, the account completed verification, and then PayPal paid the funds to the fraud account!

So far, this problem has not been solved, With continuous fraud, the amount of money cheated may be as high as 100 to 1000 pounds, or even millions of pounds. In addition, consumers send payment information to fraudsters, including their PayPal e-mail address, home address and records of goods purchased. These consumers' personal information has also been obtained one by one by fraudsters, and may even become the next fraud target of criminals

Compiled by/Meiou Yan