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)- Most common method they'll bid with a high price and claimed that they'll send the money by Money Gram, Western Union. Becareful and do not jump into any arguement to them because they might leave negative feedback to you while you are not deserve it. Just have to ignore them and DO NOT send any emails to them. Direct report their Ebay user ID to Ebay and let Ebay ban their ID.
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Sometimes they'll promised you sending money by wire transfer. First of all they'll write an email to you via some bank account and told you that when you reply the email with the receipt by DHL, UPS the bank will release the payment. Do not believe them! Bank will never have this service! Just simply not get angry and report the case to Ebay. Quite a lot of Ebay sellers will reply with insulting emails before reporting those scammers to Ebay. That will only make yourself receive unwanted negative feedback.
- The worse-ever and hard-to-prevent fraud case is when the Ebay user using a stolen credit card to purchase your item and pay through Paypal. You probably will found out the fraud case 2~3 months later while paypal send you an email and told you that you have been involved in the case of "credit card chargedbacks". Sellers have to aware that a credit card owner might have the right to file a "credit card chargebacks" within 6 months after the sales complete. Sellers have to protect themselve especially when the transaction amount is huge. Most of the time when this type of fraud cases involved Paypal might not be able to help you and they'll tell you it is out of their control. If you want to prevent above fraud case, precautions below might be useful for you!
- If the user rating is low. You should request the payment NOT funded via credit card. That means payment funded by account balance or bank is perfectly ok! You may have a personal account just to recieved this type of funding. You'll never have had credit card chargebacks.
- Having confirm address and verified paypal account. That means it can't be a stolen credit card
- Ebay and Paypal account with history more than half year history. That is because if the hoaxer using false credit card to cheat most probably the account or the credit card will be banned within half a year.
- Ofcos if the buyer have had excellent records (100 and above) then he/she shouldn't be a hoax. That is because credit card company will check with the owner if too many abnormal transactions involved. If he still holding such an excellent record most probably will not have a big issue to deal with him.
Guide created: 13/09/06 (updated 17/07/08)
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