Chinese scam E-commerce websites
Was trolling some E-commerce sites and came across a strange pattern. Seems many E-commerce sites nowadays have the SAME customer service contact number and/or email address, I mean there are pages of hits when you put there number in a search engine, all belonging to different foreign name websites. I believe I tangled with one last year trying to buy a tabletop smelter (in another Paypal post). So, the scam seems to be this: They advertise a product with a legitimate picture (cant seem to locate that picture gleened from anywhere else online with a basic search) and a pretty darn good price and then you checkout with a credit card or some sort of transfer (UPDATE, they will overcharge that transaction!) , but strangely enough, now there is NO PAYPAL...Hmmm? I saw a $450 PCP air rifle for $98.00, too good to be true? I think so. My story in a nutshell: They sent me the wrong item first, received 3 50 cent covid masks....they admitted the 'mistake' and they resent the item and it was 'lost' by the shipper. Then they offered a 100% refund in the form of a credit to their shady counterfeit shoe website or some other BS, or a 60% refund as they were "out the money too" due to lost shipment. They offer tracking (that even updates) but even the shippers site is bogus with no working hotlinks (yet the working email address in my case could tell me it was stuck in customs or they they indeed shipped the wrong part number) and the website email address they offer for customer service now is not a link but a picture of an email address! I emailed one of the other addresses at that domain from another e-commerce website and the box I was looking for came back as not registered. The sites are usually called some random foreign name ie. About Us : and they all have the same "$40 free shipping" (that gets you to actually buy something for over $40 to make the scam worth their time, as 3 paper targets for $1.50 had a $25 shipping charge.) and even the same 'about us' form letter page with just a different web name. Heck even the support "email address" (just a picture of an email address) is the same!
scam site alert here
https://www.signal-arnaques.com/en/scam/view/314020
Buyer beware. Im actually wary of any website that wont take paypal anymore as they actually stepped in and bailed me out on this one last year. I'm sure a credit card company would do the same but paypal is pretty easy nowadays. If you want to roll the dice and report back, buy a prepaid debit card for $30.00 and buy something cheap off the website and if you get it great, then you may have a chance on your bigger ticket item. Ill put money on you getting scammed.
Was trolling some E-commerce sites and came across a strange pattern. Seems many E-commerce sites nowadays have the SAME customer service contact number and/or email address, I mean there are pages of hits when you put there number in a search engine, all belonging to different foreign name websites. I believe I tangled with one last year trying to buy a tabletop smelter (in another Paypal post). So, the scam seems to be this: They advertise a product with a legitimate picture (cant seem to locate that picture gleened from anywhere else online with a basic search) and a pretty darn good price and then you checkout with a credit card or some sort of transfer (UPDATE, they will overcharge that transaction!) , but strangely enough, now there is NO PAYPAL...Hmmm? I saw a $450 PCP air rifle for $98.00, too good to be true? I think so. My story in a nutshell: They sent me the wrong item first, received 3 50 cent covid masks....they admitted the 'mistake' and they resent the item and it was 'lost' by the shipper. Then they offered a 100% refund in the form of a credit to their shady counterfeit shoe website or some other BS, or a 60% refund as they were "out the money too" due to lost shipment. They offer tracking (that even updates) but even the shippers site is bogus with no working hotlinks (yet the working email address in my case could tell me it was stuck in customs or they they indeed shipped the wrong part number) and the website email address they offer for customer service now is not a link but a picture of an email address! I emailed one of the other addresses at that domain from another e-commerce website and the box I was looking for came back as not registered. The sites are usually called some random foreign name ie. About Us : and they all have the same "$40 free shipping" (that gets you to actually buy something for over $40 to make the scam worth their time, as 3 paper targets for $1.50 had a $25 shipping charge.) and even the same 'about us' form letter page with just a different web name. Heck even the support "email address" (just a picture of an email address) is the same!
scam site alert here
https://www.signal-arnaques.com/en/scam/view/314020
Buyer beware. Im actually wary of any website that wont take paypal anymore as they actually stepped in and bailed me out on this one last year. I'm sure a credit card company would do the same but paypal is pretty easy nowadays. If you want to roll the dice and report back, buy a prepaid debit card for $30.00 and buy something cheap off the website and if you get it great, then you may have a chance on your bigger ticket item. Ill put money on you getting scammed.
