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12 Mar

One more falls to an Internet Auction Scam!

Sometime back I wrote about how people selling stuff at online auction sites should be wary of being cheated by fraudulent buyers. About how they might be duped through payments made in the form of fraud checks or money orders.
As highlighted by a Channel 6 news story, online buyers are more at peril of getting [...]

12 Feb

Buying through Online Auctions? Be aware of the frauds you are exposed to!

According to the FBI, online-auction-frauds constitute roughly 50% of the scams going on in a year. Not surprising, if one considers that one-third of all online trading happens in this manner. Such transactions are more vulnerable to scams because everything is done online here - this shrinks down considerably the number of ways you can [...]

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