Re:I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
by jrochkind1 on Monday September 14, 2020 @02:20PM
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I recently made a purchase that turned out to be fraudulent on paypal, and somehow had no trouble getting my money back relatively promptly. Maybe have taken about a week from when I filed "I never got the product, I think the whole website was fraud".
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Re:I lost €4k in a Facebook scam
by socialist_coder on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @02:43AM
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Be careful, you can still get scammed here. I got hit for a $75 scam product that I bought with my CC, mistakenly thinking I would be protected. The scammers knew what they were doing though. They ship you a super super super cheap version of the product from china, taking advantage of those low low China -> US shipping rates, so that they have certificate of delivery. So you can't say you never got the product. And in that case, both paypal and the CC company require that you send the item back. Shipping the item back to china costs more than the item itself. So there's no point. Scammers won.