[time-nuts] Chinese credit card fraud

[David Kirkby]

On 16 March 2012 16:22, Rix Seacord <eseacord at verizon.net> wrote:
> Luckily, I use PayPal for most of my online purchases.

>From the experience of a friend, who bought something eBay that needed
refunding by Paypal, it was a long complex process

1) Buy bandbag from eBay she believed was a fake.
2) Ebay insist the bag is inspected by an expert - eBay tell her the
expert to use
3) She pays the expert, who agrees its a fake.
4) She needs to *FAX* the documents from the expert to Paypal. by a
certain (quite short) date. Few people use FAX machines now, so she
had to pay a shop to FAX it. It seems Paypal make it hard, by
requesting a FAX rather than accepting a scanned document, or asking
the expert to send it directly.

She finally got her money back, but never recovered the cost of paying
the expert, or of the FAX charges.


Dave