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Interesting story - I wonder how they managed to manipulate the Paypal account of the victim. Clearly Paypal has a problem there. But the other issue is that o
by javajosh 3y ago
Interesting story - I wonder how they managed to manipulate the Paypal account of the victim. Clearly Paypal has a problem there.
But the other issue is that of general lawlessness and the fact that this scammer will get away with the attempted scamming, and probably do it to other people, too. For every person like the OP who manage, somehow, to protect themselves, there are 1000 others who don't. And there is the issue that the scammer broke the law, in their state and in the victims state, and probably federally, and yet there will be no action from law-enforcement. In such an environment, why not go into this kind of business? What's the downside? It seems to me that there isn't any downside. Sort of like committing perjury.
In general, how bad does it have to get before the law gets enforced?
- axus 3y agoThe author had a theory: "I’m still not sure how the scammer was able to open and close cases on my behalf. My theory is that they were able to spoof my phone number and call PayPal support and do it over the phone. (They asked early on for my phone number “for the tracking information,” which in retrospect doesn’t make a lot of sense.)"
- semolino 3y agoIn my experience, you can log in to Paypal/eBay by supplying your email address, then choosing "another way to sign in" (other than PW), at which point you're prompted to enter a single use code sent thru SMS. So: phone spoofing sounds likely, and it's my guess the scammers were operating without even having to use Paypal support to close the tickets.
- dexzod 3y agoWell if any one can log into paypal and open and close cases, they might as well just use the paypal account to pay themselves directly or buy stuff. I don't understand why the seller had to use FB to scam people when they could manipulate the paypal account directly
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