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Cases of fraud 2008-04-21 23:55:52 Case 1 -Group of youngster were caught for cheating over hundred of buyer from the internet by posting handphone (premium item) on the internet / cybercafe. Collect money and dissappear. They have many to con over 1 million RM.Case 2-Experience bidder were con after convinced by new seller who mentioned in auction that he had a physical store in a small town in other state, and seller's shop address are also posted in the auction detail. The seller have no problem to meet face to face.This experience bidder at the end, bank in the money, and seller dissappear.If you're cheated just learn from the mistakesRemember to take more precautions with expensive itemsDon't lose sleep over a couple of hundred ringgitFeeling angry only poisons our bodies and makes our lives miserableLife must go on! Read more:fraud
Buying from Ebay without credit card 2008-04-21 22:39:02 If you are buying from seller in ebay without credit
card. here are some checklist to take note:1. Check reliable seller, Power Seller etc. 2. Check item & shipping condition if available worldwide 3. Email seller to - Ask for confirmation (some willing to send even they state as not) - Shipping price (USD convert to RM) - Exchange shipping / payment address etc 4. Pay via TT, Wiretransfer or Postal Order. U might also consider western union which is faster for overseas deal. All process might take a few days because of time different. Must be patient due to distance and types of courier you choose, and don't forget some item might have custom duties. Negotiate with the seller if he/she can ship item as promotional item, if you dealing with gadget item like gadget or comput Read more:Buying
Beware of fake items online 2008-04-21 11:50:55 It's very hard to differentiate counterfeit products or imitation sometimes. Especially when we are dealing online
because we might not able to inspect the items. Once we received the item, it might be too late to realize it. So it's very important to read the item description clearly. If there is any doubt, you can always email or contact the seller.Items such as fake, look alike, replica, AAA, fraud etc. can be found in the market easily. As a matter of fact, these fake products are sold in the black market for cheaper price than posted online sometimes. Educating online buyers can create awareness of this matter.This scenario will tarnish local online shopping website and auction/selling site reputation. In Malaysia, it is not easy to stop and curb all these fake, look alike, replica, A Read more:Beware
Pay Pal can withdraw from local bank credit card 2008-04-21 11:17:17 There had been increase numbers of paypal account user in Malaysia. The good news is that now paypal can transfer to your local bank credit
card account. In this case you can withdraw
money using ur credit card at atm machine or offset your credit balance of your credit card.If you login to your Paypal account, click withdraw and you will see an option to withdraw your paypal fund to your credit card!USD5 fee per withdrawal, and the limit is USD500 a dayIf you got credit card balance, amount transferred from PayPal will be knock-off with that credit balance. If the credit card balance is zero or less than the amount transferred from PayPal, you are not advise to withdraw at the ATM. It will be considered as cash advance withdrawal and subject to charges eventhough the credit card amount i
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Buying Via Paypal from Malaysia in ebay 2008-04-19 03:17:03 Sometimes we wanted to buy some item from overseas seller in ebay. We might ask how much does ebay insure for our transaction. If you read ebay policy, ebay has US200 refund for fraud. To be safe then never buy anything more than what they cover. If you are using local bank, then you can use TT to overseas account. Telegrahic transfer is not cover in eby auction fraud terms.Unless they trust you and you already have the item in hand. But of course if the seller is honest and trustworthy then should not be any problem.Cheers! Read more:Buying
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What to take precaution when dealing online 2008-04-17 23:59:57 When we are having an online
transaction, it is very important that we take few precaution. Over the years I had heard many cases where people get cheated, fraud cases and personal information leaked out.Here are some checklist to consider:Always make sure your computer do not stored any important data. If u want to store then use some encryption software. This is especially if your computer is shared or easily accessible to others.When your using others computer or at the cyber cafe, always clear your cache from the internet browser after usage. If can make the security option at the login page.Never give away your credit card number or personal identity number to unknown site or party. They can use this info to hack into your credit card account. This include when your chatting online as
What's hot in lelong website? 2008-04-02 03:51:02 If your thinking what is hot selling item in lelong website
.. well it is definitely electrical and gadgets such as handphones, ipods, computers and PDAs. Most of the item which people browse through are gadgets compared to clothings and cds. Probaly Malaysian prefer to buy clothes at the retail outlets and shop, while pirated cds/dvds are easily available.
Reporting Online Fraud Cases to cyber crime 2008-03-30 09:09:09 For those who is cheated or want to report any online case, it would be more effective to go straight to the Cyber Crime Division in Bukit Aman ,Kuala Lumpur. Just bring along all the proof or documents to support your report. If you need to check bank account info of the seller who cheated you, the report is needed to get Bank Negara approval to retrieve the bank account holder info.My friend just made a report there with few people who got cheated by the same person. Read more:Reporting
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Fraud case in lelong and ebay 2008-03-28 20:20:24 Last week I encounter 2 cases of fraud cases in lelong and ebay. One involving my sister in ebay and the other from a friend in lelong. So the question is how safe is it to do online transaction? Are the rating in the profile of the seller enough to determine the seller credibility?My sister make a deal with a seller in Melaka where the seller have good ratings in ebay since 2007. Looks promising and a good deal. Call up the buyer asking about the handphone and agree to bank in the money to the seller. After bank in the money seller said will send the item soon. After waiting for a week still not received the item. Call back but no reply. Even though my sister lost RM350 only but I heard many buyers was conned by this seller. Even there is a guy from Penang got cheated RM1000 by the seller
Consumer Tribunal Claims 2008-03-28 13:48:01 For some dispute in online transaction you can refer to :://www.eraconsumer.org/program/S...r_Tribunal
.htmOr you can file your complaints to:Consumer
Tribunal ClaimsTribunal Tuntutan Pengguna Malaysia, Tingkat 16, Putra Place, 100, Jalan Putra, 50622 KUALA LUMPUR Tel: 03 - 40492300 / 40424181 Fax: 03 - 40424259Before you make the report make sure you got all the proof and document readyAlternately you can visit the branches throughout MalaysiaAll the branch office address and phone number.PERLIS KEDAH PULAU PINANG PERAKTribunal of Consumer Claims, Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs ,2 Floor, Bangunan Tun HajiAbdul Razak,Jalan Tun Haji Abdul Razak,01000 KANGAR, PERLISTel: 04 - 9761478Fax: 04 - 9762490Tribunal of Consumer Claims, Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs ,
Buying and selling in Lelong.com 2008-03-21 01:32:45 Lelong.com is a local Malaysia "ebay" alike website which offers posting, selling
, buying and bidding of stuffs. To buy or sell things in lelong, you need to register in the website. As a non verify member you are limited to certain access in lelong such as limited watchlist, quickgrab option and etc. One thing about lelong is that to be a verify member u need to fax or email your IC to them in order for them to verify your identity. Thus this allowed the members to have more confidence and secure shopping environment when dealing in lelong. There are 3 ways of application to be verify in lelong verified as buyer, verified as seller and verified as a company. Verification process usually take 2 working days.Benefits of being a verified member isa. You tell our community that you are now hu Read more:Buying
Buying and Selling in Mudah.com.my 2008-03-21 01:31:14 Recently I came into a new website in Malaysia for traders to sell and buy online. Mudah.com.my is an easy website like a classified ads where you can just post your item for sale with info and pics attached. U can search the items posted by categories and by state. My sister bought a hp from that website lately. She came across the ads in the website and call up the seller to meet up and deal..... feel free to browse the website here ....Cheers Read more:Buying
Trading in ebay.com.my 2008-03-18 21:56:16 Ebay is another great place to do online shopping. Ebay.com.my was brought to Malaysia about 2 years back. The system used in ebay is much easier compared to lelong.com as you don't have to be verify to sell and buy online. T0 post item in ebay is free compared to lelong u need some posting fees for pics and etc. I think ebay in Malaysia has not been so successful compared to lelong is due to the mentality and culture of people using the cyber world shopping in Malaysia. Some people are not really looking into doing business in ebay but rather cheating people money. Sometimes because of few bad cases can spoil the people view about shopping in ebay. Some of my friends prefer dealing by meeting up through ebay especially from members who are new. But for ebay members with goo Read more:Trading
Buying and selling online in Malaysia 2008-03-18 11:38:45 In Malaysia
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was not very famous and common about 6-7 years ago. Most of the time we only heard about trading online via ebay. Even Ebay Malaysia was not available at that time.I remember the nearest ebay website for dealing was Singapore. Most of the item posted on ebay was either from US or Europe. And we need to have some online account such as paypal or credit card for transaction. One day, I heard about a online local website like ebay was lelong.com. One of my friend bought a bracelet from lelong and told me about it. The first impression that I have was is it safe and can it be done? Well today we can see the online trading/transaction had grown so much in Malaysia with lelong.com having millions of hit per day and ebay.com also available now. I myself j Read more:Buying
Thing to note to prevent fraud 2008-04-22 00:01:30 It is important not to simply bank in your money to anyone's bank account, especially the seller name and the bank account has different name. Make sure the name in account,and their bank account name is the same. In case you need, please ask for the seller's IC(updated : It's is now easier to create bank account with fake / stolen IC, so please beware if you are given their IC / Bank Account which is similar name and they are new.)If any member request you to bank in money to bank account other then their own name. Report to the admin or webmaster, this are assume to have high fraud
risk ( They will normally request you to bank into their boy friends, girl friend or associate name)Advisable not to trade with a member whose phone is not working or refuse to disclose at least a home or offi Read more:Thing
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Online Safety Part 2 2008-04-24 02:38:08 Form of paymentPaypalLet say we are buying from someone online. Then the seller offers PayPal, first thing to do is to go to the PayPal site and try to send the seller a mock payment to see if the email address matches the one in the end of auction notice. If their past auctions show a PayPal logo, but PayPal does not show the email address you have as being a current PayPal account then maybe the account been used by someone else or hijacked. Of course unless the seller is using 2 different email account.Credit Card Credit card is one of the safest way to make payment for the buyer. But of course there will be certain charge back protection for the transaction. U can check with your credit card bank issuer as they sometimes charge for insurance if in cases of fraud we can get back our mon Read more:Safety
Online Safety Part 1 2008-04-24 01:05:17 As I meantioned earlier, when we are buying from someone online, it is highly recommended to check the seller's feedback. Please take note not just the percentages or numbers but the actual comments because certain info may be manipulated. See if they have been habitually selling what you are interested in buying. For example if they have been selling clothes and are suddenly selling Hifi at great prices, we should be caution. If they have never sold a single item before and first thing they are selling is a high priced item, proceed, but with caution. Better be safe then sorry.Retrieved the sellers contact information and call them. Get their full name address and phone number, no matter what method that you are using to pay them. If they have a company get the company info as well. Doubl Read more:Safety
Online Shopping (Virus) 2008-04-26 07:29:20 Sometimes when we are doing online shopping or transaction, we would like to avoid viruses.If we receievd an en email containing an unsolicited commercial message, you should not open any attached file whose name ends in ".exe." Clicking on such files could activate a computer virus that might affect the operation of your computer and/or damage the information stored on your computer.You can also protect yourself against viruses carried by e-mail or by computer files that you’ve received on a floppy disk, by purchasing and installing on your computer or network a virus-protection program. A good antivirus could fix this problem Read more:Shopping
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Online Shopping (Password) 2008-04-26 07:21:35 It is important to use different password for your online transaction and email account or network password. Some website require you to change your online password after 3 months to ensure the security of your account.When we are choosing our password, it is not recommended to use our address, birth date, phone number, or recognizable words. Choose a string of at least five letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.If you are recording your password down pls do not write down any password near your computer where someone could see it. If you do record it somewhere, reverse the order of the characters or transpose some letters or numbers. In that hat way, someone finding it won’t have discovered your true password. Read more:Shopping
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Online Shopping (Phone In) 2008-04-26 07:13:25 Another way of making payment online is using the phone. That is of course if you are willing to give out your personal credit card info away online. Most web merchants/seller allow you to order online and give your credit card information over the phone to make the payment.If you’re planning to use phone in option, do remember to jot down the phone number, seller company name, the date and time of your call, and the name of the person who recorded your credit card number.It is never advise to give out your password and credit card number using ordinary email. If your email been hacked then, your personal info will fall into the hand of other especially identity theft. Read more:Shopping
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Online Shopping (Internet connection security) 2008-04-26 07:04:16 One of the important things to take not when your doing online shopping is our internet connection
seciruty. How do we know that our internet connection are secure?Most website use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to encrypt the perssonal and credit card information that we send over the Internet
. You can see that your address bar starts with https: instead of usual http:. Sometimes the website will also inform the users that they are using SSL security
.There are also other security technology, such as Secure Electronic Transaction, or SET, technology which use different principles. SET or SSL technology are designed to make your connection secure. The other ways to tell whether a website uses security software is that you will see a padlock icon at the bottom right of your browse (In Read more:Shopping
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