| Though any business is susceptible to various scams | | | | and routing numbers so that they can directly |
| and cons, as an online eBay business proprietor you | | | | transfer the money to you and avoid PayPal or other |
| need to be especially careful since you attract more | | | | e-billing services. These sites are always "phishing" |
| technologically affluent, intelligent, and scrupulous | | | | schemes that will take all of your banking information |
| scam perpetrators from around the world, something | | | | and clean out your accounts, and in extreme cases |
| that most brick and mortar businesses do not have | | | | even sell your personal information to identity thieves. |
| to worry about. Most of these scams involve shady | | | | Never use sites that you are not familiar with to |
| methods of payment, offers of "great deals" on | | | | process payments, and it is usually best to stick with |
| product supply, information phishing and fraudulent | | | | PayPal and other established e-billing services. |
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| look out for, because an ounce of prevention is | | | | One of the oldest scams, but a scam that is still |
| worth a pound of cure. | | | | prevalent today, is for customers to buy a product, |
| INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS PROMISING TO | | | | let the payment process, receive the item that they |
| OVERPAY | | | | got from you but attempt to return an identical (and |
| Beware of potential customer that send you | | | | usually damaged or defective) item in its place, |
| indecipherable messages that indicate they want to | | | | requesting that their money be refunded. Usually this |
| over pay you for an item, because they came | | | | scam is defeated either through a all sales final return |
| across a check or something, and that all they ask is | | | | policy or through you keeping copious track of the |
| you send them the product and part of the | | | | serial numbers of your sold products. |
| difference of the money. Usually this is a tip off that | | | | REQUESTING DELIVERY TO AN ADDRESS |
| the check is a fake, and if you comply you is likely | | | | UNASSOCIATED WITH CUSTOMER |
| out the product and ALL of the money, while the | | | | Another tip off that a con artist may be trying to pull |
| scammer gets the product and a chunk of real, | | | | something on you is by purchasing your product, but |
| American cash for their trouble. Beware, especially, | | | | requesting that the product be delivered to an |
| for customers pulling anything suspicious from African | | | | address that is not associated with the customer's |
| countries. For whatever reason, African nations have | | | | data., including deliveries to other U.S. states or |
| become a hot bed for international online scams | | | | overseas. Often this is the result of identity theft. |
| targeting businesses and people all over the world. | | | | Report any of these suspicious activities to the FBI |
| CUSTOMERS REDIRECTING YOU IN EMAIL TO A | | | | or to your country's law enforcement agency that |
| SITE FOR THEIR BANK | | | | handles international commerce. |
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