The physical markets have turned into online markets lately and people have started adopting the online methods for purchasing a lot of their goods. This does help for most of the time as you need not to go to the provider for the goods or services rather you just place an order and you get the goods or services dropped right away. The online mode is safe and reliable but there are instances where people do fall victims to fraudsters. There are some symptoms as well as there are some immediate actions that you need to take just to make sure that you don’t lose much.

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Symptoms of Ecommerce fraud:

There are some typical cases where the type of fraud is quite the same. There hasn’t been any innovative frauds invented lately and there have been definite fraud cases so far.

These include:

• You buy something online but that is not delivered to the recipient’s address.
• You make a sale, deliver the object but you are never paid for that. The recipient does not pay you online neither on the delivery.
• The purchase you made was something different than what you got delivered in the package.
• You are being told that you won a lottery prize worth a million and for that you need to pay a few dollars as the processing fee. You pay the fee and you never get the million dollars.
• The business opportunity that you took part in was not as attractive and profitable as you expected before making the final deal.
• You help someone who seeks help from you in terms of cash and promises you to come up with a huge sum once his/her problems are sorted out but does not response after you send him money for help.
• You purchase software but that does not have a license or is pirated.
• You make an investment online that is marketed to you through email or website but do not get any response after the initial upfront payment.

Such events might have occurred in the past, of they might occur somewhere in the future until or unless you make the necessary actions once making a deal in the online world.

Actions available to you:

The moment you realize that you are dealing with something dangerous or scam, stop paying more money rather start thinking about ways in which you can recover your money back. Check the third party if that is available for a dispute resolution, this does not imply for most of the time as fraudsters run away the moment they are successful. In case you have purchased the stuff from an auction, see if the auction provider provides any dispute management option. Credit card payments can be requested for investigations. You can even check if you qualify for the fraud protection programs in case you paid through any online payment service such as PayPal. The best way against such a trap is to have complete record of every communication done. Take prints of the web pages, emails, record phone calls just so that you have the necessary information when required.

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