The Case of The Gold Nugget and An International Seller Who Almost Got Conned By Fraud on Ebay | Kay And Associates
On our website blog, we recently addressed the issue of fraudulent activity on eBay and how sellers can get taken advantage of and conned on the immensely popular auction site. Below is a preview of the latest blog I wrote addressing these concerns.
Fraud takes on many shapes and forms, appearing as something legitimate when it is quite the opposite. And as people have become painfully aware of, fraud is no stranger to eBay. At the moment eBay has about 1.5 billion listings, which allows for a very large pool of opportunity when it comes to fraud and online financial predators.
At Kay and Associates we get a lot of clients who have been defrauded in online transactions, and a large number of those clients are encountering these issues on eBay. The thing is, unless you are very savvy about online banking and buying/selling/auction behaviors, it is quite easy to be the victim of fraud.
I remember one specific client who almost lost a very large gold nugget to a professional scammer on eBay.
I was contacted by a concerned man who was living in Australia and was selling some things on eBay.
He did not have a business account with PayPal and was unfamiliar the eBay landscape. This gentleman became my client after discussing his case over the phone. He did not have much experience as an online seller (especially in auctions) and was in Australia but needed the package he sent intercepted before the criminals picked it up from the shipment center in the United States.
How the Crime Happened
Our client had put his gold nugget for sale on eBay. It sold to a party in California. At a point after he had shipped the package, he realized the money was not transferred to his account. The details in this are convoluted, but the point is our client did not receive the money in his account for the chunk of solid gold.
We contacted the shipping warehouse (it wasn’t a well-known shipping center like UPS or FedEx), which we were able to find by using the tracking information. Luckily, he took photos of everything such as the transaction from eBay, the tracking number from the shipping company he used, and photos from PayPal showing the transactions.
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For the rest of the blog, visit our website blog for this story at https://kayandassociates.com/ebay-fraud-golden-nugget-investigation/
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Originally published at https://kayandassociates.com on February 15, 2021.
