What are the seven major scams in cross-border e-commerce? How to prevent them?

I believe that many friends now prefer cross-border e-commerce platforms, because the current cross-border e-commerce platforms are still in the development stage, and the support for merchants is very large. In recent years, there have been a lot of news about cross-border e-commerce frauds. What are the seven major scams of cross-border e-commerce?

What are the seven major scams of cross-border e-commerce?

1. Malicious package swap:

Amazon's policies generally tend to protect the interests of buyers, and this is taken advantage of by some scammers who use this buyer protection policy to defraud sellers of refunds.

A foreign netizen bought a 1-star non-contract iPhone 6s on Amazon. After receiving the real iPhone 6s sent by the seller, he privately replaced the iPhone 6s with a pile of colored clay, took photos and uploaded them to the review, and complained to Amazon officials, demanding a refund.

2. Paypal account was phished:

PayPal users report that buyers often want to trade with them through PayPal, but their cross-border e-commerce platforms do not support this payment method. However, in order to get more orders, buyers provide this payment method offline. However, it is precisely because of the principle of "diversifying payment methods" that their PayPal accounts have been frozen or even cleared one after another.

3. Selling accounts:

A seller announced in the group that a certain QQ, Alipay account, and the person who authenticated it was a liar. The seller was cheated when buying the account and spent 600 yuan. The cheated seller reminded: Anyone who wants to buy a wish, eBay, or Amazon account, please be careful, this person is a liar, and I was cheated when buying an account. When buying an account, do not pay through WeChat or Alipay first.

4. Selling information:

Everyone wants to get some relevant information, improve their operational level, quickly place orders, and create hot products. However, some sellers are too utilitarian and are exploited by malicious scammers. They spend money to buy a lot of so-called internal training materials, but the sellers take the money and leave.

According to the deceived sellers, the sellers claimed that the materials on hand were Amazon super seller materials, hundreds of study documents, and were worth the money.

5. Help unblock accounts:

The victim’s self-report: Hello everyone, I also do business on Amazon. At the beginning of the year, my European site was blocked because of a product (it was formally authorized, but I couldn’t issue an invoice). When I was discouraged, a man named Kevin said that he was professional in helping people solve these problems. He said he could help me, because I met him through a friend (he also deceived my friend), so he asked me to pay him a deposit of more than 2,000 yuan, so I paid it. Everyone can imagine what happened next!

6. Taking goods to defraud money:

Register N vests, lure people with extremely low prices in various groups, and ship one box at a time. When you see that this person is in each group, do you relax? Will you be tempted by the low price? Then go ahead and purchase goods worth about 5,000 yuan, transfer money via WeChat, and then there will be no more!

7. Using orders to defraud goods:

Usually it is like this, the scammer claims to be a certain state-owned e-commerce platform, with N stores under it, and has a purchase order of 10 million, and everyone is willing to quote. This type is actually very common, the so-called wealthy type, this type of scammer specializes in doing this.

Because the Internet is very developed now, many scammers are very active online, and their methods of cheating are endless. So if you want to do cross-border e-commerce, you must first understand the news in this area to avoid being deceived.

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