Is it true that cross-border e-commerce scams can lead to losing all your money? What scams are there?

The cross-border e-commerce market is still maintaining a rapid growth trend, but some countries have very strict taxation and supervision on cross-border e-commerce, while some merchants are relatively relaxed. Is it true that cross-border e-commerce merchants have been defrauded and lost all their money?

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What scams are there in the cross-border e-commerce field?

Scam 1: Taking goods to defraud money

Register N vests, lure people with extremely low prices in various groups, and ship one piece 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 and purchase goods worth about 5,000 yuan, transfer money via WeChat, and then there will be no more...

Scam 2: Using orders to steal 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.

Scam 3: 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.

Scam 4: Paypal account phishing

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.

Scam 5: 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.

Scam 6: 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.

In general, it is possible for cross-border e-commerce merchants to lose all their money due to fraud. And this has indeed happened, and the merchants who were deceived have even reported to the police. Therefore, when doing cross-border e-commerce, merchants must also understand clearly what scams there are.