Fighting Internet Auction fraud is by Ulf Wolf Cyber Crime again for 2007. Hardly news, of course, it’s no secret that spreading further and deeper by the hour plague. And here’s another news surprised at the head of the pack, as last year: Internet auction fraud. The FBI Numbers, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NWC3), recently released its 2007 figures on computer crime complaints received and to law enforcement authorities. Here, too, showed the figures, the Internet auction fraud was by far the most reported offense in 2007, it had extensive 35th 7% of all complaints. In addition, during the same period, the non-delivery of goods and / or payment from non-auction Internet transactions represented more 24th 9%, pegging the total online sales of fraud in connection with complaints at 60. 6% of all Internet fraud. Internet Auction Fraud as too many users do not realize that when something is bought on an Internet auction, it is not purchased in the auction (eg eBay or Yahoo), but by a single person or company. The auction site as a go-between-merely provides a forum where people can trade with each other, and it usually takes experienced and prominent one-firm policy of washing hands of legal responsibility for losses from their service. Following the tender, the payment and delivery of the goods bought and sold is negotiated between the buyer and seller. If the item is not delivered after it is paid or not, which are represented on the auction site, the auction house refund of any money. It is for the buyer to the seller approach to a just and fair solution to negotiate. The statutory warranties, the goods do not normally cover for the trade bought at auction. The seller is only obliged to give clear title. Therefore, you should note the following when dealing with online auctions, or whenever you buy something online, especially from a private party: Do you see works like the auction, what your obligations are as a buyer and what are the obligations of the seller before you bid; Find out what actions the auction house takes if a problem occurs and consider insuring the transaction and shipment; Be aware that, if a problem should occur with a sale transaction, will clarify it difficult whether the seller is located outside the United States laws may vary from country to country learning, as much as possible about the seller, especially if the only information that you have an e-mail address is; Before you make a payment for an auction sale to make should check your seller’s identity and contact information in case there is a problem with the delivery of the item, ask the seller can be expected at delivery and whether the product is covered by the warranty if you must exchange; registered or certified mail to enable tracing, it is claimed that the package was mailed, but must remove since “Lost in the mail”; Check whether the auction account information via e-mail, phone number, and each account and Location Hits; ‘s auction feedback forums to departure of the history prior agreement to pay Seller’s money. Please note, however, that organize the sellers sometimes post positive comments about themselves or other people to do so on their behalf. And here is the most important advice of all: If you have any doubts about the integrity of an online auction sellers and even if you do not: the use of a trustee. An escrow agent or company is an independent third party trustee holds the payment until the buyer receives and accepts the position of the seller. During this service a fee, it protects the buyer because the third party will hold the money until the goods in good condition, inspected have been received and accepted, and only released to the seller. Internet Escrow The principle of the Internet and escrow process is the same as with the purchase and sale of homes, of course, where the trustee is deemed necessary because of the amounts involved. The buyer or seller of opening accounts at the online trust; The prospective member will send a bank transfer, check or credit card to the trustee, the trustee verifies that the funds actually exist, or that the buyer who is represented and to be himself held by the credit card is used; Once these checks, the trustee asks the seller ship the goods, merchandise is shipped, and the seller bears tracking information, once the shipment of the goods shown on site, provided the trust company double checks at the To ensure buyer has the goods in hand, the buyer now has an agreed amount of time, either the product or return it to the seller, once accepted by the buyer, is the trustee of the money to the seller, minus processing fees and commissions . Simple enough. If, that is, you are a legitimate online trust have to do. Fighting the Fighter, but the world as we know, like throwing us curves, and comes in this case, the curve in the guise of escrow fraud. Handling, how it works, significant amounts of money, the trustee often themselves the target of fraud, where-look-alike phishing sites try to use you, rather than the bona fide con site and the trust concept itself is also striking from criminals who set up fraudulent escrow sites, where the money would only be one-way: you guessed it, away from you abused. In fact, the problem of fake online escrow sites is so large that some serious and legitimate escrow sites have simply thrown in the towel. Buyer Guardian, for example, recently closed its doors for wire fraud theft of their business, and sent the following note on her website: “We are sad to report that after careful and long consideration, we have to decide surgery BuyerGuardian not made. com. This is a very difficult decision and one that was primarily due to the rapid growth of online escrow fraud. “Many of these seemingly bona fide escrow company, established for the sole purpose of enriching the criminal are set up off-shore mainly in Russia or China, where lax laws Cyber-crime (and sometimes questionable cooperation with U.S. authorities) makes it more difficult to shut down the sides and the perpetrators to justice. Enter: Escrow. com Actually Escrow. com entered this fray almost years dot during-com boom of ten and has shown over the years, to the online escrow company for safe and fraud less auction and other online sales turn / purchase transactions with the credentials and stay to demonstrate power. Licensed by the State of California require as well as by the states of Idaho and Arizona, which license separate escrow. com is the only online credentialed trust company to serve every State of the Union, and not in fact so 24 / 7 During Escrow. com, transactions of all sizes, there can be no financial sense to them for low cost items since their transaction fee is again $ 25, and their commission is $ 63 per $ 1,000 value of the transaction, if payment is by credit card and $ 32 50 per $ 1,000 for bank transfers. But if you value your sleep, Escrow. com would be indispensable for any transaction of $ 250 on up. Peace of Mind Michigan-based telecomclassifiedads. com, which buys and sells expensive telecommunications switching equipment would be approved, not after Mickey Fivenson, complete all online transactions without Escrow. com. “I use Escrow. Com for all my equipment transactions, and without them I would not be in business. It is so easy.” I deal with buyers and sellers on a daily basis who do not know each other and live in different parts of the world. Escrow. com is the only way I complete a transaction between them. “As a result, after five years of operations of the Escrow. Com I was never to have anything other than satisfied customers.” Dave Kurko RPM Auto Wholesale in Pleasant Hill, CA could not agree more: “Escrow. Com a safety net provides for both sellers and buyers and provides security in an uncertain world.” Most people understand the concept of trust, especially if they bought and real estate sold in a jurisdiction that uses an escrow company, conducts a lawyer instead of a real estate transaction, in fact, we have modeled our business on the real estate transaction. Escrow. com has made this approach not only possible but also very effective. “They are very customer oriented and thanks to their technical support, we were able to integrate the opening of an escrow account with them in our own web-hosted application, so to speak our CRM software directly to its database on a secure server.” Really, they are the only game in town. We looked for other companies, and no one else measures. “Escrow. Com-The Detective During Escrow. Com is increasingly recognized as an Internet escrow companies for the peace of the train e-commerce spirit, its employees, on a daily basis, even hunting and are working diligently to shut down fraudulent scams that daily . pushed and they sprout like mushrooms, these scams: There are days, Escrow. com employees discovered as many as ten new such sites. A few clever fraud copies can be found (if they have at the time of print) for safe-wayonline . com and trust holdings. net, both of which were confirmed as illegal. You certainly can not blame these criminals for lack of professional design. The good news is that these sites are detected, authorities are alerted, and the pages are now gone from the air. I weigh the largest auction house eBay quote of all, pay eBay: Safe – Beware of False escrow services if you consider them for payment of your eBay. For eBay transactions, you should only use eBay Escrow Company approved: Escrow. com avoided. To deceived by fraudulent e-mails from a fake escrow service, you should use the escrow service’s website to information, you check received by email. Make sure you type the entire web address ( For example, www. trust account. com) in your web browser. Do not let your Web browser auto-complete the web address for you. It could mistakenly auto-complete a fraudulent Web address. Learn more about escrow: http:// pages. ebay. com / help / confidence / trust account payment. html Escrow. The com-Household name is even more important, however, as Escrow. com gains more and more recognition on the way to become a household name, is it harder and harder for the fraudsters to the public for the excellent reason that they are not Escrow cheat. com is the only name you know you can trust. Here’s to peace of mind and a good night’s sleep. Coeur d’Alene, Idaho type-based Ulf Wolf writes about cyber crime for Words & Images (Ulf @ words. com)
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