Last week I encounter 2 cases of fraud cases in lelong and ebay. One involving my sister in ebay and the other from a friend in lelong. So the question is how safe is it to do online transaction? Are the rating in the profile of the seller enough to determine the seller credibility?
My sister make a deal with a seller in Melaka where the seller have good ratings in ebay since 2007. Looks promising and a good deal. Call up the buyer asking about the handphone and agree to bank in the money to the seller. After bank in the money seller said will send the item soon. After waiting for a week still not received the item. Call back but no reply. Even though my sister lost RM350 only but I heard many buyers was conned by this seller. Even there is a guy from Penang got cheated RM1000 by the seller and ask my sister what to do? So what can we do..... If you got the seller IC and bank account, u probably can do a police report at the Bukit Aman handling cyber crime. But chances of getting the culprit is not that big.
My other friend was cheated by a verified member in lelong. Thought that verified member won't cheat but still you never know. The person might be using others IC to verify. Again people trying to earn money by cheating people who genuinely want to do business online. My advice is if possible meet up to deal but then people do online business do safe time to meet up. Well hopefully one day we will have a better environment in our Malaysia cyber world to do online trading...... If you are cheated, it's good to make a police report at cyber crime unit so that they have a record. The more cases are reported, the more serious our police and government are more serious in the matter. If they can have cyber police to monitor blogs then why not be more effective in catching crime committed online.
If possible read the forums update to know whats happening. People post info about fraud cases to warn others.
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