More people today are willing and comfortable buying from the internet. In fact, this will the trend and more goods and service will be transacted on line.
While legitimate merchants are striving hard to build credibility on line, scammers are also lurking on the un-suspect consumers and damaging the legitimate merchant's effort.
Some readers of celebrity blogger Dawn Yang have found themselves hundreds of dollars poorer because of an ad posted on her website. Read all about it
HereWhat has Dawn got to say? This is what she posted on her blog:
"Some time ago, I was approached to do an advertisement on my blog for the aforementioned website. I visited the online store, and since everything seemed professional and legitimate, I hence put up the advertisement. Subsequently I received e-mail complaints that it might be a scam, as such I put up a disclaimer and a warning to my readers to be careful. Unfortunately I later had to take everything down as another company contacted me to say that the website had unlawfully used their copyright images including the company logo, and requested I remove the entire ad in case their customers or any potential customers thought it was them.
I am deeply sorry and apologize to the affected readers who had purchased items from the fake store. I recommend them to make a police report, and I will gladly help furnish any available details I have of the company."
Is Dawn to be blamed? That's another subject..
Well, if the seller is asking for money to be transfered to a bank account, beware...
Legitimate seller will use proper "shopping carts" or Paypal (which is free to merchants).
So buyers, beware.