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May 29, 2006

Auction Genius Course Student Offers PayPal Fraud Warning

An Auction Genius Course student offers a PayPal fraud warning:

Just a note of caution. I recently purchased a Bulk Mailer for sending to a list of Double Opt-In leads I have. I went to the Website and paid by PayPal. The Website offered a Free Trial and 8 bonuses. I paid through PayPal. After a few days I kept e-mailing the contact address and they said they were waiting for Faxing of my details to send my Registration number. After another couple of days, I phoned the company in USA and to my horror discovered they had not received a payment from me. ($299) They have investigated and found a Spoof Website had mirror copied their details including their PayPal payment page and the payment had disappeared to the Fraudster. Needless to say, I have notified payPal and the Spoof site is now down. Hopefully PayPal will cover me for the money I lost. It is a salutary warning to be always on guard on the Net. The Fraudsters are getting better at copying legitimate PayPal forms.

Once again ... always, always, ALWAYS go directly to PayPal.com and login through your own account when paying via this popular channel!

Posted by SydneyJohnston at May 29, 2006 12:48 PM

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