It was learned from Nanjing Xuanwu police that a new type of fraud appeared in the field of online shopping. After the suspect obtained the buyer's online shopping information, he pretended to be a consumer to modify the delivery address and "changed the address and robbed the goods."
According to the Yangzi Evening News, recently, Ms. Li, a luxury goods seller in Taobao in Nanjing, encountered this scam. The buyer said that he had not received the Rolex watch worth nearly 100,000 yuan online, but Ms. Li insisted that the other party had signed for it. The police intervened and found out that it was a scammer who pretended to be the buyer and asked Ms. Li to modify the delivery address. The goods were not sent to the real buyer at all, but were sent to a place thousands of kilometers away from the buyer. The police said that the scammers have now developed a reverse thinking and have transferred the target of the fraud from buyers to sellers. They are indeed "innovative" enough, and Taobao sellers need to strengthen their prevention.
On October 5, Nanjing Houzaimen Police Station received a report from a citizen Ms. Li, who claimed that a Rolex watch worth nearly 100,000 yuan was cheated out. Ms. Li said that she is an online salesperson and specializes in selling luxury goods. Not long ago, someone took a Rolex watch priced at 97,000 yuan in Ms. Li’s online store through an online shopping platform. Not long after the transaction, a strange account contacted Ms. Li, claiming to be a customer who had just bought a Rolex watch and now wants to change the delivery address.
Because the other party could tell detailed shopping information, Ms. Li had no doubts and immediately sent the goods according to the new address given by the other party. However, a few days later, Ms. Li received a complaint from customers that she had not received the goods. Ms. Li immediately checked the logistics information and found that it had signed for it. Miss Li was very angry. The other party clearly received it, but he lied to ask for a refund. Isn’t this causing her losses? So she immediately called the police to seek justice. After the police contacted the customer, the other party said that he had never asked Ms. Li to change the address, and he only had one account on the shopping website.
The truth: The scammer pretends to be a buyer and "changes the address and robs the goods"!
"Based on this, we judged that someone pretended to be a buyer and asked Ms. Li to change the address." The police officer in charge of the case told reporters that through inquiry, the police found that the changed delivery address was far away from other places thousands of kilometers away, and the delivery address was also a public place. Police analyzed that this is a new type of scam. After the suspect obtained the shopping information, he pretended to be a buyer and "changed the address and robbed the goods." So, how did the suspect quickly obtain buyer information and then commit fraud? At present, the specific methods are not clear, and the police are conducting further investigation into the matter.
The police told reporters that previous frauds mostly targeted buyers. For example, they sent fake URL links, saying that the shopping was unsuccessful, and asked the buyer to click to refund the money, cheating the buyer away money. With the increase in such frauds and the repeated reminders of the police in terms of prevention, buyers' awareness of fraud has increased, making the difficulty of fraudsters' frauds have increased. In response to this situation, the scammers quickly began to evolve, and went against the rules, and even started to think in reverse and started to commit fraud from the seller. The police remind sellers that when they encounter changes in the receiving address, they should verify with the buyer themselves and call for verification if necessary. As a buyer, you should pay attention to protecting your personal privacy and not disclose your user account or other information to others.
So, how is the operation of "changing the address and robbing goods"? The police in Nanjing are investigating this scam, and some police from other places have analyzed the implementation process of such scams:
1. The suspect searches for a specific Taobao seller online and pretends to contact us to buy it;
2. Then post the Taobao link of the item on certain trading forums to lure a third person to take photos of the item on Taobao and pay;
3. The suspect contacted the seller again and said that the payment had been made and requested to modify the delivery address;
4. Ultimately achieve the purpose of fraudulent valuable goods.
Police remind: When encountering a buyer "changing the address", you must confirm it repeatedly
The police analyzed that such fraud cases have begun to appear recently, and criminals specifically look for sellers with low awareness of prevention. After determining the target, they pretended to contact and purchase. Then, the item advertisement was posted on the forum, luring a third party to auction the goods and pay, and then contact the seller that he had paid and asked to modify the delivery address, which ultimately achieved the purpose of fraudulent valuable goods. "Because the buyer often changes the delivery address during the transaction process and does have real payments in the online store, it is difficult for the victim to distinguish the authenticity of the goods for a while and it is easy to be cheated."
It should be noted that such means are very easy to imitate, and item trading websites such as "Ganji.com" and "58.com" may become platforms for breeding such crimes.
The police reminded that the methods of committing crimes in such cases are novel and easy to be imitated. The majority of online store practitioners should improve their awareness of identifying and preventing such fraudulent means, try to contact buyers through Taobao Wangwang chat software, and do not easily believe in chat transactions outside Taobao and leave evidence. In short, when a buyer wants to change the address, you must pay special attention and confirm it repeatedly.
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