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Thoughts for a Safe Transaction

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All transactions should be entered into with care. Transactions are 100% your responsibility.

The following are a few thoughts that you may find helpful:

A) Beware the following red flags: 1) Items that are "too cheap"; 2) If it sounds too good to be true, it likely is; 3) Someone willing to overpay; 4) Odd shipping and delivery requests involving third parties; and 5) Heavy handed attempts to force payment methods without protection, such PayPal Friends and Family, bank transfers, venmo, or other cash-like digital payment methods;

B) There is almost certainly no recourse if you: 1) Pay for an item using PayPal Gift; 2) Ship to any address other than the address verified by the payment service; 3) Send money to people using Western Union or bank transfer; and 4) Send packages to other countries by any method that does not have tracking.

C) Beware when the sender of a pm appears to be reaching out on a friend's behalf, and suggests that you e-mail the friend. For example: “Joe here! Decided to drop you a PM in respect to your ad. Email Christine, [email address]. She is probably interested.”

4) “Trisha” posted an advertisement to sell a canoe for $400 Trisha received an email from “Jerry Smith” offering to purchase the canoe. Mr. Smith sent Trisha a check for $900, and instructed her to keep $400 and wire $500 to a shipper. Trisha did as she was instructed. Five days later, Trisha received a notice from her bank that the check was fraudulent. She is out $500.

5) Remember that links can be masked, and logos and trademarks can be faked online. If you intend to use what you believe is a well-known Internet payment service, visit that company’s website yourself, rather than trust the information that another party is suggesting, like a link in an e-mail.

6) Don’t be rushed. If someone really wants to do business with you, they will wait until you are ready to make a legitimate transaction. Do not let your eagerness to complete the transaction blind you to potential problems, like a last minute change in payment type, shipping address, etc..

7) Cashier’s checks are NOT the same as cash. Counterfeit checks can look very authentic. Just because the money appears to be available in your account doesn’t mean that the check has cleared and is legitimate. Federal rules require banks to make deposits “available” to consumers quickly, often the following business day. A check takes a long time to clear. It may take a bank weeks to discover that the deposited check was fraudulent. The bank may still bounce the check if it’s a forgery.

This is not comprehensive, and payment and scamming methods are changing and evolving all the time.

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