Comments on: It is soooo easy to be an Internet Fraudster

By: hero

hero — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:25:30 +0000

ah, great - I place big fat orders (amazon loves me), I always have different invoice from delivery address, use my hotmail account and list my mobile as I have no landline… that’s it, I’m a fraudster!

By: JohnnyBoy

JohnnyBoy — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:09:32 +0000

At Sportzwear we go through all the same checks as prezzybox, and once upon a time we used to write to the cardholders address, which if it was a fraudulent order, at least would alert them to the fact. However, apart from the odd one that got back to us, we hardly ever even got a thanks, so as we also have the 3rd man facility with protx, if we’re in any doubt, we just email them saying that we cannot process the order to the requested delivery address, and suggest they re-order to be delivered to the cardholder address. Would be interested to know what response PrezzyBox get to sending a letter with a reference order, as it may be something we could resurrect, if it means keeping orders, thanks

By: Spreader

Spreader — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:21:56 +0000

Hello folks. Thanks for the reply. We actually managed to have a fraudster arrested and charged once, but it did take AGES and loads of faffing around visiting the police, making statements. It appears that there is no dedicated internet fraud team whereas I really think there should be one…

Fingers crossed, one day…

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:39:33 +0000

Yes, it’s a bloomin’ shame.

I reported one to the police recently. Lucky for me the fraudster lives locally so the police were really proactive and have put in a lot of time taking statements etc.

Hopefully we may get an arrest.

Worryingly both card holder victims had not ever shopped online but had recently purchased by phone from a large cosmetics retailer in Northampton - could it be a dodgy phone operator there who is to blame?

By: Kev Forth

Kev Forth — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:32:55 +0000

Could not agree more Zak, fortunately most of the fraudsters are not very bright we had one a while ago who tried to order one of everything we had on the site.

We will normally send a letter to the registered address like yourself and this will hopefully root out any fraudsters.

By: Lee Mccoy

Lee Mccoy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:20:57 +0000

The police just aren’t interested.

The Christmas before last I got set two watches and some aftershave from the US. I thought rufus was telling me I’m always late and I spell crap - but it was a fraudulent order.

The guy had got my details (I only used that card once on the internet a few days before - from an un-named merchant).

The funny thing was, that the company sent the products to my address as the cardholder address and not the “deliver to” address. Even funnier was that I was given the guy’s name, address and mobile number on the dispatch note.

I reported it to the police and basically they couldn’t give a ….

But worse was that I got a bill from Fed Ex for the VAT of the products (about £30). I refused to pay, and it went on for months hagling.

In the end, good honest people like ourselves get stiched up all the time and the crooks get away with it!

And that also goes for this industry! “Stand well back!”