Up till now, I have been very successful at buying items off of Craigslist. Both dealing locally and having people send me stuff after paying through Paypal. I just settled (Paypal gave me my money back) on an Eiffel Tower set and now thinking that I am going to get burned on a snowspeeder. My questions is how do these scams work? As long as the transaction goes through Paypal, I'm going to get my money back as long as I can prove that the items was never shipped/received. Once Paypal judges in my favor, I assume that they send Lefty and Guido over to the perps house to collected what is owed. Am I wrong? Is it Paypal that ends up holding the bag? Do the folks committing the scam spend a bunch of time creating bogus addresses and ID's so Paypal can’t track them down?? Since the money gets to the person, Paypal at least has a legitimate bank account number so I would think it would be easy for them to track down the persons committing the fraud. As a side topic, I think it might be a good idea if the moderators created a "Fraud Alert" category where we could post scams. (Like the fact that I saw the Eiffel tower in three different cities after I contacted the "seller".)
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