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Shopping Scams Reports - Scams in Stores and Online

Online shopping scams are as frequent as legitimate online stores. Below are direct, unedited reports from consumers of their own experiences. If you have follow-up to either substantiate or rebut an experience below or your own story to add, please tell us about it!  

The internet isn't the only place where you can be scammed.  Brick-and-mortar stores, shopping malls, the grocery store, Wal-Mart, and other shopping areas are also places where criminals operate their scams.

When you are out in public, shopping in a store:

• Always keep you purse or wallet in your hand or securely inside a tight pocket.  Pick-pockets like to operate in close quarters and crowded locations, and can remove your wallet from even an inside pocket without you realizing.
• Some thieves will fill a shopping cart with similar items, so when you aren't looking they can switch carts.  If you left your purse or wallet in the cart, it can be minutes before your realize the switch, and by then, the criminal is gone.

• March 13, 2008: www.kingelectronics.net.tc has scammed me and has offered to send me a cashiers check of a higher amount than what i paid for and asked me to wire it over. i realized half way through i had gotten scammed and tried numerous ways to get my money back i have all my conversations and mtcns saved fromwestern union and i know there is nothing i can do so i guess it is best just to warn people about this website they also use emails like king_plaza@hotmail.com king_plaza29@hotmail.com veronicelectronicsplaza@hotmail.com  i have also tried to reply to posts that they have put up to warn people

   

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Names used by scammers in the examples on this page and others often belong to real people and businesses who often have no knowledge of nor connection to the scammer's use of their name and information.  Sample scam emails and other documents are copies of the scam to help potential victims recognize and avoid it.  You should presume that any names used and presented here in a scam are either fictitious or used without their legitimate owner's permission.
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