Are YOU Being Scammed Too? Potentially Bogus PayPal Orders - Any Idea Why?

Since it all happened in the last week, I would give it more time to shake out. You may be right, and you end up getting a bunch of Paypal transaction reversed. Not too good, but you just notified PP, so it's just watch and wait.

there are certain services you can use to check the guys ip address against the physical address he has on his paypal profile. If the distances are too far or if hes using a proxy, the service will show it, so you'll know its fraud. I use that and it helps for most cases with stolen cards..But youll need to capture the guys ip. which at this point would require emailing him back and asking him to fill some form where you could record his ip.

probably stolen cards. the buyers wanted to buy your stuff, but did not want to use their own money. so they are on a spending spree now.

once the owner of the financial assets picks up on what is going on, the chargebacks will come.

That really Sux when it happens if it is bogus.. Most of us wait for the day when our sales $$ will blow up only to have some @sswipes give us false success. Hope it is legit and you just getting money!

Email the suspicious customers and tell them that you want to give them a bonus in exchange for their telephone number. Then call them and feel it out.

wow I guess its some stolen cards just like someone mentioned above.

Scammers are everywhere. If you think it is scam, report it to the concern people to solve your problem.

Dr. Mani - Hope this specific occurences which ultimately became a situation for you to
share, does NOT end up with you becoming scammed.

I am one of your ardent followers who have been helped out in identifying - my life's
purposes, redefining values & to a new mode of realising that one can Think.

Knowing that you have completed specialty training in medical school more than a
decade & then embarking on, in the pursuit of doing something exeptional to the
underpriviledged children in the field of Heart Surgery, Free, is not feat that any one
could dare to, dream of.

I have been reading your works and I am not surprised that you think much more & far
ahead, than when it (Thinking) is normally allowed to happen in 'JUST' mode.

Using the services of 'Paypal like' - is a necessity to almost anyone, right now.
One does not have to read late Sir. Arthur C. Clarke - to see tha light.

The one bite bitten "apple" may be trend.
But getting to know & realising the visions of the Late Visionary is a must for
e-commerce.

The beauty of this situ is the reply you got from Paypal:

" indicated that since the transactions were completed, they couldn't investigate it
UNLESS the buyer opened a dispute".

Who is Paypal serving - whats the prime number !!?
Is it the buyer or their client, may I ask !! ?

Without the Seller where would Paypal be !! ?
Is not the Seller, their (Paypal's) client, in the first place - in the process !!?

This should make them realise their (Paypal's) intermediary role as well as their bounded
obligation to their customers.

Let this be the final nail on - 'Thinking Customer Service'.

You, Sir, never mention about your family on the www.

OK! it might be not necessary, to be alarmed.
I sincerely, hope not.

But it is IMPORTANT to think about this occurence of, 'repeated suspicious occurences'.

And it is URGENT for us to think about the whole gamut of 'Customer Xperience' if we do
not want to spare any holes.
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Hey Doc,

If your products are all being sold through RAP you
can access the RAP admin area and check details
such as IP address.

Also, it may simply be that a smart affiliate has found
your products are being sold through RAP and has sent
you some quality traffic.

I guess it's a sign of the times that even a nice increase
in income makes us suspicious. <sigh>

John

I didn't read the whole thread so I apologize if this has been mentioned, but this can be scammers who've purchased credit card numbers online, *testing* different cards to see if they work... I've had this happen on several merchant accounts and there's not really any good solution (that I've come up with anyhow) other than refunding the orders immediately, so that they don't result in chargebacks. If it's all done through one IP address and not a proxy, hopefully you can have your web host block the IP.

-Bryan

I'm just wondering if there could be a more innocent explanation such as someone has written a blog post recommending your site or this product?

Have you done a search to see if you can find your product mentioned anywhere else?

This is a serious issue. Is it really true that you will be scammed at Paypal? Is what i learned Paypal is good in knowing fraud credit card.

Sounds like a chargeback is coming your way!

Or perhaps you just got a lucky month....

I doubt that though.

Dr. Mani,

Like Big Mike, I wouldn't worry about it right now, but if you want someone else to look closely at the info, submit a Help Desk ticket to me at Help - Powered By The 'Three Pillars' Support Desk System

There is info in the RAP database that is not shown on any of the reports, so with your cPanel login info (be sure to provide that), I can dig into the information more readily than most RAP users.

You can also set the "Email IPN Log" option in your RAP product set up, so that all of that information is emailed to you as the transactions occur. It will contain every field in the IPN transaction that was sent to your web server when the transaction was completed. (Be sure to look at the "custom" field in the IPN. It contains the buyers IP address.)

I always run with that option set, myself.

goldliger's response (above) regarding the *testing* of stolen credit cards, using online payment services, is also worth noting. This DOES happen at Paypal, too, and when it is identified, there should be no penalties with regard to a subsequent chargeback.

Again, contact me, and I'll have a look at it myself, if you want.

Dr. Mani,

Like it's been said, I wouldn't worry about it for now. You contacted PayPal and made them aware if it, so that's the best bet for now. Helps protect you down the road.

Having Sid look at things is next.

Then, if there is a problem, I would recommend Bill and Erin's 'Ban Buyers' add on. At least then you can ensure that they won't be able to buy again.

Thanks,

John

You have to watch the affiliate scammers that buy your product with stolen credit cards in the hope that you will send them real affiliate commissions before the chargebacks roll in.
This is why I tell people NOT to use a mindless Mass Pay system that simply selects a date range and pays everyone in that range.

You always need to retain a "human filter" on payments before you send the cash.

What I believe would be best is to wait it out and see. Also There are lot of Affiliate marketers(spammers) that use Stolen Credit Cards wishing to receive real affiliated progress.

Don't you just hate that. You can't celebrate the joy of making money because there's a chance you might be losing it in the near future. I hope it all works out in your favor at the end.