Be careful of the fake e-commerce employees on the dating software, there are no special activities for Shopee and PChome merchants at all, and the pre-deposited amount to grab the goods is a scam!

Sep 14, 2022

Recently, many people have encountered employees who claim to be e-commerce platforms on dating software. They pretend to ask you to help you log in, but in fact they want to reach out to you to defraud you. "Special activities", the pre-deposited amount to buy goods in exchange for cash back, in fact, this is all fake, once the money goes in, it will not come out again.

Recently, many card friends on Dcard are discussing new fraud methods such as " Shopee Merchant Only "

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In fact, such fraudulent tactics have long been used not only for shopee, but also for merchant-specific frauds including counterfeit PChome and momo , which have been reported by the public one after another. Let's take a look at what kind of fraudulent tactics this is.

What is a "merchant only" scam?

Fraud groups usually pretend to be the e-commerce platform and provide a merchant-specific reward activity. The invited merchants can enter the designated website to register and receive cash rewards.

The way to receive the cash back is to ask the user to store the value first, and then snap up different levels of goods according to the amount of the stored value. The customer service will say that these goods will not really be sent to your home, but will be returned in cash. your account.

To put it bluntly, this is like an investment scam that always likes to say "make sure you don't lose" .

"Merchant Only" Fraud Process

Step1. Get acquainted with dating software

Victims on Dcard all recognized employees who claimed to be working in Shopee, PChome, and momo through dating software . Later, after chatting with Line for a while, the other party suddenly asked for help.

Step2. Please help to operate his account

At this time, he will suddenly send you a website like an e-commerce platform, and give you the account password, please help you log in to the "Designated Reward Products from Shopee Preferred Seller"

After crawling through the posts and messages of netizens, I found that many people received the same account and password . This group of accounts is simply a standard demonstration account.

Because at this stage, your role is to go back and forth between the customer service on the web page and the employee who commands an action. After helping him log in, tell the customer service to pre-deposit the specified amount, and then the customer service will give you a set of accounts. You send money in, then the employee will be responsible for the money transfer and provide a proof of remittance, and then ask you to transfer it to the customer service, or the other party may directly give you a set of bank accounts for you to help him bind

Next, he will explain to you that this website is a merchant-only event, and it happens that he has a merchant friend who does not need it before giving it to him. In this website, you can buy goods through cash stored value, and the goods you grab will actually become cash back to you, that is, the more goods you successfully grab, the more your balance will be.

When you think this process is strange, he will say it is used for tax avoidance

The source of the dialogue record in the picture below: #InvestmentfraudShopee Merchant Only...New Fraud Method

Some people here receive not only Shopee merchants (left in the picture below), but PChome (right in the picture below), momo

Regardless of the name of the e-commerce business, these websites are very rudimentary. Except for the login and registration pages, there are no other explanation pages or even homepages.

Step3. Send you an invitation code

After you did it once for him and saw his account balance increase with your own eyes, your heart may be pounding, wondering where this good thing can be added

At this time, the other party just gave you an extra set of invitation codes, and it is also in the form of a beautiful invitation letter , allowing you to use this set of invitation codes to register the "merchant-only" website

Step4. Store value to grab goods

Next, after successful registration, you will fall into the trap, thinking that using the same method to store up the amount of money and snap up the goods will allow you to make money

There have been many victims who have stated that they can't get the order after depositing the value, and the money is stuck in it and cannot be increased or returned.

Some people were deceived by customer service to upgrade their members, and they lost 700,000 at one time.

These are scam URLs!

Recently, a large number of such merchant-specific fraudulent websites have appeared. At present, these URLs have been collected. If you encounter them too, please be careful!

Fake Shrimp :

www[.]shopeez[.]cn
www[.]twshopee[.]top
www[.]shopees[.]club

Fake PChome :

24pcbuymore[.]com
pc24buyer[.]com

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