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In 2020, the sudden outbreak of the epidemic gave rise to the "stay-at-home economy" and promoted the rapid development of the cross-border e-commerce industry. While attracting many sellers to join the industry and make a lot of money, various chaos in the industry are becoming more and more frequent. Among them, Amazon is the world's largest cross-border e-commerce platform, and the industries related to it are also deeply buried with various hidden dangers. There are many fraudulent routines in agency operations, and there are frequent cases of fraudulent sellers by pretending to be official emails... Just a few days ago, we received a tip that several sellers had been scammed by an unscrupulous evaluation scam. Multiple sellers have encountered review scams! Recently, an Amazon seller revealed to the media that a review scam had occurred in the Amazon seller group. The seller said that after he put a new product on the shelves, due to insufficient orders for the new product, he planned to increase the order volume by placing two orders without reviews, so he found an overseas review service provider who was in a relatively active seller group. ▲ The picture comes from the seller’s disclosure At first, the seller told the overseas reviewer that he only needed to post two review-free orders , and the reviewer readily agreed. But that was when the scam began. After the seller provided him with his ASIN, the so-called reviewer quickly placed three orders , one more than the two required by the seller. Not only did he not agree to the seller's request to "refund the extra order", he also threatened the seller that if he could not refund the three orders, he would apply for a refund for all orders. ▲ The picture comes from the seller’s disclosure Based on this, the seller who originally wanted to ask for a refund chose to compromise because he was worried that the high return rate would affect the sales of new products. However, the evaluation service provider not only did not stop there, but also went further and added an extra 6 orders , and used a "two-pronged approach" of coercion and pity to ask the sellers to pay for it.
▲ The picture comes from the seller’s disclosure In the end, the seller chose to pay for the extra orders, but the fraudulent service provider revealed its true colors after the seller returned the money . It canceled all the original orders, absconded with the money, and has not responded to any messages from the seller since then. ▲ The picture comes from the seller’s disclosure Afterwards, the seller recalled that he was too lacking in vigilance and hoped to expose the scammer's scam tactics to prevent more sellers from being deceived.
▲ The picture shows the WeChat of the fraudulent service provider, which comes from the seller’s disclosure However, we also learned that the seller’s experience of being deceived is not an isolated case. Amazon-related service fraud is frequent
In the seller community, many sellers have recently stated that they have been deceived by overseas service providers who pretended to be sellers and entered the group to provide evaluation services. ▲ The picture comes from the seller communication group The scam routines of this type of evaluation scam are summarized as follows: 1. Impersonate a seller to join the community; 2. Release overseas evaluation services in the community; 3. Add more evaluation orders and use threats, pity tactics and other tactics to ask sellers to pay back the money; 4. Directly apply for an order refund after the seller returns the money, and then "disappear" after taking the seller's refund. Judging from the current situation, there have been many cases of foreigner review fraud recently, so some sellers speculate that this is most likely a gang crime. ▲ The picture comes from the seller’s disclosure It is worth noting that according to the experience feedback from multiple sellers who have dealt with scammers, most of these fraudulent accounts come from overseas, and the regions shown include the United States, Germany, etc. , and after adding WeChat, WeChat will prompt "The security of the other party's account is unknown" and there is suspicion. Based on this, we remind all sellers to be vigilant when encountering the above-mentioned types of accounts. In fact, many novices are often deceived by this type of scam when they first enter the industry due to lack of experience, information asymmetry and other reasons. And it is not limited to evaluations. Other services such as follow-up sales, brand changes, whitelists, etc. have also seen scams of "running away after collecting the money" . In order to help sellers reduce the risk of being deceived, we share the exposure evaluation platform here for sellers to review before deciding to cooperate with relevant service providers. So far, the evaluation blacklist tool has included 190,440 blacklists, all of which are scammer lists reported by real sellers. Sellers can directly enter the contact information of their partners in the search box to search and avoid service providers with a "bad record". Website evaluation exposure address: http://www..com/forum-3.htm (copy the link and open it in your browser) Nowadays, the cross-border e-commerce industry is in constant turmoil and chaos. Many rampant scams on Amazon target sellers' eagerness for quick results and high returns with low investment. Therefore, for sellers, while taking relevant measures and maintaining a high degree of vigilance to prevent fraud, they should also focus on studying operational skills and creating sophisticated products, which is the long-term way to survive on Amazon. Amazon Global Selling Summit Guest Lineup Revealed Amazon's celebrity team will provide you with advice on cross-border business The number of places is limited, scan the QR code to register now! Shenzhen's year-end appointment with you on November 16th is not to be missed
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