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These types of scams rose by 76% from 2019 to 2020. Just under 100,000 Americans were impacted by this type of e-commerce crime and collectively lost $217 million.

Recently, however, Lathan lost $56,000 to an ecommerce scheme that allegedly defrauded its customers of at least $25 million, according to a lawsuit filed in September by the Federal Trade Commission.

The report’s authors predict that digital e-skimming and scam e-commerce will dominate fraud incidents in 2025. Dark web marketplaces are expected to remain central to payment fraud.

Today, Facebook launches a new e-commerce review option inside its “Recent Ads Activity” dashboard that lets buyers give feedback about slow shipping times, weird smells, and junky merchandise.

Such plans are now offered by at least five insurers in Singapore. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

For some time now, I’ve been wanting to write about the seed parcels sent by Chinese e-commerce companies to huge numbers of people around the world, most of whom had never ordered them. Such ...

“This is what they do for a living, so they’re always looking for new twists to scams.” According to the FBI, Hawaii residents lost $51.7 million to internet crime last year.

More recently, Christmas-related products have flooded feeds, including Pimentel’s trees. Abraham, at the ECommerce foundation, says that scams increase by 40% during the holiday season.

These scam e-commerce sites that exist for only a matter of days. They rip off consumers, and disappear. They charge the consumers’ credit cards with no intention of ever shipping any product.