Brendan Burgess
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Is it not possible to claim the cash back from your credit card in this scenario though, since it is fraud
if I paid by credit card, they told me, there would be a 17.5 per cent surcharge, but I could save this by transferring funds directly from my bank to theirs.
To be fair to the poor victim, while agreeing that should have been a red flag, there are legitimate companies that do have similar set ups. The 17.5% surcharge is very much over the odds (and common among fraudulent sites), but many (legit) companies will allow a discount for direct bank transfers (harwareversand, a very reputable German computer component supplier, come to mind - although the surcharge here for the use of PayPal is an additional 3%, so it's only to cover the additional fees they'd incur).in fairness though that should've been a major red flag, as should've been any mention of transferring funds to a bank account. 17.5% surcharge for a credit card surely should sound insane to a prospective customer!
Caveat emptor me thinks applies here.
Never believe the ads, especially gmail ads. I've notice one Irish shop keeps posting a gmail ad for a sale on say one brand, but when you go to their site theres always a lesser/different offer. I've reported it, but they keep on doing it. So the lesson is don't believe anything.
It was around the middle of January and I had mentioned in an email to a friend that I was on the point of investing in a top-end Canon camera that would also shoot high-definition video. Within seconds of sending this message, I was astonished to see an ad for my chosen camera pop up in the banner running across the top of my inbox.
A technical question
Does gmail scan the contents of your emails? Or was this as a result of internet searches he had done on Google?
I don't mind the internet searches so much, but I don't like the idea of Google Robots reading my emails which I had assumed were confidential?
To whom did you report it?
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