The police in the Belgium Dendermonde is investigating more than 1,400 cases of scams via commerce sites. The scammers vervalsten e-mails from PayPal to sellers of locality between money to leave.
A politiewoordvoerder to the Belgian newspaper De Morgen to know that the scammers sellers were trying to mislead by giving them money to leave via Western Union. They did this by telling a story where the so-called buyer on an oil rig works and the product offered by payment via PayPal want to buy for a son on the mainland. This allowed the scammers know extra money will be transfer to the additional costs for transport and handling to cover.
To the seller money to make, then an e-mail from PayPal is bogus, in which it was reported that the entire amount was transferred to the PayPal account of the seller. This had to then the extra amount paid for additional costs for transport and handling, pay via Western Union, after which the crooks off with the money went.
The Belgian police would be 1,400 victims identified in a similar manner are approached by the scammers. It is not yet known how much damage in total is ago. Nor is known whether there recently on a larger scale similar practices in the Netherlands have taken place.