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Re: I reported this site to PayPal and they still accept payments to this day

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Post by DoctorOW » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 4:16 PM UTC

josephcsible wrote: post #9

DoctorOW wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why I defend the controversial Cloudflare policy of being so slow and deliberate in removing things.

Hasn't Cloudflare started removing a lot more lately than they ever used to?

I've not heard that. From my current understanding, they generally don't evict a site when there is no risk of legal action. Maybe you're thinking of their reputation for being too strict on filtering TOR users?

Re: I reported this site to PayPal and they still accept payments to this day

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Post by mikulabc » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 4:25 PM UTC

CodeWriter23 wrote: post #7

mikulabc wrote: post #2

They did not even bother to change anything - the email to something more trustworthy, they use cong513489038@gmail.com and a295224870@gmail.com and others on different pages - the domain in the privacy policy is linking to carvemyname.com but the title on hover is getphotopuzzle.com which both are not the actual site - the title of the site is "BESTSHOP" and the domain is personablee.com - On the footer, they did no…

> They did not even bother to change anything Could be they have no consumers disputing charges. They get enough of those and they will take action.

Because consumers are still waiting for their product and customer support says to wait, and then they refund not to get in trouble, but enough people don't think this far and when the moment comes to get a refund, the criminals will have withdrawn all the money already and PayPal will not do anything about it

Re: I reported this site to PayPal and they still accept payments to this day

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Post by josephcsible » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

DoctorOW wrote: post #11

josephcsible wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hasn't Cloudflare started removing a lot more lately than they ever used to?

I've not heard that. From my current understanding, they generally don't evict a site when there is no risk of legal action. Maybe you're thinking of their reputation for being too strict on filtering TOR users?

I definitely wasn't thinking of the Tor thing. Maybe I was just overestimating how common it was. Looking again, the only sites I can find that Cloudflare evicted even though there was no risk of legal action were the Daily Stormer and 8chan.

Re: I reported this site to PayPal and they still accept payments to this day

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Post by silvershell » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 4:38 PM UTC

Last November I did an impulse buy for a Breville coffee machine on a site. It was one of those "countdown" super sales. One hour later after the purchase I contacted the seller and he refunded me the paypal... fortunately. But the site definitely looked scammy. I notified Paypal and Shopify. It's so easy nowadays to create nice looking sites in a platform like Shopify that will give a veneer of legitimacy. Anyway, that scammy site is gone. I wonder how many fell for this one. I should have checked how soon the site was taken down.

Re: I reported this site to PayPal and they still accept payments to this day

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Post by the-dude » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

Clickbaity title.

To this day makes it seem a really long time, but author is here and claims it is just a few days.

Re: I reported this site to PayPal and they still accept payments to this day

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Post by josephcsible » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 4:45 PM UTC

the-dude wrote: post #15

Clickbaity title. To this day makes it seem a really long time, but author is here and claims it is just a few days.

With these sorts of scam sites, a few days is plenty of time to take everyone's money and run.

Re: I reported this site to PayPal and they still accept payments to this day

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Post by mikulabc » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 4:54 PM UTC

josephcsible wrote: post #16

the-dude wrote: post #15

Clickbaity title. To this day makes it seem a really long time, but author is here and claims it is just a few days.

With these sorts of scam sites, a few days is plenty of time to take everyone's money and run.

This.

Re: I reported this site to PayPal and they still accept payments to this day

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Post by mikulabc » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 4:55 PM UTC

silvershell wrote: post #14

Last November I did an impulse buy for a Breville coffee machine on a site. It was one of those "countdown" super sales. One hour later after the purchase I contacted the seller and he refunded me the paypal... fortunately. But the site definitely looked scammy. I notified Paypal and Shopify. It's so easy nowadays to create nice looking sites in a platform like Shopify that will give a veneer of legitimacy. Anyway, t…

The site doesn't even use Shopify, some chinese ecom cms, shopify would shut down the site

Re: I reported this site to PayPal and they still accept payments to this day

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Post by the-dude » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 4:56 PM UTC

josephcsible wrote: post #16

the-dude wrote: post #15

Clickbaity title. To this day makes it seem a really long time, but author is here and claims it is just a few days.

With these sorts of scam sites, a few days is plenty of time to take everyone's money and run.

It shouldn't be on the FP of HN, and it is not anymore.