Google and you can often see previous company names as they change them once enough claims roll in and Paypal stop them using their services and start over.ħ. Great pictures of items at bargain prices that turn out to be tat.Ħ. if you click on contact the most you will get is webmail or an email address.Ĥ. The site will look as if its in your country (where they despatch goods from) but they will ask for returns to go back to China (returns depot) at a shipping cost often more than the item is worth.Ģ. The best thing is to not buy from them in the first place, to recognise them -ġ. However as they are in China (mostly) then its easy for them to just start over with a new name, so stopping them does not really do anything. They do stop bad companies from using Paypal when enough claims start rolling in. However that protection can never be a 100% coverall so you need to read it so you can risk assess your transactions. So they give some buyer and some seller protection. Paypal would not be able to check every individual seller / merchant / company in over 200 countries worldwide that adds paypal to their website to accept payments. Still waiting for my new, clean debit card.Web Sites or on Social Media ads easy to spot (once you know the below signs) so buyer beware. Now, I’m wondering how often and to what extent this kind of theft appears in, say, trading accounts associated with cards.Īlthough I was unaware that my credit union’s debit cards were essentially “watched over” by a card protection outfit, I’m now delighted to learn of it.Īnd I’m interested in finding out more about such businesses and whether they might be publicly traded or investable – considering what appears to be a phenomenon affecting a great number of users. It took a personal experience of the problem to alert me to the issue. He was able to recoup the money.Īpparently, this type of theft is going on quite a bit. Then, one of my sons told me, for the first time, about how $400 in purchases hit his card before he could shut it down. I was telling the guy behind the counter at the coffee shop about it and he told me his story about vacationing in Hawaii when suddenly the single debit card he’d been using was declined after a couple of unauthorized purchases – and his bank wanted to see him in person before issuing another. When I began to tell my family and friends about my experience with theft, I was struck by the number of others who’ve had similar experiences.
Green pieces of paper with drawings of dead Presidents on them, just like the old days.
I haven’t received the new debit card and have been relying on the use of checks (where they are still accepted) and, if you can believe it, cash. The next day I did that and the credit union person told me – after another identification routine – that they’d be sending me another card and, in the meantime, make sure to destroy the one that had been closed. The Company current operating status is struck off. The address of the Company's registered office is at the FOOK HAI BUILDING building. Then she said she was closing down the debit card so that it could never be used again and that I should call the credit union Tuesday (when they were open again) and have them send me another card. ACTIO IMPEX PTE LTD (the 'Company') is a Exempt Private Company Limited by Shares, incorporated on 19 April 1996 (Friday) in Singapore. May-25-2021 07:58 AM According to this post in the community Paypal is aware of the scams by Acto Pte Ltd, but continues to allow them to perpetuate their scams. “So, you’ve made all of those purchases, is that correct, sir?” Then she began asking me about purchases from days earlier at locations that I recognized: my coffee shop in Boulder, the grocery store I go to and a restaurant where I’d had lunch. “Uh, no, I’ve never been there nor ever made a purchase there.”
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