Scam Alert: Facebook/Paypal Enabling Bait and Switch Chinese Scam
If you are thinking of buying from Facebook ads, or paying Chinese companies with PAYPAL, you NEED to read this.
Have you ordered something via a Facebook ad and received something different than what you ordered — an item with no value at all. And if you paid for it via PAYPAL you are probably up the creek without a paddle.
Here’s the scoop. Chinese companies (often owned by the same parent company, ouyiec.com) buy ads for popular products, pretending to sell them at crazy discount prices. The landing pages are slick, and professional looking, as are the ads.
HOWEVER, when you receive your “order” it will contain some worthless item worth pennies.
For example, I ordered a Snow Joe electric snowthrower which was advertised as shipping from the USA (it wasn’t). When my package finally arrived, it contained…well, here’s a picture.
If you are sharp, you’d quickly realize that what they sent (from China, BTW) doesn’t resemble a snow throwing device, although it is somewhat amusing to picture…
