Facebook Ads Scam

[canadian-user]

Hello All,

Just wanted to put it out there and also wanted to bring it to @Paypal's attention is that these days lots and lots of people are scamming users by using the Facebook Ads, at a first glance most of these websites look legit and you will end up buying the product.

I got scammed buying the following items:

1. Kids folding bike -  they end up sending me the Rubix cube 

2. Decorative piece with the fish tank

3. Decorative piece with indoor plant stand

4. Baby fence -  cheap doll toy

5. Additional toys for baby fence 

So the way they will scam is that they will send you some cheap items like which will cost a few cents and they will also charge you shipping etc.

So when you ask Paypal to look into that then they will provide a tracking number so now Paypal will have a hard time explaining what was delivered as a tracking number can only show an item was delivered but it never tells what was delivered.

I really hope that PayPal should and must ask the vendor to include the full detail of a tracking item like the dimensions of the package and especially the weight of the package which will clearly show if the item that was bought originally was sent or not.

Let me know if you were scammed the same way, I noticed that this kind of fake stores showed up during this COVID times as most of us was shopping online, so far I'm glad that PayPal has always addressed my concerns and taught a good lesson to the scammers.

Let's bring this issue to the attention of PayPal so that the other who were scammed can get help from PayPal easily.

Thanks,

Canadian User

[UxbridgeAlan]

Sorry you went through this. I had the same experience. I ordered a lamp and received a cheap wooden toy.  $38 down the tubes, and PayPal tried to resolve it by telling me I had to send the toy back when I had no idea that was supposed to be my lamp!  I didn't save the packaging. The toy was so ridiculous I had no idea where it had come from or why I'd received it. But like what you got, it was simply a cheap trinket with no value. I would have tossed it in the trash if my wife hadn't been so creeped out by it .. so I started using it to tease her ... hiding it under her pillow or in her sock drawer!  At any rate, it was SO COMPLETLEY DIFFERENT from anything I'd ever ordered I never even thought this was the $38 "lamp" I had ordered. I tossed the packaging, and now to get reimbursed for it PayPal says I have to send back the piece of junk to China. It's mail fraud. In fact, the only way I figured out this cheap toy was what I'd paid $38 for was when the scammer vendor in China sent proof that they'd sent a package through the USPS.  I looked at the tracking number, and it was listed as a "light weight" package (something like 2 oz) so it could not possibly have been the lamp. I am tempted to bring this to the USPS because it's completely illegal. FAcebook obviously does not do any checking into the vendors they allow to advertise on their site. PayPal does not want to be responsible. If Facebook can't monitor its ads, PayPal should go after them, not **bleep** people like me who use this service all the time. Anyway, I am sorry you had this issue. I sympathisize because the same thing happened to me. I am still trying to dispute it. Paypal should tell these scammers that their customers ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE for sending junk back to them in China while they were trying to scam us. It should be their loss. They know we won't spend more $$ to send junk to China, so they laugh all the way to the bank. It is infuriating.