Posting an ad on popular online marketplaces can be as easy as its made to sound, but as it is with many things virtual, there’s a risk of paying for things that don’t exist. Or selling to people who haven’t paid.
The popular mudah.my has, since 2012, picked out hundreds of thousands of users for fraud and misuse of the eight-year-old website, Bernama reports.
Almost 500,000 users have been blocked since the website began operations in Nov 2007.
According to its corporate communications chief Chung Tsung Shen both sellers and buyers were guilty of fraud, particularly in transactions involving vehicles and electronic products.
“The buyer cheats the seller by falsifying the payment receipt; the seller uses the name of another person’s company to sell non-existent products,” he was quoted as saying.
