The Slippery Slope of Selling Assets Online
halfway across the country who is interested in that gold and diamond encrusted necklace you’ve listed for ,000. Perhaps you wanted to see what interest there might be for it, if the price was right, and then decide. Soon after your ad is placed, you receive inquiries about it. Then, amazingly, you get a confirmation from PayPal, for example, that someone placed the money in escrow and will await shipping confirmation before releasing funds.
Immediately you think about the vacation you can finally take with that money, or the bills that you could eliminate. It sounds too good to be true from your past experiences, but it’s PayPal, one of the most trusted names on the Internet.
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What is important to note is that PayPal may be the most trusted name in online payments, but con-artists and other criminal enterprises also know this. On
