How Do You Buy And Sell Safely Online?
• After receiving payment via any method, you must authenticate the sending party to ensure that they authorize the transaction and they are whom they claim to be. • Ask for name, telephone, and address. • Use an online telephone directory such as 411.com and view their name and address. This information should match what you were provided with. • Call them, whether the information matches or not, this allows you to confirm the order. A lot of online fraud is caused by friends or family, so be sure to ask for the name that appears on the payment statement or invoice. Identify the nature of the transaction and explain that you want to make sure that this is theirs. They will say yes or no. • If they did not have a listing in the phone book, then you will want to verify their identity and whereabouts with another method. Although slow, you can simply send them a letter with a code in it and request them to email you the code. This confirms their living address. • Living address and ID ca
