Scam website with my personal info published

[22tt]

Anyone had a scam website using your personal information to help perpetuate the scam. The scam site only accepts Paypal meaning the credit card companies have figured it a scam. If PayPal would stop accepting payments the scammers couldn't steal people's money. And they are - big time. I know because they are calling the customer service number on the website and it is my personal cell phone

[kernowlass]

@22tt 

Chinese Web Sites or on Social Media ads easy to spot (once you know the below signs) so buyer beware.

Paypal would not be able to check every individual seller / merchant / company in over 200 countries worldwide that adds paypal to their website to accept payments.

So they give you 'some' buyer protection but the onus is on you to risk assess your transactions.

They do stop bad companies from using Paypal when enough claims start rolling in.
However as they are in China (mostly) then its easy for them to just start over with a new name, so stopping them does not really do anything.

The best thing is to not buy from them in the first place, to recognise them -

1. No return address on the returns policy. The site will look as if its in your country (where they despatch goods from) but they will ask for returns to go back to China (returns depot) at a shipping cost often more than the item is worth.
2. No contact telephone number. if you click on contact the most you will get is webmail or an email address.
3. Rarely company address information.
4. Great pictures of items at bargain prices that turn out to be tat.
5. Fake reviews.
6. Google and you can often see previous company names as they change them once enough claims roll in and Paypal stop them using their services and start over.
7. Send fake tracking numbers to win item non receipt of item claims.

[22tt]

Thanks for the reply but my question wasn't about me being scammed it was that the people who have been scammed are calling me because that's the name, address and phone number for all enquiries. You say it's easy to spot a scam site and I do agree with you BUT I know for a fact hundreds upon hundreds of people have been scammed by this website and all resurrections of it. I have the phone logs as proof. PayPal need to be more proactive over this. And as for protection by PayPal you know and I know that these chinese scammers now send a 50 cent piece of crap to you that costs them pennies to ship and when you file a claim they show PayPal the shipping "proof" and PayPal deny your claim. Again I know this for a fact and so does Paypal because it happened to me. I promise you PayPal are going to get hundreds of claims once the person scammed realizes it. BTW I do tell anyone who calls they have been scammed and to get their claim in NOW as it may help down the line. Another thing you should be aware of is that these Chinese scammers are paying Google to display their paid graphic and at the very top of the search results page and it's taken me almost three weeks for them to take the ads down. If I'm getting over 100 calls a day let's assume that 500 people don't call me, now multiply that by 21 and that's an estimate of how many people got scammed while Google sat on the information and did nothing. I had no idea how powerful Google shopping ads were but now I'm a believer. China are stealing from the American economy with the help of PayPal, Google and another silicon valley giant CloudFlare. It's a national scandal but no one wants to hear about it. Rant over (for now) lol