Well, I am feeling pretty foolish as I have also been duped by these scam artists. Thank God I didn't splurge and order the shoes I really wanted. You know, there will always be criminals out there waiting to perpetrate a fraud on unsuspecting victims, I just never thought that PayPal would be complicit in criminal fraud. What is worse is that, because PayPal's name is on this fraudulent site, it gives potential customers a false sense of security in conducting business with this "company". The fact that PayPal continues to do business with a client they now know, or should know, to be fraudulent is, in and of itself, a crime. Furthermore, if I am understanding this correctly, PayPal will only refund what they can get out of the client which will be approximately 0. I think I am probably better off going through my credit card company and letting them fight with PayPal. As for PayPal, I plan to avoid it at all costs going forward now that I know that they can't even be trusted to run a quick check on their clients when they become clients to ensure that at least the most obvious scamers are not using PayPal services and that they continue to do business and process business for these scammers even after being alerted to the fraud.
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