Shipping fraud

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Shipping fraud or order fraud , criminological technical term trade credit fraud , is a form of fraud in online trading in which the perpetrator orders goods with the intent not to pay for them after receipt. The aim is to receive the seller's goods without doing anything in return.

Often wrong names are given and the sent packages are accepted with a fictitious signature . The sender cannot collect the claim because the name of the debtor is wrong, he usually does not live at the address given and investigations into the mass business come to nothing. The mail order company and ultimately all of the mail order company's customers are damaged , as the loss must be included in the price calculation .

The gang-like form of inspection is shock fraud .

In so-called Nigeria fraud , the perpetrators act from abroad. Vendors at auction houses (e.g. eBay ) are cheated of their goods. The bidder comes from Nigeria or other countries, such as Great Britain or the Netherlands, to which the goods are to be sent. Possible indications of suspected fraud are:

  1. The bidder accepts maximum prices and bids above the average price level.
  2. He pushes for timely dispatch.
  3. Payment by bank transfer, certified check, or escrow account is promised. Falsified confirmations are presented, e.g. B. from Western Union with texts like " wire transfer confirmed ". Fake communications from BidPay.com and PayPal are also known.

If the goods are not paid for and sent without checking the recipient's address beforehand, they are usually lost, as the Nigerian post office often does not respond to complaints.

In the case of fraudulent goods, on the other hand, the perpetrator promises to deliver goods that he either does not provide at all or of poor quality. The aim is to get the buyer's payment without paying anything in return. Goods fraud is also committed with the involvement of so-called financial agents , to whose account the purchase price is initially to be paid.

The police crime statistics for 2015 recorded a total of over 730,000 cases of goods and commercial credit fraud, with an average clearance rate of 76%.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albrecht Popken: Commercial Credit Fraud - What is Commercial Credit Fraud? November 12, 2012
  2. ^ Mail order: Cheating made easy, Der Spiegel , July 26, 2004
  3. ^ Order fraud website of the Berlin police, accessed on April 18, 2017
  4. ↑ Christian Solmecke: E-Commerce: Der Warenfrug - What you can do in an emergency August 16, 2013
  5. ↑ Finanzagenten Police crime prevention of the states and the federal government, accessed on June 13, 2017
  6. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior : Police crime statistics 2015 . Version: May 2016, p. 92. Criminal offense codes 511000, 511200, 511279 and 511300