Mighty Citizen

Are you seller ? sold product for $500 and got chargebacked ? you must understand that you will be at loss. Here are few ideas of how to protect yourself from fraudulent orders.

• Never Give Instant Download or access or ship immediately.

• Check if the Transaction Ip address location matches with the credit card statement address location.you can use whois.sc just type whois.sc/ipaddresshere. (Geolocation)
• Telephone and ask the buyer for transaction verification. Use Skype it costs you pennies for international voice calls.
• If using paypal never accecpt payments from un-verified buyers.
• Ask the buyers to fax any ID proofs for verification.
• Possibly ask the buyer to send money via Bank Transfer or Cheque.
• Avoid Orders from free email accounts like gmail,yahoo or msn
• Deny orders from “High Risk Countries” According to a ClearCommerce survey, the top 12 international sources for online fraud are Ukraine, Indonesia, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Egypt, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Israel.
• Deny orders from proxy ip address.
• Check whether the phone number is valid and located within the correct ZIP code.

This could seriously help in preventing fraudulent orders . Happy Selling

ehh having photographs on your profile posed up as drinking or with your boyfriend or girlsfriend , dating,adulting around ? hmmm yea there are chances that it could get abused. there are few cases reported already in india. A guy who is doing Bachelor of Management Studies created his classmates profile and uploaded images. The images were manupliated and were offensive !…another case which was flashed in CNN IBN few days back stating that a Girl photos were misused who was about to get married. so just think twice before uploading images to your album.

Here are few tips before orkuting or in any social networking sites.

• Dont upload any of your Photographs to your profile.
• If your friends do have your photos on their profile better ask them to remove it.
• Dont give out your email id publicly in your profile.
• Dont give up your mobile or telephone numbers in public.
• Dont Click on any unwanted urls posted on your scrape bookz. (Virus Might be loaded to your computer)
• Ignore anonymous or unwanted “Hi” or “Your are looking good. can i be your friend ? ” scrapes.
• If you are parents and your kids are in orkut or myspace or other social networking sites then watch your kids scrape book. Social Networking sites are also used for dating & adulting. have an eye on their activities. There are high probablity that your child will be abused. Its recommended that you delete your Kids Account
• Never give out your passwords to your friends. He/She might sneak in and post unwanted messages.
• Also Report an Profile if they are abusing you.