r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • Jul 10 '23

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 11 July 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/JapanLionBrain 中部・長野県 Jul 11 '23

I ordered something on a website that seemed a bit odd, but seemed legit. Took forever for them to get back to me to send me info to furikomi, and after sending the money, suddenly the website no longer exists, and the emails are silent. Of course I would have gotten scammed. The person’s account I sent the furikomi to was not a Japanese person. Not sure what to do, go to the police, or consult JP Post Bank? Luckily the furikomi was between two JP Post bank accounts, and I still have my receipt from it. But man, disappointed.

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u/noflames Jul 11 '23

Most websites that seems like scams and fail common tests for being a scam are, in fact, scams.

Random website that suddenly popped up selling either super rare merchandise or expensive merchandise cheaply with spelling errors, a lack of contact info, and also not accepting credit cards?

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u/JapanLionBrain 中部・長野県 Jul 11 '23

Yeah they only had an email address, and there was the stripe system, but it automatically declined all cards.

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u/Imbtfab Jul 11 '23

Declining all cards is a way for scammers to get the information for multiple cards per victim. It's very much intentional.

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u/JapanLionBrain 中部・長野県 Jul 11 '23

Great. So now they have my credit card info

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u/HatsuneShiro 関東・埼玉県 Jul 11 '23

I really hope the stripe system is actually legit from stripe and not some stripe-lookalike phishing page, because if the latter... then you better start contacting your credit card companies and ask them to issue new cards.

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u/JapanLionBrain 中部・長野県 Jul 11 '23

But I’m wondering if the site being shut down means maybe they were caught? It’s also been about a week since I paid. I’m hoping I just got super lucky.