MY NEW ONLINE SCAMMING METHOD
okay, so recently I accidentally discovered a new way to scam online stores and y’all wanted me to make a post about it. This may already be a method that people use but I haven’t seen anything about it on liftblr so I’d thought I’d go ahead and share.
DISCLAIMER: I don’t know if this works for multiple companies or different banks or whatever, but this worked for me. Please try this firstly with a small item/necessity so that you don’t spend lots of money and then it doesn’t work :)
ALSO MAKE SURE YOU DON’T HAVE ANY MONEY IN YOUR PAYPAL BALANCE AS WHEN YOU ORDER YOUR ITEMS IT WILL USE THAT AND IT WON’T WORK BASICALLY
• a debit card & bank account
1. CREATE YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT
You must have Paypal for this method to work. I suggest making a new account with an email that’s isn’t your personal account as you don’t want to get sussed and then your personal paypal is fucked. I’ve done various scammy things on my personal paypal and then it’s been restricted and it’s shit. So I suggest avoiding this.
2. CONNECT YOUR DEBIT CARD AND BANK
You can get a new debit card and bank (I used a current account if that’s helpful) if you don’t want your personal accounts getting muddled with scamming, but I used my personal account because I wasn’t intending on scamming that order. Make sure your bank account is your primary method of payment.
You. Must. Use. Paypal. or the scam won’t work. If the company doesn’t use paypal then unfortunately you can’t do this. Remember to keep a note of how long shipping takes.
You should get an email like this in your inbox:
It should say “this is not a charge”, because the company has not yet processed your payment as you’ve used Paypal. For me, it took ASOS 7 days to process my payment, 2 days AFTER the products have arrived.
5. WAIT UNTIL YOUR ORDER HAS SHIPPED
Now this is the complicated bit. My bank may be different to yours so you may have to google how to do this. If you google “how to remove a direct debit [your bank]” it should come up. You can do this online or on the app, but I personally used the app.
Firstly go onto your bank statement and click the icon in the top corner:
Now select direct debits:
There should be one that’s says Paypal. You’re going to want to cancel the direct debit. This means that Paypal can not withdraw money from your account.
In the next day or two you should get emails from Paypal saying that your bank declined the transfer. It will also say that it will try to remove the funds from your debit card as it’s your secondary method of payment, but because your card and bank should be connected that won’t work either.
If you’ve followed all the steps your items should have arrived for free :)
Personally, I waited until after my items had arrived until I disconnected my bank and paypal, but I guess it depends on the company. I can 100% confirm this works for ASOS but I haven’t tried it with other companies so it may not work.
tl;dr - pay for an item through paypal, stop your direct debits once item has been shipped and the payment won’t go through