Letter from a Reader: Choose Your Online Sellers

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Dear Fashion Pulis.

I am Camille Chan, an online seller on Facebook. I just wanna share to your readers and spread the word as well that I recently found out a scammer who is posing to be me. The account is very private and you can only add it as a friend on Facebook. The stolen pictures are all in private settings and the scammer is very sneaky.

The first time I heard about this was in September 2011, when a certain shopper (has never bought from me) sent me a private message and asked if I am associated with this certain account. I asked her for a link but she could not provide it to me because the scammer blocked her already.

I tried searching for Regina Laput, the name that the shopper gave me, in google but nothing showed up. Last night, I tried to search for the gcash number that this lady was using and I found out that Regina Laput is included in the list of scammers for research and cross reference purposes.

I search for this poser's account everyday and I only found out about her when she mistakenly added a shopper who has bought from me before. This certain shopper was kind enough to send me the link. For the past few days I have been messaging shoppers who have been inquiring from the scammer's account.  Whenever the shopper who sent me the link sees someone inquiring, she immediately sends me his/her link so I can inform him/her that the account is a fake.

Lastly, I found out yesterday that the scammer does not go by the name of Regina Laput anymore. Her new account name is Pia Salamat.

Thanks you very much Fashion Pulis. This are all the pieces of information that I have gathered for the past 72 hours. I already spread the word thru Facebook regarding the seller's pages but unfortunately it is not enough since someone told me that some shoppers are still buying from that account.

Before any of you say that online shopping is not safe, I just wanna emphasize that you just have to be wise. If a seller does not have any feedback from at least 10 buyers, or if he/she does not update from time to time, chances are, he or she is a scammer.


Camille Chan
Owner of Cruella & Co