#lazada scam

This is actually very similar to the old trick about foreign lottery winning scams but has been developed to adapt to a localized target. With the popularity of e-commerce in the Philippines, more and more small-time or fly-by-night e-commerce operators (or merchants) are trying to scam (the local term is budol) unsuspecting customers. If the recipient is not around and somebody else in the same household accepts and pays for the delivery, then the scam is a success. Worst case -- if no one accepts, the cost of the scam will be the RTS (return to sender). We're starting a new series called #LazadaFinds (and #ShopeeFinds when the opportunity arises) where we purchase items or gadgets that have incredible deals or just utterly unbelievable and useless. A lot of people still fall for this kind of scams (see how they make money out of this here). In a recent text message of this kind, I thought I'd indulge the scammer and play along to see how much effort they'd put into this. That's 1 hour of time the scammer wasted for nothing -- an hour he could have used to really scam others. Read more in our articles including "Beware of this new modus by tele-scammers" and "#LazadaFinds: 10TB Samsung T5 SSD for Php965".