Dangers strangers and the internet

You know there are a lot of dan­ger­ous things going on these days and its not hap­pen­ing on the local street cor­ner like it used to be and still is in some places.

There are some places where peo­ple are get­ting tak­en for their mon­ey and there is no sher­iff.

There is no one that will help these peo­ple that end up loos­ing often lots of mon­ey.  

You might think that you could go to the local police and com­plain about being a vic­tim of inter­net fraud, but in that you would be wrong.

Most local police sta­tions will stare at you blankly because they do not even know much about how the inter­net works.

Most do not even have a web­site,
(they have Face­book which is not the same thing at all)

Most of the time if you find your­self a vic­tim of fraud or you pur­chased some­thing and end­ed up loos­ing mon­ey or some oth­er equal­ly moral issue, then usu­al­ly your just out of luck…

But what about those web­sites that sell these bor­der­line prod­ucts that are often just wait­ing to take inno­cent peo­ples mon­ey?

As an exam­ple we found this web­site, JVZOO.COM

This com­pa­ny does not sell prod­ucts they sell ser­vices to those that sell prod­ucts, so they make mon­ey when sell­ers come to the mar­ket­place.

Ebay start­ed out much the same way, but they did some­thing unique they took respon­si­bly not because they want­ed to mind you…

They did it because legal­ly they were under pres­sure to (police up) the mar­ket­place which they were respon­si­ble for.

You see Ebay had this blan­ket state­ment basi­cal­ly say­ing hey were not respon­si­ble for what oth­er peo­ple sell on our plat­form, its not our prob­lem, were ter­ri­bly sor­ry you got defraud­ed, but were just the mid­dle­man here and so were not respon­si­ble for what oth­ers may do on our camp­ground.

So, think about it for a moment, you have a place where dig­i­tal com­merce is done on a dai­ly basis and you have a par­tic­i­pant in the sales process, who takes no respon­si­bly in say the dig­i­tal equiv­a­lent of a Pra­da hand­bag knock off being sold on its dig­i­tal plat­form.

So you see, they “think” they have no respon­si­bil­i­ty but in actu­al­ly like EBay, they do have a duty to pro­tect mem­bers of the mar­ket­place from a prod­uct that they know is ques­tion­able.

If some­one is sell­ing a Prad­da, (fake or stolen) prod­uct, (dig­i­tal in this case) then it is the duty of the sell­er or the mar­ket­place to take action not just sit there and watch as they make mon­ey while they know peo­ple are get­ting ripped off.

Now that is not only a moral dilem­ma but it is one that demands change by con­gress and that is some­thing that must be done for too long peo­ple have oper­at­ed like the days of the wild wild west and that is some­thing that must change.

Ebay saw the light and began a fraud pro­gram where users could report sell­ers that were doing ques­tion­able things, (think of it as the ebay police)

It worked and grad­u­al­ly what was a real­ly seri­ous Pub­lic Rela­tions prob­lem began to get bet­ter, it was a chal­lenge but Ebay man­aged to reduce the num­ber of fraud­u­lent auc­tions until the sell­ing plat­form before one of the most suc­cess­ful online auc­tion plat­form of its time.

Its about doing the right thing if you walk by on the street and see a man or a woman lay­ing injured in the street do you just walk by and do noth­ing?

Some do, but in the end its always about who steps up and does the right thing and that is some­thing we need more of online.

If you see some­thing wrong say some­thing right, I mean there are a lot of these fly by night com­pa­nies that inten­tion­al­ly seek to rob peo­ple and that is some­thing that should be fixed.