Whose Fault Is It? | Ramblings of an e-trader

Friday 22 December 2006

Whose Fault Is It?

Recently I went to eBay Forums an there's someone calling for eBay Malaysia to be closed down. I understand that he's angry as he was scammed not too long ago of quite a huge sum of money.

Whose fault is it, actually? Is it the scammer or the victim?

In our daily lives there are so many baddies around us, pretending to be good, and it is the same in the online world as well. How come we forget to take the necessary precautions online?

What I feel is that, yes, although the scammers are bad and shouldn't be there in the first place, we do not have control over them, it's a free world where they can also list their "products"

However, we do have control over ourselves. We decide if we want to buy something, if we want to make payment to this person and how much? These are the things that we are in control of and we should make use of our best judgment BEFORE we make the decision to buy or pass.

Therefore, I feel that the majority of the fault lies on the victims. Hopefully they will learn from such costly mistakes.

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