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True you may have to pay a certain amount of "schoolfees" but after a while you will be able to sniff our the vast majority of fraudulent orders.
For large orders, you should insist on 100% T/T or use an escrow service
I live in Taiwan and most Taiwanese don't use their cards online - mainly due to lack of English. Also to do a chargeback in Taiwan requires you to first file a police report before the credit card company will accept your request. We are hardly third world as your computer or
half of it was probably made here. We have the tallest building in the world, the richest political party as well as some of the largest foreign reserves.
Fraudsters are mainly from:
Bosnia Bulgaria Croatia Egypt Indonesia Iran Iraq
Israel Romania Russia Pakistan Yugoslavia
anybody with half a brain would know not to sell anything to Nigeria
I'll revise that to:
Fraudsters are everywhere. There are more attempted frauds from Nigerian and Indonesia, but you could get frauds from Taiwan or the UK, or anywhere else in the world.