This Website Says It Has Coronavirus Masks — But It’s A Scam
— and good samaritans have been pitching in. But some looking to help are getting duped.of coronavirus-related fraud, the majority of which relate to online shopping scams where people have ordered protective face masks, hand sanitizer, and other products, which have never arrived. The watchdog estimates the total losses reach nearly £1m .
Action Fraud confirmed to BuzzFeed News that it has received a complaint about protectivemaskdirect.com. The watchdog said it did not pass along the complaint to the police because the"person reporting had not suffered a financial loss," but that it was seeking"a suspension of the site."A wide range of people have been fooled by the scam.
Roberto Carloni owns a souvenir shop in central Rome. When the pandemic forced him to shut down, he started trying to source masks for hospitals near Lake Como, near the epicenter of northern Italy's epidemic, he told BuzzFeed News. The sales representative calling himself Mark Andrew emailed Carloni pictures of warehouses full of boxes with high-quality N95 masks. “These are branded masks from the best manufacturer in the world,” Andrew wrote, “the best in combating the Covid 19 virus.
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