Zaap
Diamond Member
Again: details. Notice those sites have credit card logos all over them. I doubt they care much which way they scam you.but if the person is paying through paypal, how is their id or any of their personal info revealed to them? these guys say they prefer paypal, and if they do credit card fraud its a lot more serious than just selling CD keys at a HUGE profit. they don't pay anything for the keys, so in effect they're getting $25 per key which is ALOT of money in china.
You first have to enter a whole slew of personal info before you get to any pay pal link (you do realize that entering ANY information on a web form directly on a site is sending the info to the site owner, don't you?) and who even knows if it actually links to a legit paypal, or just another site form to extract more info from you? (I'm certainly not going to enter any info on such a bogus site to find out. You shouldn't either.)
Clearly you had suspicions yourself about these sites or I'm guessing you wouldn't have asked about this here. Any number of things scream bogus, but if keywords like 'crack' and 'keygen' don't give you a clue about the legitimacy of the actual serials they're trying to sell, then I don't know what would.
I'd only ever buy an OS or license from a known-legit/trusted seller like Newegg, Amazon, etc. Buying it anywhere else, and certainly from this type of bogus place is just asking for a rip off.