Algeria: e-commerce scams and crimes


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LETTER FROM ALGIERS. The rise of e-commerce is accompanied by indelicate attitudes on the part of certain players, making transactions on the Net dangerous.





By our correspondent in Algiers, Adlene Meddi

With the barrier gestures due to Covid-19, online sales have entered a boom period which has been accompanied by increased risks of scams in Algeria.
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Tout success has a downside, if not worse, something perverse. This is confirmed by the boom in e-commerce in Algeria, especially since the latest confinements caused by the covid-19 pandemic. Stuck at home, Algerians have turned en masse to this new commercial space that is the Internet, whether on successful e-commerce platforms, such as Jumia or the Algerian star Ouedkniss (one of the most visited sites in Algeria after Google and YouTube), or on the Facebook Marketplace, where you can find cars, furniture, sex toys, antiques, plants, clothes, household appliances, etc.

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