This isn&#x27;t journalism though. This is someone buying something they think is almost certainly a scam with the assumption that either PayPal will underwrite the loss or they&#x27;ll be a millionaire. What should the author have done? Not buy it, obviously.<p>Frankly, given that a thorough fraud investigation would have revealed two separate attempts to gauge eBay&#x2F;PayPal&#x27;s refund policy followed by the purchase of an asset, followed by the claim, he&#x27;s lucky he hasn&#x27;t been accused of being complicit in the scam. A more on-the-ball protection team certainly would have raised that possibility and escalated it.