Security Notes

Please keep in mind that a sellers identity (especially that of private sellers) is not checked by chrono24.com.

Due to the increase in fraud-attempts during the last months please note the following security advice:

For Buyers

• Never ever pay for a watch via Western Union.
   
• Never pay money in advance to a seller offering transaction handling through an escrow-service by Royal Mail.
   
• Watch out for spoofed escrow-sites (sites or emails that look like DHL or TNT but are not the real deal)
   
• Do not buy from a seller acting under one of the following names: 'Yenal Bambetov', 'Dmitry Gordienko', 'Tamerlan Akhmadov' or 'Timura Panzhokov'
   
• Always check the phone-number given in the ad. Is it working? Is it forwarded to mobile phone? Is the person on the other end 'trustworthy'?
   
• Be careful with sellers using 'free' E-Mail accounts such as yahoo.com, live.com, aol.com
   
• If an offer sounds too good to be true: It might just not be true...

For Sellers

• Be careful with potential buyers that offer a personal handover of cash in Northern Italy (Milan) or Brussels (Belgium).
   
• Be careful if someone offers you more than the price you asked for.
   
• Be careful if the buyer asks you to manage the transaction through an obscure escrow-service. While there are reputable escrow companies, unfortunately most of the escrow-sites are faked.
   
• Be careful if the buyer wants to pay via cheque from a foreign bank. While your own bank might add the funds in your account at first, they will charge the funds back from you in case the cheque bounces at a later time.