Reporter
Mei-Lin Chan
Reporter, online marketplaces and purchase fraud
Mei-Lin covers what happens when the shop is not a shop: marketplace listings, ticket resale, rental deposits and social-media storefronts that vanish after payment. She tracks how quickly platforms remove reported listings and holds them to what their own policies promise.
- Beat
- Marketplace listings, purchase scams, ticketing and rental deposits
- Based in
- Sheffield
- Years reporting
- 11
- Joined The Fraud Center
- February 2026
- Reports in
- English, Cantonese, Mandarin
Areas of expertise
- Purchase scams
- Online marketplaces
- Ticket fraud
- Platform policy
Training and background
- NCTJ Diploma in Journalism
- MA Investigative Journalism, University of Sheffield
How this journalist works
Mei-Lin timestamps every listing she reports on, reports it through the platform's own route, and records how long removal took. Platforms get 48 hours to respond before publication.
Published work
No published stories yet under this byline.