Ebay warning - very boaty

[Colin_S]

There's a guy hijacking accounts and offering new Raymarine C120 units at £300 on one day listings. A couple of days ago there was a similar listing at 500 Euros. Just reported latest offerings to ebay but he seems to be popping up daily under different accounts.
Most of us are aware of these scams but figured I'd post to warn any newcomers to the forum.

As an aside he's also 'selling' cheap Alienware' laptops. I've emailed him asking for a deal on 10 /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Steve Clayton]

eBay is rife with fraud sales and scammers. If you want to email eBay's head honcho in charge of fraud direct about your findings then his public email address is griff@ebay.com

The UK March PC Format magazine contains a 3 page spread on eBay fraud titled "Going, going, gone...". It basically questions how safe it really is and looks at the types of scams now occurring.

 

[ShipsWoofy]

I will not buy without paypal now.

A few months back I actually got a refund from paypal as I did not hear anything from the 'company' for three weeks, I had kept all my emails and was able to show that the given telephone number was a dead line.

Paypal took 4 days and returned in my favour dropping the £30 back into my account. Had I paid by cheque or using the companies online charging I would have been out by £30.

This was not Ebay, paypal is available to non ebay traders as well, but I thought I would mention it as pp is pretty much Ebay exclusive.

 

[aitchw]

Ebay owns PayPal but is growing as a payment option throughout the net. It is very easy to integrate PayPal into your website and even provides a shopping cart. Set it up on my wife's site very quickly.

 

[Colin_S]

Interesting...........

Few details removed but here's a couple of emails........ /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif


Hi John

What a coincidence, as I only live 10 minutes from Thamesmead in Bexleyheath. I'm at home all day tomorrow and can pop down to see you and have a look at the laptops. Let me know what time is convenient and give me your phone number so I can give you a call when I'm on my way.

Regards Colin


----- Original Message -----
From: "John xxxxx" <xxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com>
To: <xxxxxxcolin@hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:50 PM
Subject: RE: Alienware notebooks


> Hello,
>
> I have 10 units.
> I have a little business but i am not a shop and I have (for the moment) the
> privilege to buy these items for low cost so that you have the opportunity
> to purchase them.
> The units are brand new, factory sealed, including all accessories. They
> have 1 year international
> warranty.If you are interested and would like to purchase I await your order
> very soon for my best
> price of only GBP 3000 FOR 10 UNITS.Remember that the minimum order is for 2
> UNITS.This price
> includes the shipping and handling fees. For payment I accept Western Union
> Money Transfer and I
> will ship you the package via FedEx priority service in 1 Day, please go to
> www.westernunion.com
> insert you address at FIND A LOCAL AGENT. You will see there are a lot of
> western union agencies
> near you.
> Visit a Western Union office and make payment to my name and address, after
> you have made payment the folks from Western Union will give you a MTCN#
> (Money Transfer Control Number), please email me this number and I will
> check on Western Union's web page. If everything is fine I will ship right
> away with FedEx priority service and email you the tracking number. After
> you receive the package you need to email me that everything is okay so I
> may pick up the payment.
> My payment information is:
>
> FULL NAME: John xxxxx
> ADDRESS: xxxxxxxClose,Thamesmead
> POST CODE: SE28 xxx
> CITY: London
> COUNTRY: United Kingdom
>
>
> Please remember to email me with your shipping address.
>
> Thanks
> Regards!
>
>
>>From: "Colin" <xxxxxcolin@hotmail.com>
>>To: <xxxxxxxxx@HOTMAIL.COM>
>>Subject: Alienware notebooks
>>Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:35:53 -0000
>>
>>Hi
>>
>>How many notebooks do you have. I am looking to buy a minimum of 10 for my
>>staff.
>>
>>Let me know ASAP as I am about to place an order with Dell
>>
>>Colin
>

 

[Steve Clayton]

Re: Interesting...........

eBay banned requesting payment by Western Union in mid-January 2006 but their enforcement of the new policy is totally non-effective. It would be so easy to implement but eBay take their usual stance of burying their head in the sand. They totally ignore what should be their duty of care to peeps using their site (using the argument that they are only facillitating the sale and purchase of items).

I've had an email from Griff (hope he will be reading this) saying it is more effective to advise their "security centre" of problems rather than him.

If you want to report what you think might be fraud then you are better off reporting it to fraudtracking.com as they pass information on to eBay and keep records, and publish their findings; whereas eBay would rather not have people know the extent of fraud, and actually deny the volume of fraud taking place on eBay.

If you search (you will have to be quick) eBay for Raymarine 120 then the 6 items requesting payment in Aus dollars are scammers. One of these is item no 4444187254

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

Re: Interesting...........

Very simple.

If anyone ever requests payment for anything by Western Union assume a scam and move on.

This is apparently becoming an issue for Western Union as well, they don't like being seen as a scammers den.