Ebay Scammers

[Jez_Gafys]

Some scammers on ebay really must think that there are a lot of retarded ppl out there. Here is a mail I just got when selling my Sony P900 Phone


"Hello, I am Dr Larry David from UK.I am the Research manager of an Institute of Tropical Agriculture.I went through your advert on ebay and I really want to purchase this Phone of yours for our member that recently travelled to abroad for an Agricultural Research Programme. So,tell me the present conditions of this Phone and we will offer you £300.00 for the payment and shipping of this Phone and we can't wait till bid ends coos our member really needed this Phone for communication purpose and this Phone is to be shipped directly from you to our member address via UPS EXPRESS. Lastly,for the payment processes,give me your full name,address,email address and phone number so that I can process your money through western union BidPay Payment.Get to me quickly and reply me directly from your email address to (larrydavid3@radio.fm) and pals include this message in your reply. Nice doing business with you. Thanks for your anticipated co-operation."

[Neon]

lol, cant be arsed with ebay any more its way to riddeled with crap these days, shame :-/

[andyf]

Nah there's some good stuff on there :D

I got a whopper of a PayPal fraud email the other day. Blatantly given away by hovering over the link and seeing http://notpaypal.com/paypal.com/auth.php or something far too obvious, but the actual wording, images and HTML was spot on.

And if you DID follow it through, the fact they ask you to confirm your cards' ATM 4-digit PIN should definitely make you stop in your tracks. Should.

[zhardoum]

it might help the scammers cause if they actually used english as its spoken in england, rather than the atypical .."Hi, i represent mr abdu babu, who recently was leader of the government of.."

God help us if scammers actually said something like, hi i want to buy your phone as a present, but im in a rush, can you I contact you seperately to arrange this?

[maxrealism]

scammers piss me off... what annoys me even more is the gimps who sell MS Office and other illegal warez on ebay.. and ebay don't give a crap about it. They're not even trying to clamp down on the gits.. probably because they're happy to take the money on the bids and look the other way.

Still, I have had a couple of good buys on ebay lately too.

[Matt]

Tell them thats fine then get them to organise the delivery and pay for it.

When the delivery people come put about 5 or 6 bricks in a box and parcel tape it up.

[CragFrag]

Originally posted by maxrealism
scammers piss me off... what annoys me even more is the gimps who sell MS Office and other illegal warez on ebay.. and ebay don't give a crap about it. They're not even trying to clamp down on the gits.. probably because they're happy to take the money on the bids and look the other way.

Still, I have had a couple of good buys on ebay lately too.

You cant expect them to check all 100,000 items on Ebay can you? I mean that would take WEEKS to find all things remotly dodgy on it. Think of it like would you like to spend your work hours trawling through 1000s of pages looking for cracked files?

[TelexStar]

Originally posted by maxrealism
They're not even trying to clamp down on the gits..

Sounds like a very effective way to run a business to me.

They ONLY provide a forum for people to buy and sell. Leaving all the complicated issues of fraud etc to the people using the service.

Can't really knock that for a business model.