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kryten wrote:
Russ
Yep, that's exactly how it works. I've played a few of these scammers along for amusement. The usual story is that the car is out of the country, but the 'don't touch this with a barge pole clue' is WESTERN UNION money transfer. The other ploy is to ask for a deposit to secure the car - a few hundred quid is easy money and then they vanish. There areprobably many hundreds of these scams every day across allEbay items, if they get lucky once in a while it's worth their effort I suppose. A note of caution, if you plan tohave a bit of fun with them, generate a yahoo or hotmail email address using a false ID (as they do) rather than reveal your real email address to these lowlife e-criminals. If you're a bit techy, when they respond to your email, you can use a webtool totrace their IP address which is unique to an individual PC - you'll see that several of them (although different email addresses) are from the same source, but the more sophisticated scammers use several different PCs or operate from internet cafes etc.
kryten wrote:
You send him your name, address and email etc, supposedly to "start the official procedure through ebay"as he says in the reply and then he sends you home made ebay-esque pages to make it look like you've organisedthepurchasethrough ebay - they will send you a pro-forma invoice, again supposedly from ebay requiring you to wire money through Western Union or do an escrow - but he is the escrow holder, not the 3rd party it's supposed to be.
"ebay" then tells you when and where to pick the car up (or in fact not) - it's all down to being unwary, and trusting that it is really ebay that have arranged it - I can only see it working with ebay virgins......
Russ
"ebay" then tells you when and where to pick the car up (or in fact not) - it's all down to being unwary, and trusting that it is really ebay that have arranged it - I can only see it working with ebay virgins......
Russ
Yep, that's exactly how it works. I've played a few of these scammers along for amusement. The usual story is that the car is out of the country, but the 'don't touch this with a barge pole clue' is WESTERN UNION money transfer. The other ploy is to ask for a deposit to secure the car - a few hundred quid is easy money and then they vanish. There areprobably many hundreds of these scams every day across allEbay items, if they get lucky once in a while it's worth their effort I suppose. A note of caution, if you plan tohave a bit of fun with them, generate a yahoo or hotmail email address using a false ID (as they do) rather than reveal your real email address to these lowlife e-criminals. If you're a bit techy, when they respond to your email, you can use a webtool totrace their IP address which is unique to an individual PC - you'll see that several of them (although different email addresses) are from the same source, but the more sophisticated scammers use several different PCs or operate from internet cafes etc.
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