These FAKE Ebay Messages get funnier very day :)
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wirelesshut( 79131)
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Location: TX, United States
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Hey Mister,
What's happening with our deal?
I sent you the product via DAS and I'm still waiting your payment!!!!!
Please pay for the item or I'll repport you to eBay and the FBI!
I wait your reply asap.
Regards
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wirelesshut( 79131)
Positive feedback: 98.7%
Member since: Sep-22-00
Location: TX, United States
Registered on: www.ebay.com
Hey Mister,
What's happening with our deal?
I sent you the product via DAS and I'm still waiting your payment!!!!!
Please pay for the item or I'll repport you to eBay and the FBI!
I wait your reply asap.
Regards
Coin Collector, Chicken Owner, Licensed Tax Preparer & Insurance Broker/Agent.
San Diego, CA
San Diego, CA
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<< <i>That's a good one but you have mischaracterized it. It is a scammer e-mail, not an ebay message. Ebay bashers (and you may not be one, I don't know) love to blame ebay for all the scammers out there. Given the number of transactions ebay does there is actually a lower percentage of scam attempts there than in the brick and mortar world. Because the internet makes them easier to publicize, it is easy to get a mistaken idea that it is just the opposite. --jerry >>
It's not the blaimg Ebay part..it is their lack of action on ways to prevent , identify fraud ..look at the phony dollars coming from China ... look right now on Ebay their are 2 phony auctions for PCGS 3pc 70s 2006 AGE going for 2,900.00.... ho ho
Scammers have zeroed in on Ebay customers because there is easily money to be made from ripping off bidders and sellers .
For all the $$$ BILLIONS that EBAY has made , they should do better
<< <i>For all the $$$ BILLIONS that EBAY has made , they should do better >>
OK, bright boy: what would you have them do for phishes like this? Keep in mind that the email has most likely been routed through an anonymizing service in some foreign country, and is pretty much untraceable.
It doesn't matter how many billions they have -- the bottom line is that there's not a whole lot that can be done about this sort of thing, short of revamping the entire Internet mail protocols. Scammers prey on the greedy and the stupid, and as long as such people exist in our world, scammers will thrive, regardless of what eBay or anyone else tries to do.
San Diego, CA
-Mark Twain
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<< <i>That's a good one but you have mischaracterized it. It is a scammer e-mail, not an ebay message. Ebay bashers (and you may not be one, I don't know) love to blame ebay for all the scammers out there. Given the number of transactions ebay does there is actually a lower percentage of scam attempts there than in the brick and mortar world. Because the internet makes them easier to publicize, it is easy to get a mistaken idea that it is just the opposite. --jerry >>
It's not the blaimg Ebay part..it is their lack of action on ways to prevent , identify fraud ..look at the phony dollars coming from China ... look right now on Ebay their are 2 phony auctions for PCGS 3pc 70s 2006 AGE going for 2,900.00.... ho ho Scammers have zeroed in on Ebay customers because there is easily money to be made from ripping off bidders and sellers . For all the $$$ BILLIONS that EBAY has made , they should do better >>
I still politely disagree with you. This isn't the ebay business model. Does ebay have experts in everything they sell? call them up and ask to speak to the garbage disposal expert. So don't hold your breath for them to hire a numismatist to look for phony coins. Instead, ebay is based on trust and feedback between buyers and sellers. The buyers point these things out and then ebay has to do a little due diligence (otherwise if I were pissed at you I could report all your auctions as phony) and they take action. The system seems to be working pretty well as it is.
I have never seen one of these fake coin or stolen image scams go through in the coin world. I have heard of them going through in motorcycles. That was the fake escrow scam where the motorcycle is now in sweden but they work for UPS and can ship it free if you'll just put the money in escrow you can inpsect the motorcycle when you get it....money goes directly into a numbered offshore account that even the feds can't track.
--Jerry
<< <i> anonymizing >>
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I like it.
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi,
I`m very interested for buy this item , is new ?? or used ??!! Please let me know asap ! , <SPAN class=SpellE>
Thank You !</SPAN>
<SPAN class=SpellE>
This is to the e-mail address associated with my old ebay address that I don't use anymore because of the divorce. I list this e-mail address in my current auctions so he may have lifted the e-mail address there. There is a link to the item just like in an ebay e-mail but when you click on it you are asked to log in. Looking at the URL, it doesn't have ebay in it anywhere. I forwarded the e-mail to spoof@ebay.com. If I had logged it, this would have given the artist my password and my account would have been hijacked. Actually he probably targeted my old account because it has no activity lately.
I know this is old but just thought I'd go through it once for ebay newbies out there.
--Jerry</SPAN></SPAN>
I think this criminal scammer from Nigeria or some former Soviet Union country pulled this line from a few American TV sitcoms shown in their country. - LOL
Report it to "spoof@ebay.com" and e-bay will take care of it! Don't EVER respond to these e-mails!!
All The Best granpagraf
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