dave g wrote: > > Just want to mention a scam I haven't seen before. I bid on an item and > lost. I was contacted via ebay by a member who has 100% feedback over > about 5 years, in this case. The member offered me a second chance on > the item, saying the winner of the bid didn't come through. In this > particular case I had in fact already spoken with the real seller of the > item, and he lives in England. I noticed the other member who contacted > me is in the US, has nothing to do with cameras and asked me to reply to > the one I'd already written to to reach the real seller directly. > However, the whole thing looked quite legitimate as it went through > ebay's mail system. In any event, I sent a generic reply from an email > address that can't be traced to me (can't be too careful) and said "yes, > i'd love to buy the item" without mentioning item number or name. The > scammer in the first instance was interested in obtaining my name, > address, phone number, now asking for the item # and my member ID > (because he must be running this on quite a few people he couldn't know > which one I was from the email). I'll post any more info received. > Meanwhile I think ebay has closed that account. > Anyway, just another warning amidst the many out there. > dave > -- > dave g > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service
WOw! - which, again, hurts legit sellers as much as buyers. so annoying. Glad you didn't get burned, dave ann
