I wasn't able to easily find how to notify their fraud department so I
sent a
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 06:59:14PM -0500, Adam Maas wrote:
# Pretty common eBay scam.
#
# Don't reply. Report to eBay (who is death on this sort of thing).
#
# -Adam
#
# On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:
# > I had made $1432 (firing order, dontcha know) bid on some gear, a K20,
# > 16-50, 50-135 and other goodies. I decided to drop out of the race and
# > the auction went for $1800.
# >
# > I got a message, from yet another ebay account, saying that the person
# > who won the auction didn't have the money, and they are offering it to
# > me at the price I bid, please contact them at such and such an email
# > address, where they need my ebay account, real name, address etc. so
# > that they can go through ebay procedures to sell me the gear at the
# > price I bid at, and they won't charge shipping.
# >
# > Why a different account? It's her husband's account. The account that
# > was selling the gear has not responded to my queries. I'm about 87.3%
# > convinced that someone is working a scam, though I'm not sure how they
# > managed to contact me through ebay.
# >
# > Is there any reason that I shouldn't just report this to ebay's fraud
# > department? If I should, who would I report it to?
# >
# >
# > --
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# > Larry Colen [email protected]
http://www.red4est.com/lrc
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