In a message dated 7/10/2006 12:36:01 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
This has become a common practice on eBay. ---------------------------- Alas, this is all too true. Some people may have noticed last week when a scammer listed an Edison Kinetoscope -- 10 times. All the writeups and pictures were identical but there were three different seller names. Plus, the description said "No bids, email for Buy It Now price and terms." Of course he wanted Western Union... I did a search for the scammer's text in the description and found that he was using Turbolister to upload over 20 fake auctions A MINUTE! He was mainly selling modern LCD projectors, apparently he just didn't realize that an Edison projector was not the same thing and that multiple listings of such an item would be sure to catch attention. I sent over fifty reports to eBay, they did finally act but they were taking auctions down slower than the scammer was putting up new ones. In the end he listed over 3,000 fake auctions using dozens of hijacked accounts. Eventually eBay prevailed but you can be sure out of all those listings he snared a few suckers. Best regards, Rene Rondeau
