[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi All > >Am I right in thinking this is another EbayUK repeat of the dodgy 5071A >auction that was listed a week or so ago? > > Nigel, probably yes. Some of the characters go on for weeks or months with the same phony ads but with new or newly hi-jacked seller identities. There was one Racal dual receiver ebay ad, originally for real, that appeared over and over again at intervals for months, maybe thirty or forty times in all... It sometimes used to take eBay days to pull and NARU them, I would sometimes bid just to see how long they did take, and also tell eBay, but that is a pretty thankless task.
The tell tale signs are many, asking for Western Union Money orders, soliciting direct contact and so on. Looking at the seller's other items will give a clue often, if there are pages of lots of presumably desirable goodies like Plasma TVs, laptops etc., listed very cheap. The 5071 is quite a sophisticated item for the usual run of the mill scammer though. An odd choice. 73 Dan ac6ao / g3ncr _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
