eBay - TVR scams - beware!!!

[KKson]

Hi all, eBay has a number of TVR's up for sale at the moment, many of which are scams. The cars in question have all been reported as fraud to ebay several times and the seller was shut down however within a few hours the 1724 cars he's advertising are all back up via another users name. I spoke to ebay direct earlier today and they advised that they are struggling to identify the fraudulent sellers so if you do see anything suspicious then please report the car for sale as fraud. Pictures of the cars supposedly being sold are shown below. eBay have confirmed that all of the cars shown below plus the other 1719 do indeed appear to be part of a scam. If you know anyone interested in these cars then please warn them that the sale is fraudulent.

Edited by KKson on Thursday 5th December 21:13

[phillpot]

These "scams" are so blatant does anyone really fall for them?

Apart from the silly cheap price there are the dodgey delivery/payment arrangements and the mass of other vehicles, bikes, tractors etc. the vendor has for sale!


Answering my own question, I guess they must or why would the scammers persist ...

[KKson]

Of the 1724 cars the guy was advertising, probably a quarter had bids on them, so a lot of gullible people out there.

[cologne2792]

I once sold a few Harley Davison motorcycles at £12,000 a pop on eBay...apparently.

I had a very dodgy email, purportedly from eBay that informed me of suspicious activity on my account and notified that the account had been suspended.

It transpired that the email was genuine and my account had indeed suspended pending an investigation.
The account was restored within a few hours and the remnants of the fraudulent seller were present in the templates when I next came to sell legitimately.

I asked eBay how this had happened and they reassured me that I didn't need to take any additional security steps as the fraudulent access to my account occurred at their end.

This was many years back and so far no further infiltration has occurred.

[FlipFlopGriff]

I've seen a lot of other cars/motorhomes which are all the same format. One picture, very little detail and a picture of an e-mail address and a buy it now price.
Once you've seen a couple you realise it has to be a scam. Pete5687 is the latest user name.
FFG

[KKson]

Reported "pete5687" to ebay this morning. Yesterday he was G8spy! Same cars, same adverts, all 1724 listed within 1 minute of each other.

[Suproman]

happened to me once few years back.. was selling a rare keyboard/organ on ebay ..I then received an email from a kindly gent who warned me that it was "for sale" in another part of the country on gumtree. Whole advert had been copied, pics n all so looked very genuine. Despite my contact to gumtree and ebay to advise them, and it did get taken down from gumtree, ebay had no explanation regards its "theft" ..It would periodically pop up with some silly price on gumtree sites elsewhere in the world. I would just google it and up it popped. A well travelled keyboard..

[Jurgen Schmidt]

How on earth can eBay permit 1724 cars to be advertised in a minute?

Preventing that from being possible would eliminate most of the fraudsters, you'd think

[KKson]

His account was closed down by ebay yesterday and this morning he's back up as 11bigmike1990, this time with 1995 items listed. Again all items are listed within the same minute.

How ebay are unable to detect these things is beyond me.

[lancepar]

If you have a lot of items and you want them to start and therefore appear together then there is an ebay option, it's called "ebay schedule listing".

That's the way to do it..