eBay fraud on BBC1 Watchdog now
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Yeah, the examples were pretty extreme in the greed and stupididy will get you burnt stakes, but....
.. that whole peice felt to me like an eBay PR/Public information film, type peice for the run up to xmas. Probably not a bad thing, IMO.
< Gentleman in smoking jacket strolls into study to find young son surfing eBay
"So Jimmy, are you comfortable that that vendor actually owns that XBox 360?"
"Why yes father. Why would anyone who has internet access lie to me?"
"STOP!!!"
/public information film.
.. that whole peice felt to me like an eBay PR/Public information film, type peice for the run up to xmas. Probably not a bad thing, IMO.
< Gentleman in smoking jacket strolls into study to find young son surfing eBay
"So Jimmy, are you comfortable that that vendor actually owns that XBox 360?"
"Why yes father. Why would anyone who has internet access lie to me?"
"STOP!!!"
/public information film.
ZR1cliff said:
The supposed lottery winners that sent off money to claim their lottery win surely people are not that stupid or am i missing something.
They deserve to get ripped off for being so stupid.
>> Edited by ZR1cliff on Tuesday 6th December 19:25
I know! we both said how silly and greedy these 'victims' were! We get emails like that every day, I just can't imagine the stupidity of people who fall for it!
A lad I knew at Uni sent 1k to a guy in france via Western Union - He told me after doing this to which my reply was "what assurance do you have he will send the laptop, its looking very much like you could get ripped off here" to which his reply was "why didnt you tell me this before" 
chris watton said:
The supposed lottery winners that sent off money to claim their lottery win
They deserve to get ripped off for being so stupid.
>> Edited by ZR1cliff on Tuesday 6th December 19:25
I know! we both said how silly and greedy these 'victims' were! We get emails like that every day, I just can't imagine the stupidity of people who fall for it!
Whats worrying is the people who fall for those dam penis extension emails....
The thing is, 'most' people would see the warning signs in huge red lights flashing everywhere if they're asking for money up front - surely, anyone would assume that if you had indeed won such an amount of money, any agents would take their cut once you got the money, the same way solicitors rape you once you've sold your house?
Right, am off to update my PayPal info online, as I have had this email telling me my details are now out of date........................................
Right, am off to update my PayPal info online, as I have had this email telling me my details are now out of date........................................
i seem to recall that past programs pointing out the peril of ebay (i think it was that masterpiece of investagative journalism, tonight with trevor macdonut)featured people who'd been ripped off, but when they actually got down to the nitty gritty, all of them had done deals off ebay, hoping to make a killing, including one bloke who'd payed something daft like £7k for a motorbike that didn't exist.
i remember the journalist trying to get a rise out of the head of ebay uk, but to his credit he remained un-flustered, and pointed out that all the muppets featured had done the deal off ebay, and how ebay warned against doing that.
i remember the journalist trying to get a rise out of the head of ebay uk, but to his credit he remained un-flustered, and pointed out that all the muppets featured had done the deal off ebay, and how ebay warned against doing that.
A Mac-using friend of mine was watching an auction today for a 30" cinema display. Normally £2,300+, this bloke was selling for $800.
Except 'he' was in the UK. And his 82 feedback had been mostly children's clothes. And now he was selling Macs and Mac monitors. All on 24-hour auctions. And there was a webmail address in the advert...
:bigflashingredlightsandklaxon:
So I warned the real seller, shopped the bastard to eBay and his auctions have now gone. I think eBay should award extra feedback points for good citizens like me
Except 'he' was in the UK. And his 82 feedback had been mostly children's clothes. And now he was selling Macs and Mac monitors. All on 24-hour auctions. And there was a webmail address in the advert...
:bigflashingredlightsandklaxon:
So I warned the real seller, shopped the bastard to eBay and his auctions have now gone. I think eBay should award extra feedback points for good citizens like me
simpo two said:
A Mac-using friend of mine was watching an auction today for a 30" cinema display. Normally £2,300+, this bloke was selling for $800.
Except 'he' was in the UK. And his 82 feedback had been mostly children's clothes. And now he was selling Macs and Mac monitors. All on 24-hour auctions. And there was a webmail address in the advert...
:bigflashingredlightsandklaxon:
So I warned the real seller, shopped the bastard to eBay and his auctions have now gone. I think eBay should award extra feedback points for good citizens like me
Hijacked account, either by spyware or a phishing email by the sounds of it. The fallout will come to the guy who got 'jacked.
sadako said:
Hijacked account, either by spyware or a phishing email by the sounds of it. The fallout will come to the guy who got 'jacked.
Absolutely. The tragedy of these things is that the scammer disappears into the night to scam again, whilst an honest seller gets thrown off and loses his good record. That's why I mailed him first so he could do something about it: stop the auctions or at least tell eBay he'd been hacked.
sparkythecat said:
Just type the word plasma into ebays search engine.
You're not wrong:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Brand-New-Hyundai-HQP501HR-50-
Blower267's just bitten the dust...
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