Latest eBay Fraud

[RareIQ]

Found this in this mornings paper;
Latest eBay Fraud

 

[Wilfredo]

It will be more and more common I guess.

 

[Whisper]

Originally posted by cmos
It will be more and more common I guess.

Yeah, it's sadly so...

Thanks God I've never been in such a situation!

 

[aww]

Common sense should have told them if an item is listed $7000 below fair market value, something is wrong. There is no polite way to point out to them that greed got the best of them, its a basic tool of con-artists.

I feel really bad for them, but then again I've never had $5000 to throw around to buy toys like that.

At least they were bright enough not to give them the complete $5000 and "only" lost $2000.

This is also why escrow services exist, and if they had at least used PayPal protection, the first $1000 of that would have been covered.

 

[Jeanco]

wow thats too bad

 

[rambo6376]

Sometimes you just don't feel sorry for people!

 

[Bill1]

Thanks for posting this news story

 

[darksk8er]

2000 is a lot of cash to lose in an acution. Never do anything in ebay that;s 1000+

 

[Anthony]

Originally posted by darksk8er
2000 is a lot of cash to lose in an acution. Never do anything in ebay that;s 1000+

Or even 500+ in most cases, I'd say.