I entered some bids for some watches on eBay and has been receiving messages from other users offering to sell me the same items direct. They referred to their 'excellent' feedback record which are mostly for buying lots of low priced items, but none for selling. Out of the blue, they are trying to sell me a few- thousand USD watch. If this is a scam, they must have lots of patience to develop a feedback record that can number in the hundreds just for one big score, or am I being too suspicious? eBay maintains that their record for frauds is only fraction of a percent but I have only just started bidding and already received close to a dozen of such offers. Obviously I didn't reply, just trying to figure out the angle.

 

If its from someone abroad and only accepts money transfer thru western union it is a scam

report em, and walk away

They hijack other users accounts

 

Whats the easyiest was to report em?

Bex

 

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/communi...#how_to_report

 

lok,

No patience needed, they steal someone elses ID normally using email and similar named domain and fake ebay login pages.

The easiest way to tell is look at other items that have been sold by that UserID. Normally they wont be anything like what they are offering to you. There is *alot* of this going on at the moment and it is always high value items like laptops etc.

Gary

 

I got the same thing after losing a projector bid - dodgey as ****. Not sure why Western Union cant put a stop to these ***** using their service to scam people.

 

Read some articles about identity theft, scary thing for those not technically proficient enough to tell if the URL is genuine or fake. One of the clues as mentioned is overseas addresses, but some of the emails have not reached the stage of discussing payment methods yet, just asking for an indication of interest in their offer. But the most telling one is that the track record is always buying things below $10 each, e.g. baseball cards, but never selling anything. It is harder to fake a genuine seller of expensive stuff and most of the latter have a near 100% favourable feedback and they specialise in only one category and have a brick and mortar operation as their main business.

 

Hello

It must be a problem. I got a very convincing e-mail from "ebay" this afternoon, saying click here and re-confirm your password.

You had to look very carefully at the link to see that it's a fake.

Steve.

 

Lot of this crap around at the moment. Ebay will never ask for password/credit card details in emails...

 

It wasn't BESCO watches, was it? We are being absolutely spammed to death by them - 20 emails daily!!!

 

Boxst.

Have you still got that email?

If so could you forwatd it to me, please.

fatherpierre@hotmail.com

 

I have someone in the ukrane trying to rip me off through ebay, he has apparently paid western union, but I have no check (he said he paid 12 days ago)

I'm in the crapper what ever happens because, although i will not send anything until the cheque is cashed in my bank i bet he will give me bad feedback, even though he's trying to rip me off

 

Just do the same back.

A friend of mine has had a neg feedback removed by Ebay. Not sure how he did it but they removed it for him.

 

lozzaloz, it wasn't Besco watch, and they are not spam, just a sometimes quite polite letter offering an item similar to one I have made a bid on, and if I didn't bother to reply, no further email from that sender, but different sender will then offer the same thing with a different letter. What are the odds of some guys from a third-world country offering a brand new Vacheron Constantin platinum watch in a foolproof deal?