Ebay Scam Warning

[JMugs]

We sold our old transit car transporter on ebay Sunday night at 10pm on an auction format, it made the reserve plus £100. Excellent, but still a cheap truck for somebody, but given that I am retired from the motor trade I was happy.
Monday morning I get a phone call at 8am "Hi bought your truck on ebay, can I pick it up 9am as I live close and will bring the money with me" no problem. My old business partner is counting out the money when the phone rings " Hi I bought your truck on ebay" ........ what!! The chap on the phone says "I'll message you right away through ebay so as you know it is me".... and he does.

The guy who is there trying to pay for it claims his mate is the one who bought it, but he'll be at work and he can't get hold of him, then gives up with that and tries to get force full about having it, then clears off.

So the scam is watch on ebay, don't bid wait and see if it is a bit of a bargain, then ring if there is a contact number, claim they are the buyer, pay in cash and clear off.

Whats the problem you may say you have your money ...... the problem is you have entered into a contract to provide the goods to somebody else, and that opens a whole can of worms!

So be careful!

Janners

[JMugs]

Just had this in my email. Nothing in my ebay messages. Hence Scam alert.
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[pisquee]

I had a similar message a couple of weeks ago, the bit that made it more believable was that it was "dear (my ebay username) (my email address)" rather than just the usual "dear Ebay user" Although the dubious link wasn't to an Ebay domain, and nothing in my Ebay messages on the website.
It did worry me saying my account had been suspended, and that worry almost overtook my usual sensibilities with rogue emails.

[James990]

I ALWAYS send any dubious messages from Ebay to [EMAIL="spoof@ebay.co.uk]spoof@ebay.co.uk[/EMAIL] 99.9% of the time they turn out to be attempted fraud or attempting to get the login details.

The same goes for PayPal any suspicious emails I always send to [EMAIL="spoof@paypal.co.uk]spoof@paypal.co.uk[/EMAIL]

James

[Reg]

I just had the same email but it wasn't sent to the email address that I have registered on eBay it was sent to the one on an old advert, also if it's genuine it will show in messages on your dashboard.

[James990]

ANyone received a message from Ebay offering a £20.00 voucher? The reason for the voucher, it seems, is to do with the cock up when they were hacked and all the personal details were taken!

James