Ebay Scams

[brian b]

Just lost out on a new laptop for my son and now I get an average of two second chance offers an hour. Man I bet werstern union is staying busy. What a bunch of scammers, make you just want to never go to e-bay again.

[dpeterson]

Just lost out on a new laptop for my son and now I get an average of two second chance offers an hour. Man I bet werstern union is staying busy. What a bunch of scammers, make you just want to never go to e-bay again.

i've been getting tons of paypal update your info please emails lately.. all scams.

dave

[John Price]

I just got a scam e mail this week from someone trying to get into my account! Called Paypal and sure enough it was a fraud! It look legitamate!.....Good thing I didn't click on the link!..... :p

[brian b]

Yea it is getting bad everyone looks just like a real e-bay e-mail, just no second chance offer when you go to your e-bay page.

[Jack Gretz]

The other thing to look out for is that "customers" who want different pictures other than the website so that they can use those to scam people on ebay auctions. Be careful out there! :p

[olectric]

I'm sure you all know this, but just to be sure:

In the email scams from Paypal and eBay where they tell you to "update your info" or whatever, look at the link that they want you to click on. If your internet browser is set to show the status bar at the bottom of the window, you can see what the link will actually take you to without clicking on it. BTW, the status bar is the bar that says "loading" or "done" or displays a link's address when you mouse over it.

Well, mouse over the links in these emails. The scam emails' links always begin with some really long number. That's how you know it's a fake address. Authentic Paypal sites will always start with https://www.paypal.com. The https means it's secure. I'm pretty sure that eBay pages that you change personal info on (such as credit cards, ect) start with the same thing.

Anyway, this is just "for what it's worth." Sometime, you may actually get an authentic email from eBay or Paypal where someone really did try to fraudulently use your account or where you need to actually update your stuff. It would be nice to be able to discern which are real and which are not.

Just mouse over the links.

[dannopelli]

The other thing to look out for is that "customers" who want different pictures other than the website so that they can use those to scam people on ebay auctions. Be careful out there! :p

Jack, this is so true, and it has caused some real issues for those of us that are legitimate! Problem is some folks put REALLY crappy pics out there. And legitimate buyers like me can't get a good look at things. I have bought a few "mint" guitars in the past year that have more dings than my doorbell!

Now because of all the scams folks are wary about sending pics. I have passed on a few auctions because of this.

[Jack Gretz]

You are correct -- Many people have very good wishes but as we go on and people become more savy the more the crooks are trying to get you.

I can not believe some of the traps that people have tried to set for us. One thing as far as pictures go -- let the person know how serious you are by giving them a phone number or a legitimate way of geting to you outside of e-mail.
Tell the person that they can place a logo on the photo so that they know that you will not steal the image.

Just some things to consider

[dannopelli]

You are correct -- Many people have very good wishes but as we go on and people become more savy the more the crooks are trying to get you.

I can not believe some of the traps that people have tried to set for us. One thing as far as pictures go -- let the person know how serious you are by giving them a phone number or a legitimate way of geting to you outside of e-mail.
Tell the person that they can place a logo on the photo so that they know that you will not steal the image.

Just some things to consider

Excellent points!

[bigdaddyd]

I don't get all of these scams. What a waste of time. I just experienced the weirdest thing. Someone hit the BIN on my Anderson on Ebay. I have contacted him for a week. He had 0 feedback...there was nothing I could do. I did a search where he was the bidder and he hit the BIN on numerous high ticket items....and didn't contact or pay for any of those either. What is the point of this? The worst part is that Ebay won't let me file any claims against him until tomorrow.

[dannopelli]

I don't get all of these scams. What a waste of time. I just experienced the weirdest thing. Someone hit the BIN on my Anderson on Ebay. I have contacted him for a week. He had 0 feedback...there was nothing I could do. I did a search where he was the bidder and he hit the BIN on numerous high ticket items....and didn't contact or pay for any of those either. What is the point of this? The worst part is that Ebay won't let me file any claims against him until tomorrow.

It sucks. Happened to me once and the guy actually gave me neutral feedback on a guitar he NEVER paid for! It is a SERIOUS quirk in the ebay system that you can get feedback from a non paying bidder!

[bigdaddyd]

I didn't even think of that..and I left him a negative feedback. What a waste of my time. I haven't been able to show the piece this whole week because of him. :mad: