BigBadBabyBoomer Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 http://cgi.ebay.com/BEAUTIFIL-Set-of-Klipsch-La-Scala-Floor-Speakers_W0QQitemZ110062333585QQihZ001QQcategoryZ45206QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cut-Throat Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 Must have been. The listing has already been removed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groomlakearea51 Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 Law Enforcement analysis: Scam; UPS would be at least $400+ for "air", "next day air" per UPS store owner for 100+ pound speakers anywhere (including across the street); Notwithstanding that, eBay cgi address is invalid; The link itself is thus invalid and ebay has no record of that item; Likely scam was: Part 1; to get you to email, bid or BIN; then redirect your offer to buy, or payment to a false paypal or "spoofed" non-eBay transfer site; part 2.. they would have, for "security reasons", required you to re-enter the name and password at some point; result, they would have "captured" your eBay account info and used your info to fraudulently post for sale, etc. Suggestion, report it to eBay anyways. We deal with these problems a lot here, especially during the high volume "holiday season", and we generally advise everyone to log in to eBay only via the ebay https:// site, and access the search lists via their "My eBay" which is generally secure at that point. We also tell everyone to ignore any emails with second chance offers, etc from "eBay" or persons identifying thenselves as eBay users. While slow and a pain in the.... Only use the eBay email system for these transactions. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadBabyBoomer Posted November 30, 2006 Author Share Posted November 30, 2006 Amazing analysis...but how do they get the ad into the ebay system to start with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEC Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 I looked at that auction before Ebay removed it. It was a stolen eBay account. If the scammer can get your log-in information in some way, he can use the account to list an item or in the case of the one yesterday, looks like he listed a hundred of more. He wrote the ad in such a way that he wanted you to contact him by an email address that he had in the listing as HTML. That probably keeps the eBay checking features from reading the email address and catching him. The neat thing about this one for the scammer, is that he may get many "bites" on one auction by email. And even if you don't buy anything from him, he at least gets some good email addresses to share with all his buddys so they can all attempt email scams on you. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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