E-bay fraud again

catalina_mike

Item Inspiration Rebreather (260026074398)

Jason Ooi

Sorry!
You mean fraud case? What that number mean?

teksimple

This is indeed a scam. Looks like a legitimate ebay member had his credentials swiped. If I had more time I would scam the scammer. Lets see what happens.

From: Baciugl@aol.com
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 9:50 PM
To: [removed]
Subject: Re: inspiration

Hi,

I'm willing to sell it for $700 . At this time I am located in Romania and I can only take the payment through Western Union money transfer. I will ship within 24 hours from the payment using the UPS Air Services so that you may receive the unit in less then 72 hours. For our protection we will do this deal trough ebay square trade company and our transaction will be supervised by ebay safe harbour team. You will be 100% protected against description error and fraud. I never make any deal outside ebay. I will pay the shipping and handling taxes.

Thanks

catalina_mike

The number was the item number from ebay. Got an email it has been ended. I would have been the top bidder with my 1,000,000 usd bid. Cheers They need to get some new pictures.

Jason Ooi

He selling damn cheap USD700 impossible could be fraud...Thanks

RebreatherDave

The high bidder is ignoring all e-mail warnings.....at 0 feedback he's an E-bay newbie.....I hate to see someone get screwed out of $3451, but anyone that dumb shouldn't be diving a rebreather in the first place.

I sent E-bay a warning, but E-bay doesn't care, all they care about is their listing fees. I am sure the thief is using a stolen credit card too.

Try typing in HDR-FX1, Sony's HiDef 3 CCD camera.......you should see all the E-bay scams for that high end big ticket item too, all asking for Western Union funds wire to some <SNIP> poisoning the gene pool in the country he is illegally in, always saying how the buyer will be protected.

Who sent that e-mail to the scammer?

And can we track down the real seller of the unit and who bought it to maybe bring this buyer to his senses?

babar

there's a plague of scam listings for dolphins. All 24 hour listings, all starting at 40 dollars. If you look at the other items they're selling, all big ticket items: power books, plasma tv's, ect.
And can we track down the real seller of the unit and who bought it to maybe bring this buyer to his senses

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RebreatherDave

I am happy to report that the winning bidder is one of our own rebreatherworld members who shall remain anonymous unless he wishes otherwise.

He said the fraud auction lister won't see a dime......notice he has 0 feedback with a whacked out member name...hmmmm, a sockpuppet bidder as a fraud auction countermeasure? I like it!

Way to go!

chunter

Hmmmm. I wonder who that could have been?

RebreatherDave deserves a pat on the back. He sent 5 or 6 emails to uckybelukfe to warn of the fraud. Uckybelukfe doesn't check his emails that often!

I wish there was a better way to deal with these pr1cks.

Aloha,
Charlie

RebreatherDave

Interesting screen name that new member had....I am not sure if I need to brush up on my pig latin or my pigeon English...or a little of both.....

I have just changed my paypal account so all funds are drawn off my credit card. Seems as if I was just stiffed via a paypal payment for some software listed by, you guessed it, a [-------------] temporarily infesting the UK just before heading permanently back to, you guessed it, Egypt. Gee, these people stereotype themselves, no help from us needed.

Paypal tries to make it difficult for people to do that, that way when you get stiffed, Paypal can pull out all their lame ass fine print so you get the added enjoyment of not only being screwed by the [-------------] representing the family of the late UNITA rebel commander Jonas Savimbi of Angola with a most confidential transaction earning you a commission of 15 million USD (fifteen million), but now PayPal has you bend over a 2nd time.

I urge all who use E-bay to set up your paypal account to draw funds from a card, that way if you get scammed, just flip the bird paypal as your credit card company refunds you the money almost instantly.