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You may have come across the bidder: scamcop_do_not_email_or_bid_hijacked
I want to thank all of you who yesterday sent your comments and support. Some of you had questions. I couldn't get back to you without knowing your email addresses (new accounts must wait 3 days before contacting another member through eBay message system). For those let me make a short explanation.
The person listing these fraudulent items is NOT the owner of the account. The real member is not the scammer. Somehow his/her account has been compromised and his good name and reputation is being used. The member may or may not be aware of the situation. If they know, they might be waiting for eBay to take action so they can recover control of their accounts. You may encounter that the accounts of sellers with high feedback ratings or powersellers had been stolen. If the member was an active seller you may find his/her legit listings in the middle of all the other bogus items. A good advice is to always look at their other items, you may easily spot the difference between the member's listings and the scams. In the case that the member is not selling anything or is mainly a buyer, you will only find bogus items. But you can look at his/her previous items for sale or transactions. (Why would someone who always sell figurines be selling a lot of Plasma TV's, Laptops, High-end Cameras?, or how a casual buyer now has possesion of all this merchandise?).
The scammer wants the buyer to email him at the address specified. Which is not the one associated to the eBay account. If you sent an email through eBay the real owner of the account might receive it.
The list of email addresses at the right, was compiled during a period of less than 24-hours from all the fraudulent listings I came accross. They are used over and over again, so it's even possible to do a "title and description" search for some of this emails and find more and more scams.
If you come across a listing that seems fraudulent report it here: http://pages.ebay.com/help/contact_us/_base/result_6_4_7.html
If you believe someone's account has been stolen report it here: http://pages.ebay.com/help/contact_us/_base/result_5_2_6.html
eBay's Info: http://pages.ebay.com/help/account/ma-account-theft.html
Last but not least, you may direct any comments, suggestions or questions to this email address: ebayfraudsters@gmail.com
I want to thank all of you who yesterday sent your comments and support. Some of you had questions. I couldn't get back to you without knowing your email addresses (new accounts must wait 3 days before contacting another member through eBay message system). For those let me make a short explanation.
The person listing these fraudulent items is NOT the owner of the account. The real member is not the scammer. Somehow his/her account has been compromised and his good name and reputation is being used. The member may or may not be aware of the situation. If they know, they might be waiting for eBay to take action so they can recover control of their accounts. You may encounter that the accounts of sellers with high feedback ratings or powersellers had been stolen. If the member was an active seller you may find his/her legit listings in the middle of all the other bogus items. A good advice is to always look at their other items, you may easily spot the difference between the member's listings and the scams. In the case that the member is not selling anything or is mainly a buyer, you will only find bogus items. But you can look at his/her previous items for sale or transactions. (Why would someone who always sell figurines be selling a lot of Plasma TV's, Laptops, High-end Cameras?, or how a casual buyer now has possesion of all this merchandise?).
The scammer wants the buyer to email him at the address specified. Which is not the one associated to the eBay account. If you sent an email through eBay the real owner of the account might receive it.
The list of email addresses at the right, was compiled during a period of less than 24-hours from all the fraudulent listings I came accross. They are used over and over again, so it's even possible to do a "title and description" search for some of this emails and find more and more scams.
If you come across a listing that seems fraudulent report it here: http://pages.ebay.com/help/contact_us/_base/result_6_4_7.html
If you believe someone's account has been stolen report it here: http://pages.ebay.com/help/contact_us/_base/result_5_2_6.html
eBay's Info: http://pages.ebay.com/help/account/ma-account-theft.html
Last but not least, you may direct any comments, suggestions or questions to this email address: ebayfraudsters@gmail.com
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