Ok, I got him guys, in my past life I spent a lot of time around people with the proverbial criminal mind. That kind of thinking is what it's going to take to get these kind of guys. Thats what it took to outsmart this mutt.
Here is how they pull this off. First, there are more then one in on the scam, that explains the fact that when this guy was asked by someone from this board where to send the deposit to the reply was an address in new York, while he claims residence in Illinois. Therefore he never accepted any payment in his name or his address. That makes it tough to catch the guy at any more then running a false auction for kicks. Meanwhile, the mutt up in New York is running different auctions with the payment going to the Illinois address. Common sense would dictate the old "If it's too good to be true...", but, the chance at a super good deal for $999? Many would take the risk. So, Heckel and Jeckel get together at the end of the month and split up the dough. Pretty clean except here is how they screwed up......
The idea is to open a account with Ebay, (while it is probebly dozens of accounts), buy up a bunch of little stuff to get good feedback then do the big$$$ scams as long as possible on that account. He almost got it right.....In about 10 more days it would have been too late to click on the feedback left for him from a past buy he made to see the auction which allows a Email from anyone(Me), to the person he last bought from, which that honest Ebayer provides the full name and address of the person they sent the item to in Illinois, and there it is, full name and address of our cyberspace thief. Big thanks to Jennifer who is an honest Ebay Power Seller and more then willing to help with that information. The good outweigh the bad on Ebay.
This guy is going down.
MotownMadman
