Another E-bay Scam ?

[69 Code51 Z]

Really wanted to share this. There were a pair of NOS wheelwells on e-bay about a week ago that I had bid on and lost. The winning bidder I know of - price was what I expected - done deal . Right. I get this e-mail from an unknow sender with the wheelwells and item # in the subject
box offering me the item. Then I get another e-mail which looks like it is from e-bay offering a 2nd chance on the item - that the winning bidder was unable to complete the transaction. As I mentioned earlier I know who the winner bidder was and wondered what was wrong with the items/auction. I get another e-mail from the seller that he is going to notify E-Bay if I want to exercise this second chance offer and that E-bay will send me an invoice. He also tells me he will throw in the shipping. Sounding too good to be true by now. I send him back an e-mail telling him I will take them - just send me a phone # to discuss payment arrangements. Next I get a e-mail from him telling me that once he receives payment in London - because thats where his business is - his wife will send me the items. No phone #. I then receive an e-maill that looks like its from E-bay with the invoice with his mailing address being London - requesting payment Western Union. I'm really feeling uncomfortable by this time and go to the Security page at E-bay. Right on the first page it states never pay with Western Union. I then go through the E-bay process and forward the e-mail address that was supposedly from E-bay w/invoice. E-bay responses that this is not from E-bay. This seller had over 200 positive feedbacks.

[Mr70]

Sounds like the sellers identity/account was Hijacked.

[Bill Pritchard]

Hi Carl, nice to see you here on the Supercar site.

Sounds like you did the right thing in contacting eBay. You really have to watch yourself in dealings like that.....as you say, if something sounds fishy, it probably is. I decided to quit using PayPal because I was getting all sorts of strange sounding - but absolutely official looking - emails purporting to be from PayPal, asking me to 're-register my account' or something like that They were all bogus, too

[PeteLeathersac]

The Pay-Pal emails are phisher ones that go to anyone....not just those w/ accounts. . I've never had a Pay-Pal account but get them and the phoney eBay ones almost every day? .

~ Pete

[budnate]

guys there really working the second chance offer deal hard these days...

I sold a motor yesterday and the buyer was hit last week with the same deal on a boat he was going for, and he almost sent the deposit but called the guy and he said no way the first buyer had it, done deal.

there getting all the newbies and taking them to the cleaners, I love e bay but this crap really needs to stop, they have the power to do it but dont want to spend the dough it would take to get r done. to bad we cant get some real press on there lack of protecting people.