This guy needs a hand!

[bbdon]

I hate to disagree with another member, but that escrow thing sounds like a scam that I have been hearing about a lot. I won't use escrow sites. Here's a link to a story about this:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/775457.asp

[JoeG]

Escrow Alliance--claims to do escrow work for yahoo auctions---Go to--GOOGLE---Type in---YAHOO AUCTIONS ESCROW----Look under---YAHOO HELP,general help.----Yahoo explains the pros and pitfalls of what to watch for and who to contact with relation to ecrow companies.------JoeG--

[budnate]

No problem, Like I said do your homework on the Co..

Thnx for the heads up on the scam alert, I had not heard that yet.

Bud.

[ChrisS]

Thanks for all of the input. I became a little suspicious when I couldn't find any "real" contact info (address or telephone) on their site. The item was a high-end digital camera, probably not worth the chance to save a few bucks unless someone can tell me that they have conducted business with them.

[ChrisS]

The article in the link bbdon posted included a site www.SOS4auctions.com to check on escrow services. Turns out that EscrowAlliance has only been around for a couple of days and their evaluation is that it is fraudulent [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif[/img]. Thanks again guys.

[bbdon]

Chris,
You should fill out a fraud alert with eBay, right away. Go Here:
http://crs.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayisapi.dll?crsstartpage
You may be able to stop them from scamming someone else.
And by the way, if you have your email address as your user name on ebay, that's a magnet for this kind of scammer.

[ChrisS]

I've already contacted the FBI's Internet Fraud Division but I'll do the e-bay form as well.
No, I don't use my e-mail ad, but I'm sure these people have ways of getting it anyway.