New e-bay scam alert!!!

Just got an e-mail from a supposed buyer about a bike for sale on e-Bay. Don't have a bike for sale and the number is not on e-Bay. Don't know what the scam is but it is some sort of a trick. Prob. will ask to enter your ID or password. I sent it on to e-Bay

 

eBay is full of scammers......

The last two or three things I have bid on and did not win that was over $1000 ........I got bogus 2nd chance offers. One item.....I got 3 from 3 different "sellers"

I replied to all 3......saying I would just show up and PAY for the item...Never heard back from them.......

Two were SBC Big Inch long blocks and the other was a high $$$ 32 Ford part.....

 

ebay is dangerous......The Last few times I went to buy a motor they glorified the description, painted with a ton of paint, and then got pissed when I told them to kiss my ass. Everybody is tryin to make money of a junk....the best thing to do is stay local with buying anything, ask to see, and pay when you get their....If the guy doesnt want to work with you the he is most likley full of crap !!!!!!

 

I get those now and then. They fake the format of the eBay e-mails. But they leave out a detail here and there. Plus I got them at an e-mail from an account I'd never placed a bid with, let alone had a selling credit card on.

I keep getting one now that my account is suspended. Oddly, if you click forward or reply, the spacing is all messed up, spaces in the middle of words and things. The link in it has a numbered IP before the www.ebay.com routine, which also gives it away.

The answer is, never click on a link in an e-mail. Always go to the site through a bookmark or by typing the address out in your browswer.

eBay is dangerous, but mostly to your patience for stupidity. I sure do get sick of nasty e-mails from braindead morons that don't know anything about cars except how much they can whine about the ones I listed. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and sometimes they're full of shit. I tell people right in the listings to come look, or tell me what you want to see and I'll get some photos, on high dollar stuff.

 

Nothing new about it; been going on for years...
~ Paul
aka "Tha Driver"

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

 

This scam is fairly new. Here's how it works.
Ebay changed it's internal email "ebay messages" system so that sometimes, when you get a "question from ebay user" email from ebay's messages system, when you try to reply using your email account, the recipient's address does not show up on the address line, and what you will see there is "usetheyellowbutton", meaning you should hit the yellow "REPLY" button in the email, and it will let you reply to that ebay user through ebays messages system.

The scam is, that the email, although it looks like it is from ebay, is from a scammer, and the question may be about some item you did not have on auction or it may say something vague like: "I won your auction and now need the payment info".

If you click on the yellow REPLY button, it will take you to a page that looks like an ebay log-in page, but if you look at the URL of that site in your tool bar it will be nothing like an ebay address. The page will ask you to enter your ebay user name and ebay password.

So, the way to avoid this scam is, if you get any emails that look like an ebay generated "ask seller a question" or "ask seller question about shipping", go to ebay, log in, go to my ebay, click on messages and answer any messages there. The scam messages will not show up on the ebay site.

I have gotten about 10 of these scam emails over the last month.