Posted by chriscase on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 13:49:12 :
In Reply to: Re: Spray both hauled, San Diego to NC? posted by Russ/Wyo on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 11:54:39 :
The buyer was a newbie to eBay, 0 feedbacks. The scammer got his name, and my spray booth ad, off eBay. Somehow Scammer got his email address*, said he was my nephew handling the sale, and told him that in addition to my price, for another $1500 he would ship it. $3,000 by Western Union... send it to Florida... The buyer wasn't returning my calls, he thought he was handling everything through the scammer via email. I finaly made a phone connection this AM. Just in time, I think...
I posted in the ad that I won't ship, so the scammer came up with the angle of doing the buyer a favor, and shipping. Nice guy, eh?
* The buyer's ebay name was the same as his email add, like Buyer@AOL. So I think the scammer sent phishers to Buyer@ AOL, Yahoo, HotMail, etc, til he hit it. The buyer hasn't sold on eBay, so that angle wouldn't work.
Hmmm, I wonder if you can send a ebay message to somebody, and get them to reply through regular email? It works that way during a deal, but does it work that way for folks with no ongoing ebay business? I think it didn't work once when I tried to buy an unsold item. I dunno...
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