scam adverts for tvr on ebay again
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As per the title.
Do not understand how ebay dont spot these, they are childlike the way they format the advert.
Gmail address for contact, all well below actual value.........but best of all, if you click on view sellers other items the list is endless
all for at £3000 and .....................from Italy.
Do not understand how ebay dont spot these, they are childlike the way they format the advert.
Gmail address for contact, all well below actual value.........but best of all, if you click on view sellers other items the list is endless
all for at £3000 and .....................from Italy.
The scam adverts have been up four times over the last four days, each with a different username, always with positive feedback. I've reported them. eBay seem to be incapable of picking these things up. This morning the same Chimp is advertised three times under identical listings. The trouble is some mug will fall for it and give them his/her Paypal details.
colin mee said:
This is getting silly now.they are doing it on Morgan's now.how many cars do they have.lol
Click on any of the adverts, click on sellers other items and gasp in disbelief.The list is massive, everything from cars, to motorbikes to boats and caravans.
Typical scam tactics, so nothing new there, but how the hell can they keep posting on ebay ?
They are so obvious can ebay not detect them ?
It seems someone has to keep reporting them, for them to be removed.
Pretty poor all round by ebay in my opinion.
It’s the same scammers that operated with ‘U k’ as the location.
This time there are 5 times the number of listings, which include all the old ones too.
They change the sellers address to business but why they continue is beyond me as it’s so obvious.
I emailed one last week and got a reply in excellent English that the car was on Orkney. (ie Ican’t view it)
It’s almost like they’re going out of their way to be a burden to the Ebay fraud Dept.
This time there are 5 times the number of listings, which include all the old ones too.
They change the sellers address to business but why they continue is beyond me as it’s so obvious.
I emailed one last week and got a reply in excellent English that the car was on Orkney. (ie Ican’t view it)
It’s almost like they’re going out of their way to be a burden to the Ebay fraud Dept.
TJC46 said:
they were reported to ebay as fraudulent and have been removed.......for now.
Keep looking on ebay for the next few days, no doubt they will reappear.
They’ve been coming on up to 4 times an hour, last time they had two sellers going at the same time. Keep looking on ebay for the next few days, no doubt they will reappear.
If anyone still sees them a few hours after reporting it’ll be because they are two or three sellers on by then
There are millions of items for sale on ebay. They can't review the photos of every single listing in turn.
I use ebay frequently and am annoyed by them on many fronts but they do their best here. They are removed as soon as reported (although they still appear in search results for some ridiculous reason.) If an ebay member has given away his password to a scammer, that's not their fault. I try to email the account holder to make them aware their user profile has been compromised. As mentioned above, it may be deliberate to clog up the site. Shpock anyone?
I use ebay frequently and am annoyed by them on many fronts but they do their best here. They are removed as soon as reported (although they still appear in search results for some ridiculous reason.) If an ebay member has given away his password to a scammer, that's not their fault. I try to email the account holder to make them aware their user profile has been compromised. As mentioned above, it may be deliberate to clog up the site. Shpock anyone?
ianwayne said:
There are millions of items for sale on ebay. They can't review the photos of every single listing in turn.
I use ebay frequently and am annoyed by them on many fronts but they do their best here. They are removed as soon as reported (although they still appear in search results for some ridiculous reason.) If an ebay member has given away his password to a scammer, that's not their fault. I try to email the account holder to make them aware their user profile has been compromised. As mentioned above, it may be deliberate to clog up the site. Shpock anyone?
I look at previous sold items and there’s often a phone number so I text to tell them. Pretty pointless sometimes as by the time they read the text Ebay have taken down the scam I use ebay frequently and am annoyed by them on many fronts but they do their best here. They are removed as soon as reported (although they still appear in search results for some ridiculous reason.) If an ebay member has given away his password to a scammer, that's not their fault. I try to email the account holder to make them aware their user profile has been compromised. As mentioned above, it may be deliberate to clog up the site. Shpock anyone?
Are they hacked though? Saw a recent TV prog where genuine Ebayers were approached to act as fronts for these vermin, those approached were genuine but the promise of cash percentages were dangled in their face as sweeteners to get them on board..one guy even accepted payment into his account, told to keep say 10% and shift the balance to the scammer....of course when the item never showed the buyer came looking for their cash and he was liable !
cb500t said:
Are they hacked though? Saw a recent TV prog where genuine Ebayers were approached to act as fronts for these vermin, those approached were genuine but the promise of cash percentages were dangled in their face as sweeteners to get them on board..one guy even accepted payment into his account, told to keep say 10% and shift the balance to the scammer....of course when the item never showed the buyer came looking for their cash and he was liable !
Interesting.I have very few replies when I message sellers they have been hacked.
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