The Restorer
Established Member
Hi folks,
Just wanted to warn all you E-bayers of a scam that i got caught up in.
I received a phone call out of the blue from a chap who had purchased an Aiybo electronic dog (£800 :shock: ) and wanted to check details re postage. I told him i didn't know what he was on about and so he told me the story and gave me an E-bay number (6011561496). I checked this out and sure enough there was my E-bay details with my feedback etc. etc. but an address in Berlin, Germany.
I checked the my E-bay summary page and found no trace of the item within it, but did find that all of the sellers fees were on my account :roll:
If you try to contact E-bay you can only do so via there e-mail system. So far i've sent 5 e-mails in around 72hrs and only had one auto reply back :shock:
If that wasn't enough i noticed something odd with my personal e-mail (no spam mails :lol: )I check with my ISP and they advised that i'd set my E-mail to auto forward any incoming mail :roll: to a hotmail account. Soon altered that and associated passwords. Worried though about internet banking etc. etc.
Now i have a full and up to date internet security package from Norton with Firewalls etc. and assumed i was fine
I've informed local police, (no interest, no crime committed, heres a crime number sir :x ), E-bay (no response), Hotmail (will look into it), ISP (must be you're end problem :shock: ) Norton (want £18 to speak to them about it :lol: ).
The guy who was the winning bidder has been great about it and sent me various e-mails from the 3rd party, some of which have e-bay logos and hyper links to e-bay, so look very genuine.
I expect i'll loose my E-bay good name and feedback as a reult of this.
So just wanted to point out that E-bays a nest of vipers and it's way to easy to fall into one of these scams. The thing that alerted the potential buyer to the scam is that they wanted money via western union credit after supplying an e-mail from e-bay saying that the seller was bonded with them as a genuine and bonafide seller and funds were guaranteed etc.
Watch out :shock:
Steve.
Just wanted to warn all you E-bayers of a scam that i got caught up in.
I received a phone call out of the blue from a chap who had purchased an Aiybo electronic dog (£800 :shock: ) and wanted to check details re postage. I told him i didn't know what he was on about and so he told me the story and gave me an E-bay number (6011561496). I checked this out and sure enough there was my E-bay details with my feedback etc. etc. but an address in Berlin, Germany.
I checked the my E-bay summary page and found no trace of the item within it, but did find that all of the sellers fees were on my account :roll:
If you try to contact E-bay you can only do so via there e-mail system. So far i've sent 5 e-mails in around 72hrs and only had one auto reply back :shock:
If that wasn't enough i noticed something odd with my personal e-mail (no spam mails :lol: )I check with my ISP and they advised that i'd set my E-mail to auto forward any incoming mail :roll: to a hotmail account. Soon altered that and associated passwords. Worried though about internet banking etc. etc.
Now i have a full and up to date internet security package from Norton with Firewalls etc. and assumed i was fine
I've informed local police, (no interest, no crime committed, heres a crime number sir :x ), E-bay (no response), Hotmail (will look into it), ISP (must be you're end problem :shock: ) Norton (want £18 to speak to them about it :lol: ).
The guy who was the winning bidder has been great about it and sent me various e-mails from the 3rd party, some of which have e-bay logos and hyper links to e-bay, so look very genuine.
I expect i'll loose my E-bay good name and feedback as a reult of this.
So just wanted to point out that E-bays a nest of vipers and it's way to easy to fall into one of these scams. The thing that alerted the potential buyer to the scam is that they wanted money via western union credit after supplying an e-mail from e-bay saying that the seller was bonded with them as a genuine and bonafide seller and funds were guaranteed etc.
Watch out :shock:
Steve.