using ebay BEWARE

littlenige



Joined: 24/12/2006
Posts: 3594

Message Posted:
05/09/2008 10:12

If you use ebay please beware,I won a lot on there te other day paid via pay pal and recieved confirmation from ebay and paypal all had gone through ok. then i got the email below my details have been removed ( on here ) I checked wih my paypal ccount and the monies had been transfered.



So i reported the email to both paypal and ebay both confirmed it is a spoof email and ar investigating. it looked very very genuine.





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From: eBay

Date: 03/09/2008 17:18:00

To: a user@isp.net

Subject: Action required: Your payment needs to be resent





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Your payment needs to be resent









Hello xxxxxxxxx ,





Sorry, your recent PayPal payment did not go through. As a result, the item(s) below have not received payment.

Please return to eBay to resubmit your payment again.





Please complete payment for the items below:

Archos 705 WiFi plus Docking Station and Much More.....

ITEM #320293419388

Date ended: September 3, 2008



Price: £240.00

Get Your Item



click to confirm postage, get total price and arrange payment.









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jakki



Joined: 23/10/2007
Posts: 865

Message Posted:
05/09/2008 10:21

I had this once but chose to ignore the e-mails that were sent to me requesting that I send the item that they had 'won' through Buy It Now. You have to look very closely at the e-mails, I found spelling mistakes etc. But I have to hand it to eBay though, their systems realized a fraud was taking place and removed my item (a Cartier watch) from the listing. However, I still received e-mails telling me to send the watch to Nigeria. Do these silly Nigerian people think that they can get away with it???

kitty1


Joined: 15/03/2007
Posts: 683

Message Posted:
05/09/2008 10:24

Thanks for the warning Nige. I must admit I've USUALLY had no problems with Ebay...did have one slightly iffy incident last year but luckily I got my money back.



It's always good to be in the know though, so cheers again.



K x

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
05/09/2008 10:49

Thanks littlenige , just E-mailed all i know to report this . Cheers

MaggieAndBernie



Joined: 26/07/2008
Posts: 2012

Message Posted:
05/09/2008 11:18

HI all,

So can you buy stuff on Ebay and get them sent to NC? That would be a bonus as I'm a bit of an ebay addict and was wondering how I'll cope without it!

littlenige



Joined: 24/12/2006
Posts: 3594

Message Posted:
05/09/2008 11:24

Maggie&Bernie,



I am not sure about getting it sent here, I have friends ( yes i do have some ) that are comming out in a couple of weeks and they have kindly said they would bring it for me.

chick


Joined: 02/07/2008
Posts: 323

Message Posted:
05/09/2008 11:30

Hi Maggie& B



My son livs in Denmark and is an Ebay Fan, sellers will not accept any currency

so basicly you have to have a UK address and a Mum who pays till whenever.

MaggieAndBernie



Joined: 26/07/2008
Posts: 2012

Message Posted:
05/09/2008 11:31

Ah I see! oh well never mind - the sunshine will compensate - when I think of it I sit here buying c**p on ebay when the weather is too bad to be out in the garden so in sunney NC I won't need it.



I have that MP3 to tape thing for you Nige, and I'll be there 1 week tomorrow - woopee! Let me know where you may be on the Sun or Mon and I'll find you.

Maggie

orangekazzie



Joined: 31/07/2007
Posts: 1091

Message Posted:
05/09/2008 11:36

Just something I find useful when receiving the masses of spam like this.

Hover over the url link which is always included and check in the bottom left hand corner of your screen. It should give the actual pathname of where you will end up. If it doesn't look right then copy and paste the link into the url bar at the top of your page. Better still never follow links in pages unless you are certain of the destination.

Karen

Coachie



Joined: 29/07/2008
Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
05/09/2008 12:30

I have e-mails from e-bay about this scam and they say i f the e-mail does not begin with your user i.d. ignore it and report to e- bay immediately.

jackeen


Joined: 25/06/2008
Posts: 222

Message Posted:
05/09/2008 19:41

Hi Nige, Sorry to hear about your bad luck. I received emails supposedly from e-bay saying that I had won goods and they needed to verify my details, I hadn't even bid on goods so it was a surprise to me. The only contact I had had with e-bay was LOOKING at items, yes, I have bought in the past with no problems but nowadays you have to be very careful before opening up emails. All of my Hotmail account and contact details was stolen a few months ago. Yes, it does happen,messages in my follders, the lot. My contacts received emails supposedly from me selling things. Luckily nearly everyone realised that the emails looked dodgy and not something from me and never opened them up. Just be on your guard Nige.