I found and reported a new scam I found on ebay. You click on a auction
gallery picture and it takes you to a fake ebay sign up page, damn
slick. Ebay wants to talk to me about some part time work doing this
crap, sounds like a cake job to do while surfing. <g>

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64 R2 4 speed Challenger (Plain Wrapper)
63 R2 4 speed GT Hawk
63 Daytona convert.
62 Lark 2 door
60 Hawk
53 coupe rod.
Apparently others have already noticed. Other forums I frequent have
new threads with warnings about the new scams.
On last nights local news, they were interviewing three guys that lost
money on a 'lonely hearts' scam. Want-to-be-brides from Russia or
Nigeria, conning guys out of money. One even sent fake money orders
for they guy to buy her a ticket. Same exact routine they were trying
to use to buy cars, except they are targeting a much more vulnerable
group. (Old lonely guys) Careful John, they may actually hook you on
that one, as careful as you are! <g> KK
> I found and reported a new scam I found on ebay. > JP/Maryland
I saw that last night as well as a '57 Chevy Custom and a '70 Hemi 'Cuda for
$6000 each with BIN.
Unless E-Bay can start stopping this sort of thing before it happens, I
wouldn't be surprised to see E-Bay starting down a downward slide. It seems
that there is more and more account hijacking and now people are raising
concerns about PayPal, and if peoples checking accounts are going to be
affected, I can't help but feel many are going to begin canceling their
E-Bay and PayPal accounts.
Another reason is because Google is starting a similar auction site and
payment is with Google Bucks (or something like that). E-Bay needed some
competition, I don't think they wanted Google though.
As someone who had his E-Bay account hijacked last month, I seriously
thought about canceling my accounts. I also work in IT and read yesterday
about a university IT class on network security where the professor's
assignment was for his students to go out on the internet, find a potential
target and to attempt to hack into the site while providing documented
details of how they did it and what they did once inside. So not only do we
have rogue hackers, we now have universities using the commercial internet
as a live testing facility. http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1155
Lee
>I found and reported a new scam I found on ebay. You click on a auction
>gallery picture and it takes you to a fake ebay sign up page, damn slick.
>Ebay wants to talk to me about some part time work doing this crap, sounds
>like a cake job to do while surfing. <g>
John Poulos - 01 Mar 2006 14:51 GMT
Posted this on the ebay NG and copied it to ebay (I'll send yours too
I'm a full time buyer and seller of collectible cars on ebay and
active in several related news groups and web sites. Folks often point
out suspicious auctions to report to ebay since I have a account rep and
phone number. It's become more and more frustrating trying to do ebay
work when I have to jump through hoops to help them.
Just yesterday I was pointed to a 50K collector car auction with a
"e-mail me" me Buy it Now of $2900. I called ebay and they quickly
pulled the auction. A few hours later the same car was up with a
different hijacked account so I tried calling again to report it and
dealer support was closed so I went to the "live Help" link and reported
it. Hours pass, The guys auction is still up with maybe 10 other cars
added to his list of cars for sale at silly prices. I decide to fire
off a letter to trust and safety and I wait. While waiting I notice
another have dozen hijacked account car auctions, so I report them. One
even links you to a fake sign up page when you click on a gallery picture.
After waiting a total of about 8 hours for the auction to be killed, I
recall that I have a phone number for 24 hour support and call that. The
nice lady tells me at midnight last night that my request will be
"expedited" and not to worry because no one will have a chance to wire
the guy money before they get around to killing all the listings !
I wake up this A.M. just to see the same auctions up after nearly a
day and call yet again. This time I demanded a supervisor call me when
they get in to work.
It's bad enough that ebay expects it's "family" to help police
fraud, but I refuse to jump through hoops to help.
> I saw that last night as well as a '57 Chevy Custom and a '70 Hemi 'Cuda for
> $6000 each with BIN.
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JP/Maryland
Studebaker On the Net http://stude.com
My Ebay items:http://www.stude.com/EBAY/
64 R2 4 speed Challenger (Plain Wrapper)
63 R2 4 speed GT Hawk
63 Daytona convert.
62 Lark 2 door
60 Hawk
53 coupe rod.
Mark Anderson - 01 Mar 2006 19:54 GMT
As far as I'm concerned, today is the day Ebay went in the sh.tter.
Mark
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