Thread: ebay scam?
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Old 05-22-2003, 06:40 PM  
nap
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Originally posted by Living For Today
Well I pretty much knew it was a scam. I was interested in how she was going to scam the money off me.

And the only reason I gave her any credibility was before she got cancelled from ebay she had 990 positive feedback.

do you know how easy it is to get a persons password(epsecially considering on aol you can make an ebay user name at kw:ebay)? havent you seen the scam sites for paypal/ebay/aol? some are very convincing. just think if you spam aol members for ebay accounts and no other isp. 26 million potential ebayers, if you spam 500k in a day at the least 10% will be an ebay seller, and of that 10% at least or less would be an ebay power seller. of that 1% thats more than enough accounts to last for an entire year of doing just high end scams. not to mention that people are actually FALLING for that scam right now. say the guy had 10 people still emailing him, at least 2 out of those 10 will send the 3k. now thats 6k off of a 19.95 first free month aol account. now the scammer has the ability to buy more junk, build up another power seller account(or use a stolen ebay acc.) and do the same scam just under a different category.
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