eBay is filled with scammers *pic*
 

So I bid on a new phone on ebay and I received about 4 emails from other users claiming they are the owner of the item and they wanted to sell it to me, so they sent me this email mockup from ebay saying that I can pay with paypal but the funds wont be secure so I better use WESTERN UNION.

The fact that these fuckers can contact me about an item I am bidding on is risky for novice internet people. I thought GFY scammers were bad..

http://biggerpenissecrets.com/images/ebayscammers.jpg

That sucks, how do they get your e-mail?

You should report it to eBay.

Look at the blue circle I did report it, I dont know how they got my email unless they guessed it from my user ID

That's creepy, I've never heard of that type of scam.

It can confuse you because the emails look authentic and they know what you are bidding on so they steal the pics and put them in the email I really thought I was dealing with the seller... western union gave it away


becareful

thanks for the heads up ;)
 

a nigerian family will not be eating tonight:(

report it to ebay!

damn, that actually looks pretty professional, I'm sure a bunch of suckers would actually fall for that :(

had that happen to me

what phone are you getting?

lol :1orglaugh how true, but how will they ever now that the dude's in jail?

Its the seller that is doing it, he sends the email to you outside of eBay. Thats how they can scam without getting picked up by eBay and thats how they know your email, the exact product and product/invoice number, etc...

Make sense?

Actually, if you have the same or similar e-mail address to your username they will fuck you like that. If your eBay username is OTerror, and your e-mail address is OTerror at gmail, yahoo, or any of the others, they will mail you fake second chance offers if you don't win an auction, not to mention fake offers to complete the original transaction like you got.

i get such mails on an account i never registered at evay :-)

I get like 8 spam emails a day about unpaid ebay items.

I'm sure they've managed to fuck over alot of people who just so happened to be buying something from ebay when they got the spam email.

yup..i get fake ebay emails all the time and when i put one of my watches for sale to see what it might be worth, I got a bunch of those 'escrow' company scams.