ebay scam

[busdennis]

morning
ive just recieved an obvious scam via email giving me a second chance offer on a carbon bike frame i have beening bidding on. the bike went for double my highest bid with several bids between mine and the winner
these are the instruction
Find a corner shop, newsagent, convenience store, supermarket or outlet that has the Payzone Or Paypoint sign.

Ask the shopkeeper for a £ 65.00 UKASH voucher(you can buy and combine 2 or more vouchers if necessary).

Here : http://www.payzone.co.uk/Store-Locator or http://www.paypoint.co.uk/paypointlocator you can find the nearest shop and ask for the UKASH voucher.

Reply to this invoice directly with a readable scan or a photo of the UKASH receipt.

Our department will automatically validate your UKASH voucher. Seller has 2 business days to dispatch the item and provide a tracking number.


the seller as a 1500+ feed back and is a uk seller
has is ebay account been hacked or is it mine. how do i tell ebay?

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Looks like one of those "Click on this link" and share all your computer details with who ever sent it.
I personaly would forward it to ebay without clicking on the ink.

 

[brucers]

You say 'obvious' and I agree but one assumes the fraudster gets enough 'silly, daft, guillable people(call them whatever word you like)' to make it worth their while.

 

[Biker Joe]

More often than not, such an email would go to your spam folder automatically but, occasionally, such emails go to your 'in' box.It depends on the efficiency of the email provider's filter system. I have two email accounts. One (gmail) is very good at filtering out spam but the other (yahoo) is not so good at all and I only use it as a back up.
I would have sent it straight to my spam folder without opening it and left it at that. But that's just me and I've never had any problems doing that.
Unfortunately, there are people who are not as aware, as has already been said, and somebody, somewhere, will fall for it.
My policy with emails is,' If in doubt chuck it out.'
I'm no expert in these matters but I'm sure others will give you their views on this subject and all of us may learn something.
I'm glad you spotted it.

 

[summerdays]

Not being really knowledgeable about these things but the thing where you send a photo of the receipt is the moment you hand over your money. They just need the code off there don't they to redeem the money.

 

[Chris S]

I don't know about UKASH but I know you can cash in Western Union transfers by just giving them the number on the receipt.

Not being really knowledgeable about these things but the thing where you send a photo of the receipt is the moment you hand over your money. They just need the code off there don't they to redeem the money.

 

[brucers]

I go with 'Biker Joe' on this....if in doubt throw it out, especially unsolicited ones. Further on from that, if you get one (seemingly) from your bank for example don't act in it via that email. Go seperately to the bank (website, phone branch) and query it's authenticity.

Same goes for phone calls. My mum got call from someone saying they were from Sky and were offering to reduce her payments but they needed her bank details. She got her bank card out and I queried the call which I'd caught snippets of. I told her to ask for the persons tel number and for them to send a letter. We never heard from them again!! Same advice applies as above get seperate verification.

 

[Crankarm]

Congratulations! You have won 25 billion drachma in the Greek National Lottery. To claim your winnings please send $250 US dollars by Western Union Money transfer .......................

 

[Ningishzidda]

We are a popular television broadcasting corporation in the United Kingdom and are collecting money for our own charity. Phone this number to donate £5.

 

[Goldcoast]

Had this type of scam on gumtree, was asking the seller some questions on the bike, Could tell instantly they were a scam when they mentioned payzone.

They had the bike for sale for £1100 but I kept getting them to drop the price eventually got the down to £450 but when they thought they were going to get lucky I told them I couldn't possibly only pay £450 for such a valuable bike. I would feel to guilty then reported to gumtree.

 

[Manonabike]

I recently had an experience on ebay which I reported as suspicious

I was bidding for an item well before the finishing date and everytime I put a bid you could almost guarantee that a higher bid would come within a couple of hours well, I put the last bid about 1 minute from the end. I was outbid right away and the final price took the item beyond those items being sold as "buy it now" by the same seller - the suspicious thing is that within two minutes I got a second chance offer .How did the seller know that the winner was no good within a minute of auction finishing?

 

[Psycolist]

There are some shockingly dishonest people in the world, and most of them seem to use the internet. E Bay is riddled with scams and fraudsters, well done for spotting this one. The shame of it is that there is no way of screening out the bad apples. Some seem to thrive on coning people, others will bend the rules to make an extra shilling, and alot of sellers are fine upstanding citizens wishing to sell genuine goods. I love E Bay, use it ALOT, to buy and sell, and I use the premis when buying that if it seems too good to be true, IT IS too good to be true. Wot I can never fathom out is when you see stuff advertised with no reserve price, but it has got just one bid on it that is for roughly what the item is worth. If I list some thing for £1 or some such low price, and somebody sticks a bid of £50 on it , it will show as one bid of £1, not £50. How do the scammers do that ??

 

[CopperCyclist]

There are some shockingly dishonest people in the world, and most of them seem to use the internet. E Bay is riddled with scams and fraudsters, well done for spotting this one. The shame of it is that there is no way of screening out the bad apples. Some seem to thrive on coning people, others will bend the rules to make an extra shilling, and alot of sellers are fine upstanding citizens wishing to sell genuine goods. I love E Bay, use it ALOT, to buy and sell, and I use the premis when buying that if it seems too good to be true, IT IS too good to be true. Wot I can never fathom out is when you see stuff advertised with no reserve price, but it has got just one bid on it that is for roughly what the item is worth. If I list some thing for £1 or some such low price, and somebody sticks a bid of £50 on it , it will show as one bid of £1, not £50. How do the scammers do that ??

Start price at 49 pound perhaps?

It's how I use eBay when I sell. I put no reserve price on, and the starting price is the minimum I'd actually let the thing go for. I'd rather have one low bid win, that get loads of bids that never go above my reserve. At least this way the buyer knows they bid, they get it!

 

[Davidc]

Report it - ebay are well clued up on getting scammers caught.

 

[Psycolist]

Start price at 49 pound perhaps?

It's how I use eBay when I sell. I put no reserve price on, and the starting price is the minimum I'd actually let the thing go for. I'd rather have one low bid win, that get loads of bids that never go above my reserve. At least this way the buyer knows they bid, they get it!

Yeah, I guess that could be it, I think of 'no reserve' meaning a low start, but thats not what it actually means is it. 49 times out of 50 I start my stuff at 99p and I usually find that if its worth £10, I get about £10, Sometimes more, sometimes less but I dont often loose out to any degree. It does puzzle me when the odd item makes more than you can go and get it at a 'buy now' price elsewhere. Sometimes, people just love to bid !