Fraudster are more daring than ever

More Ebay Spoofs

[Harry]

For the last few months, a "customer" has been emailing me about their Ebay order. The problem is, I have not sold anything on Ebay or posted anything in over three years... And neither have I had my account spoofed. And neither does the email where I receive the messages is linked to my Ebay account...

Now the fraud, who complains that he's been waiting for his product for the last three months says he will report me to the police....

What kind of world are we living into, when the fraudster threaten to report the honest folks to the police?

I never bothered clicking on any of the links as I can see they are not from Ebay - even though they "seem" to come from Ebay.

Gees

[chodges84]

lol,

I just checked my e-mail and I had one as well. He's paid me for the laptop and says that if i don't reply he'll go to the Police.

I can even see the email address he sent it from.

What a muppett.

[chodges84]

oh yeah,

It also says 'This message was sent when the auction was still active' (so how come he has paid me for it!?) and the end date was 1st March and the e-mail was sent on the second, so how can the item still be active.

The user name has been NARU'd as well.

Try doing a search for the item number as a Guy has set up an auction to warn people whats happening. Top man.

[lorax]

Today must have been the day to launch that one because I got it too - didn't even bother to open it up.

Can't quite figure out the racket though. Surely they don't expect me to send them a laptop? Is the game to get me to contact them and settle for some lesser sum of $?

[chodges84]

Don't know, but I hovered over the link, and it definately wasn't linking to eBay. My *guess* is that it's the usual, sign in and get your password type of scam.

[ispy]

Please elaborate on how the customer paid for their item and request proof of purchase. Did they use PayPal?