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massive fraud discovered

be aware of an account listing items for sale with low bids and an image declaring all bids will be deleted and not to contact them through ebay's contact system. They include an email address in the image, and all listings are priced $3000 in that same image. For an example search for  and select the 2 dollar listing. then check out the other items for sale. Hundreds of listings done the same way for a fantastic array of products coming from a motor bike enthusiast in the netherlands. Reported come listings but it seems ebay has no interest in being contacted about suspected fraud listings.

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Such scams have been going on for many years.

 

Use the "Report item" link present in every listing to bring it to eBay's attention. eBay will not always react to a single individual report, and the listings may not disappear immediately, but eBay will remove the listings.

 

Scammers will create new accounts or hijack old ones and use those accounts to list dozens or even hundreds of such listings. By embedding email address and other descriptions in a photo, the scammer attempts to evade eBay's text-based detection.

 

The scammer hopes to collect email addresses from interested buyers that respond to be able to contact them even after eBay has removed the listing and then to complete the scam over email.

 

Potential buyers should be aware of how eBay works, and should avoid any listing that seeks to direct the buyer into an off-eBay transaction which would lack any protection, or any listing that appears too-good-to-be-true. eBay does not allow buyer and seller to exchange contact information prior to payment for just this reason.

 

Here is an example of one such scam listing description from many years ago when it was possible to send a message to a seller directly via a link in the item description:

 

ebay-hijack-listing.jpg

 

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Could be a hijacked account, looks like it.

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well, yes its a hijacked account, but ebay has been historically bad at giving people a way to report these things outside of adding stuff to some report queue to get looked at a few days later.

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Have you considered reporting the listing to the Netherlands eBay?

Not that the scammer is there either, but the lines for looking at reports would be shorter.

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Call ebay and ask for Trust & Safety dept.....for a possible hijacked account........  that used to work to get something down fast......

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It appears that the hijacked account has been restored to the original user -- the phony listings have all been taken down, and the current listings now seem to match the previous description of the seller's profile.

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@packus_rattus wrote:

Reported come listings but it seems ebay has no interest in being contacted about suspected fraud listings.


@packus_rattus 

 

Guess you jumped the gun on that assessment.

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