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can yall give me some help so I gave my name address and phone number to a lady to give to eBay motors to email me the information and everything and I received a email within the hr and the form of payment is eBay cards and I take a picture of the back of the cards with receipt and email to that email correct?
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inceptions
Mentor2 years ago@rawea-15
STOP!!!
This is a common scam, and you are dealing with a criminal who is trying to steal your money.
eBay has nothing to do with listings on other sites. If the item isn't listed on the eBay website and if you don't purchase it through the eBay listing, the transaction has nothing to do with eBay.
You can read eBay's warning here:
http://pages.motors.ebay.com/buy/security/index.html
You can read the FBI's warning here:
https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-scams-and-crimes/online-vehicle-sale-fraud
Read about eBay gift card scams here:
https://pages.ebay.com/ebaygiftcard/
You can report the listing to the site where you found it.
rawea-15
OP2 years agoThank you so much! I’ve never dealt with anything on eBay before so I was unsure thank you for reassuring now I don’t have to feel bad for turning down what I believed to be a elderly lady selling her husbands car since he passed so much help and best possible answer thank you again
glorybells
·2 years ago@rawea-15 ,
the story the scammers give is almost always the same:
* supposed to be a “woman†( while it’s really probably a beefy guy smoking over his keyboard in Nigeria).
* there’s always a sob story (husband/son died at it brings bad memories, soldier about to be quickly deployed, getting divorced and don’t need it)
* the vehicle is always unavailable to be seen (usually they’ll say ebay already has it, when in reality ebay doesn’t have warehouses and never ships ANYTHING)
* they always want payment in eBay/Apple/Vannila cards (because gift cards are untraceable and your money can’t be recovered).
inceptions
Mentor2 years ago@rawea-15
You're very welcome. I just hate it that so many people lose their money this was to these scammers.
Don't feel bad about turning down a little old lady. This is a criminal who does this for a living and is no lady. Con artist's always have a sob story and they know how to take advantage of people with no conscience and no shame.
Glad you came here to ask!
rock.star
·2 years agoScam! SCAM, SCAM!
EBay has nothing to do with anything you may see on some other website.
It is all lies and there is no car, truck, or whatever.
rawea-15
OP2 years agoThank you so much huge help!