Can eBay accept a scam report for a FAKE listing?

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Obvious scam listing; "excellent condition" 2005 Fleetwood camper, 25 ft. long (no slide). $ 1,000.00.

"seller" says they "tuned over" the item to eBay for selling / transporting / handling "everything" & via email, sent me a .pdf that has very good quality (but obvious to most people) instructions for going to a retail store to purchase an eBayor Apple Pay prepad card & then "pay" for the listed item. I asked 3x for a physical location to confirm the photos are identical to the actual item ("cannot trust pics for a proper representation") & no response to that request. Again, every single thing from the stupid low cost to the other responses says "scam". (they also said "I have moved back to my hometown" (1,000+ miles away) "...so that is why I have turned this transaction over to eBay to handle everything for me".

I obviously have the sender's email address & their .pdf (that I cannot attach a screenshot of because this forum doesn't accept them), however my question is this: Because eBay obviously would receive legitimately hundreds (or more) of reports per day) do they even care anymore unless it is a genuine listing gone sour due to legitimate buyer / seller issues?

If anyone is interested in seeing the .pdf & related email, I can be reached (though my heavily spam laden account... its over 25 years old) hook_em_Texas_horns ----> yahoo

Should I just ignore this & delete /move on? The other part of me wants to screw with them either find a way to reverse scam THEM or simply waste their time.

hook_em_t43

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Posted 2 years ago·Last reply 2 years ago

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eburtonlab

Mentor2 years ago

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do they even care anymore

It is not a question of eBay caring.

The fact is that there is little that eBay can do about anonymous scammers posting want ads on other sites. The ads themselves make no mention about eBay nor provide any details about the scam itself. The details are only shared via email once contact has been made via a throwaway email address.

twinkling.smile

·2 years ago

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@hook_em_t43

An option is to report the listing to Facebook. That is at least something.

And then move on indeed.