suspicious activity

[wooftank]

I was looking up animated figures by Gemmy and came across this very weird listing on a hamster , it started out at 19.99 and then someone bid it to $8000 , last I looked it was $9009 , put "Gemmy Industries “ I Got Sunshine” Animated Dancing Hamster Cupid " in the search, probably money laundering or human trafficking, what else would explain this?

[nobody*s_perfect]

More likely it's just sport bidders who have no intention of paying that inflated price.

[lacemaker3]

Scammers producing "evidence" of fake selling prices, to support inflated values that can then be reported on fake blogs titled something like "25 things in your house that are worth a fortune".

The ultimate aim: to fool optimistic sellers, who will then be targeted with fake payment schemes, and/or tricked into including gift cards for an increased payment. But, they will be asked to provide the gift card numbers by email in order to "release the payment".

[lacemaker3]

The listing has now ended, so it is shown in eBay sold-listings-search as having been sold for $9,009.00.

But according to Terapeak, it has not been paid for. This is how the scammers create false/fake so-called "evidence" for sales that never actually happened. Clear evidence for how the scammers create false/fake data for sales that did not happen.