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I was wondering if anyone can give me any feedback about this military scam? We contacted each other and I made payments and now I haven’t received my car. I was wondering if anyone who has been in this situation to contact me please, I have some questions 

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If you found the car on Craigs list or Facebook and paid for the car with gift cards after you got a fake e-mail from the scammer that looked like it was from ebay, and never saw the car in person, I'm sorry but you have been scammed. Your money is gone and there is no car.

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Let me guess,,,,,you found a car on Facebook Marketplac, Craigslist  or another non eBay  site and they said eBay was handling the payment. You gave this unknown person your name and email and they sent you a fake invoice wanting you to buy gift cards. There's no car. There's no inspection period. There's no warehouse. eBay doesn't store or ship anything. eBay doesn't handle vehicle payments. The email and phone connect to the scammer. Did you read the eBay gift card FAQS and terms?  I'm sorry you were scammed. There's scam warnings all over the place.

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You have been scammed.  My guess is that you found a great deal on another site (craiglist, facebook marketplace, letgo, offerup, et al) and the "seller" told you the transaction would be "completed" on eBay "for your protection."

The seller then tells you that he/she is deployed but the vehicle is at the eBay shipping center ready to ship at no cost to you.  It should arrive in 2 days, 3 days tops.  You then have 5 days to decide if you want to keep it and only then will the money be released to the seller.   If you don't want the vehicle after trying it for 5 days, shipping back to seller is free also.   You received a fake invoice with eBay logos on it.  You were instructed to pay with gift cards (untraceable, just like cash).  You gave the "seller" the gift card numbers.  Your money is gone.  There is no vehicle.  Just pictures the scammer got off the internet.  

First rule:  If it sounds too good to be true, it is.  If the seller was a real seller and actually had a vehicle that nice at that super low price, he could sell it in an afternoon locally. No need to put it on the internet.  

Next rule:  All legitimate eBay transactions BEGIN and END on eBay.  Period.  No exceptions.  

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@aalguti-36 wrote:

 I was wondering if anyone who has been in this situation to contact me please, I have some questions 


Nope, not me. I know better that someone selling a $5000 or $6000 car for $1200 or $1400 with free shipping and a 5 or 10 day money back guaranty is a fraud.

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Didn't you wonder why it was priced at almost half of its retail market value?  Would you have contacted the seller had it been listed at market retail value? I rather doubt it. Scammers know this, so they price things to make your mouth water.

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"sheep greed"

 

I raised sheep a while back and they would try to grab anything another sheep was chewing on, just to beat them out. One time I found a sheep dead with most of a long yellow plastic rope swallowed whole.

 

the greed is based upon "I gotta get it before the next person".

 

so, free shipping and return, try it for a week, crippled-widow-soldier story, 20% of Blue-book, eBay's got your back, Long John Silver's gift cards required to purchase.....how can you lose?

 

HURRY DUMASS - DON'T MISS IT!

 

remember, half of humanity has a double digit IQ

 

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