fraud/scam reported

[bevchar-57]

Ok need to send some more information regarding the fraud/scam report I made regrading a car found on eBay motors a couple weeks ago. I have some of the emails from them and want to send to help get my money back.  My name is Beverly Charlton and the scam number is SR# 1-162774258926. All the links that have been sent to me is not working the only one ythat did work from the start I deleted so need something that will work my email is, berguittiacharlton@hotmail.com and new phone # is 704-210-8972. Thank You Beverly Charlton!

[bevchar-57]

Yes

[mr.elmwood]

That contact phone number, Google search, goes to someone totally different.

[marinermikes]

Wow. It's worse here than I thought. I have heard of this before. EBay figured it out it was a fraudulent listing and took it down after you bought it. You no longer have it in your purchased items and EBay left you holding the bag. Pretty much getting rid of all evidence. I wouldn't have done this either but a screen shot of the item with the item number might have been helpfull. Although you should have never used gift cards it still isn't right.

EBay more and more is pulling these types of stunts. It's either ruling against you when it's a open and shut case of fraud or what just happened to you.  Not sure where you should go from here.

[atikovi]

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@bevchar-57 wrote:

if items cannot be paid with gift cards then why are they sold in stores.

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Gift cards were created years ago for people who were too lazy to shop for actual gifts but didn't want to seem crass by giving cash as a gift. They were never meant to be used for transactions although it has morphed to that.

[marinermikes]

You must have opened a email related to the sale that took you off site to that fake page.

[mr.elmwood]

^^^^ EXACTLY what Mike says.

You got directed to a fake page, fake site, fake emails. 

[ripsmc]

You were scammed by a fake eBay page. Your money is gone forever with no hope of getting it back.

Gift cards are NOT meant to be used for major purchases like a car. The warnings against this are all over the place.

My sister in TX works in administration for CVS pharmacies. It's been such a problem that they've told employees that if anyone comes in to buy say 2000 dollars worth of gift cards they should question them as to whether or not it's being used for a  car. If the answer is yes they warn them of the scam.

Unfortunately, there's a percentage of people who will ignore that warning and shoot themselves in the foot anyway.

I should add that about a dozen years ago someone created almost a 1000 fake auctions under my eBay ID. I caught it a week later and to eBay's credit they shut down the account and removed them.

The big unknown is how many people fell for those scams before they were taken down; no doubt cursing my maternal heritage all the way once reality set in.