Possible Scammer Targeting Sold Listings

[atomicupcycle]

Hello,

I sold 3 expensive items to a person with over 1k possitive feedback, who buys items like the ones he purchased. All is good there. However, a brand new account made today, zero feedback, emailed me about one of the items sold, and gave me an overseas address to ship the item too. 

" I just bought xxxxxxxx from you I hope all is great with that item.. p.s I wanna change shipping address coz my dad got sick and I have to move out of town to hospital to take care, sorry for bothering and here is the shipping u have to send it:
First Name: 
Last Name: 
Address: 
Address 2: 
City: Newark
State/Province: DE "

What the person doesn't realize, is that the actual buyer purchased 3 items from me. Not just one and they were different items 🙂 

Please be aware of this scam and i'm waiting for ebay to call me back.   Always ship to a verifide address through ebay. 

[penguins_dont_fly]

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@jonathankirkland wrote:

This is at least the 3rd thread I've seen now about who I believe to be the exact same scammer, since the ship to city matches and so does the lame "my dad is in the hospital so I have to move" excuse.

This guy must be a really pathetic low-life, and while I don't wish any harm on anyone, I just hope karma catches up to this bottom feeder.

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I'm pretty sure that the excuse is a copy/paste from some boiler room script...and that this isn't one "guy". I'm also willing to bet that (some of) these folks don't speak/read English ... Newark, DE is a hotspot for freight forwarders favored by Russians and Eastern Europeans.

On some scammer website, in Cyrillic, are the instructions on "how to get free stuff on eBay".

[thingsoldandnew10]

Isn't that the reason Pay Pal  developed the requiremnt to ship only to the ship to address on the payment? The scam of shipping to another address by a crook is that old - as old as the internet.

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@emerald40 wrote:

Old scam where scammers surf ebay looking for sold listings hoping you will mail it to them at the new address.

That is why you never send anything to an address other than what is on the paypal account.

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