Scam alert - Scammer 'eBay, emailed using 'eBay' subject

[befree15]

Hi, 

Just reporting that I have someone emailing me, using 'eBay, ' as her name regarding an item I am selling. 

She repeatedly keeps saying to post urgently, that shes paid through paypal and sent me a paypal screenshot but I have not received any payment through paypal or  ebay. The messages aren't even through ebays inbox.

I said i would not sell, shes hounding me, I said I will wait to receive official confirmation from paypal and ebay until I post and told her that I think shes a scammer and that I will report her. Shes now threatening to report me if i dont post the item. 

I don't believe for a second that shes a true buyer. 

[sin-n-dex]

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@blu_owlie wrote:

Alternatively.... keep responding to waste her time so she doesn't target someone who actually will fall for it.

Baiting scammers can be fun if done correctly.

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It an also result in a nut who bids on all your auctions up to the moon so that no one else can possibly win them.

I didn't bait a scammer, but I prevented a scammer from completing his scam and became the target of auction interference. (I was calling every day to get the latest ID shut down, what shut him down was me going to Europe for a few weeks and he'd moved on by the time I got home).

C.

[barmenchik]

Hello everyone. Same here today...

mrssmah4444@hotmail.com

Hello,
If I buy it now, Can you post via Royal Mail Next Day Special Delivery Guaranteed 1pm?

I will pay for the postage, please reply with the FINAL price to pay by PayPal.
Thank 

New message from: 20in02(232)

[presnalsjp]

I also just got the 'eBay, Madeline Harrison' email the other day - concerning a watch sale.

[fab_finds4u]

About 10 yrs ago I found a tutorial that showed you how to maka fake PayPal screenshot. It's easy to find. 

Report the buyer was trying to pay with fake funds.

[chrismadeley]

same for me,

received a direct email from 'eBay, Madeline Harrison <mrssmah4444@hotmail.com>'

asking to buy my phone directly. It had all the eBay item details in the email & was asking to send it Royal Mail next day signed for.

[presnalsjp]

She certainly wants to buy a lot of stuff - from my watch to cameras to phones, and more! And from the UK - and probably from elsewhere.

[soh.maryl]

Anyone care that the original message here was from March?  

[jacqbri2000_uk]

This happened to me also only the name has changed to Harry Madison with the same email.

Scammer was after a P40 I have for sale; I've sent them a postage receipt for an old broken Iphone 6 instead as a play along ... shipping address was a place in Belfast.

[firalasa-0]

You may wish to create an alternate email to use just for ebay...

The one I use I rarely log into, granted I have a credit card on file that pays for everything so then I don't need it for anything except login information, maybe one or two other things, small stuff because anything truly pertinent will be delivered through ebay messages.

Do that and the 'eBay' scammers can spam their little hearts out.

[sellstuff89]

Same email received today by 

mrssmah4444@hotmail.com

No message on the actual ebay website, coming from ebay UK  

Email was listed as

eBay, Madison Harry mrssmah4444@hotmail.com

Asking me to confirm the final price etc, just screams scam over and over again

[portkoop-0]

Can you mark the email as "junk?"

[portkoop-0]

More than likely someone hacked into tonysmith's account, I'm not sure on the exact process but it happens with fair frequency... You have to understand, a lot of people (I'm going to say probably half) use insecure passwords, probably one out of 10 or so use passwords such as "abcdefgh" or "12345678" and then the really crafty ones use "876543210abc" thinking that won't get hacked so easily...

Sooner or later these scammers, they find what I will call dormant accounts, such as ones that have no recent feedback... They somehow figure out the userID / password combination that logs them in... And once in ebay they can then ply their craft.

Might even be possible to buy such an account on the dark web.

The problem isn't the account, the problem is the mindset behind the new owner.

Once a crook always a crook they say, I know it can be very hard to get away from that.

[the_geeky_it_one]

Had the very same one yesterday.

I have had a great deal of fun trolling them.  Did a lookup against their "account".. seems they are in Germany.

They were asking me to send the item... a Dell server no less that weighs about 50kg via Royal Mail Next Day Guaranteed pre 1PM.  I've asked them to add £430 onto the price of the item for next day courier.  Of course they then told me that they were "in Germany at the moment" and that I was to ship the unit to their "cousin" at some Slough postcode.   I've asked if this is their "cousin's" home address.... If they confirm it is, I'll be asking why their "cousin" lives on an industrial estate... Thanks Google Maps!! 😄  

If this person is looking in, thank you for making lockdown more bearable.  It has been a delight stringing you along.  At least I'll have wasted some of your time and you'll not be bothering some poor old dear...