Written October 15, 2007 in Personal
Scammers nowadays are prolific and brilliant in trying to cheat people out of their hard-earned money. If I wasn’t vigilant, I would have fallen prey to their trickery as well. Luckily, too many things seemed wrong… Lets have a look!
This was the email I got.
from SecondChangeOffer @ eBay. com <huntter23@gmail.com> hide details 15:32 (1 hour ago) reply-to SecondChangeOffer @ eBay. com <huntter23@gmail.com>
to xxxxxxxxxxx
date 15 Oct 2007 15:32 subject eBay Second Chance Offer for Item (330174678676) mailed-by mailout19.yourhostingaccount.com Dear Buyer (xxxxxxx),
I am very sorry for disturbing you, I am the seller of the item title : Apple MacBook Pro 1.83ghz 15.4 inch screen (330174678676)
I need to sell it and the winning bidder said that he is not interested anymore.Let me know if you want to purchase it.Make a resonable offer and we can have a deal.Contact me as soon as possible for more details about closing the transaction ! If you are interested i will wait your reply asap. or contact me at this email : huntter23@gmail.com
Thank you!
It coincided that I was bidding for that particular item, and everything seemed fine. In fact, when I first got the mail, I was pretty excited. But things started to unravel quickly as I took my standard precautions of checking. Did anyone see any thing wrong in the above email (other than the fact I removed my own details with xxxxxxx) ?
from SecondChangeOffer @ eBay. com <huntter23@gmail.com> hide details 15:32 (1 hour ago) reply-to SecondChangeOffer @ eBay. com <huntter23@gmail.com>
to xxxxxxxxxxx
date 15 Oct 2007 15:32 subject eBay Second Chance Offer for Item (330174678676) mailed-by mailout19.yourhostingaccount.com Dear Buyer (xxxxxxx),
I am very sorry for disturbing you, I am the seller of the item title : Apple MacBook Pro 1.83ghz 15.4 inch screen (330174678676)
I need to sell it and the winning bidder said that he is not interested anymore.Let me know if you want to purchase it.Make a resonable offer and we can have a deal.Contact me as soon as possible for more details about closing the transaction ! If you are interested i will wait your reply asap. or contact me at this email : huntter23@gmail.com
Thank you!
See all the highlighted items. This is an expanded header of Gmail. First of all, it was too damn obvious that the email was sent out by huntter23@gmail.com and not by eBay had this been the real case. And the bugger cannot even spell properly. The mail-daemon, which sends out the mail, is also dubious. Lastly, when eBay emails users, they ALWAYS address you by your first name followed by your id in parenthesis, not Buyer (xxxxxxxxxxxx). That because you give your name to eBay, but the scammers have no idea what you are called, so they call you ‘Buyer’. And all correspondance between eBay and me would have appeared in my eBay Inbox, which is not present for this one. Everything bleeped to me, SCAM.
Time to report to eBay!
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4 comments on ' Someone tried to scam me on eBay today. '
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Wow, thank goodness you checked the details. However, I actually use my gmail to send out the emails that are on my own domain. Could this be the case?
Written by precious on October 15, 2007 at 7:27pm
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Thanks for posting this! My husband just got four of those emails today and we found your blog when we were looking into it!
Written by Katherine on November 08, 2007 at 10:38pm
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I purchased a car from a eBay member and got well ripped off and eBay don’t help when it comes to tracking the person down and are happy to allow someone to sell five cars a week and still claim to be a private seller and when they do give you the sellers details they only provide a partial address so you are on your own.
My trouble started with a Mr Garry Horton from Oldbury who is a very over weight gentleman with short graying ginger hair and tattoos and it turns out after a lot of effort on my part that other eBay members had been conned by this man and they had managed to have six of his eBay accounts closed down.
eBay could track his IP address or assist by providing partial details from the person credit card to enable people like me to get a bit of justice but they don’t so it must be assumed they are happy to assist the criminals to keep opening one account after another.
Written by eBay Buyer on November 03, 2008 at 7:26pm
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