chinkamon Posted July 19, 2020 Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 Have you chaps an chapesses seen these ads? I'm sure they must be scam /fake ads? Apologies if not and it's someone on here, But this person has mutiple ads all with same description, a few pics an a slightly different email address on the ads? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e501 Posted July 19, 2020 Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 Yeah its a scam, been doing it a while on various cars, ebay gets rid of them and hes straight back under a different name. You can tell its him because they have a rather odd price.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinkamon Posted July 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 Yea I thought so, and always a low asking price, Is it ever worth reporting these or not?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e501 Posted July 19, 2020 Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 I think he must get reported because suddenly they dissapear from sale, then pop up again under a different user name, does various cars but the ones i notice are ford anglias and mk1 golfs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinkamon Posted July 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 I seen certain yanks too, cos I see these cars think ooo shud I shudnt I, then they're sold an I'm too late, then they reappear under this guise an I'm easily confused so then think hmmm was this the guy sellin it before or not ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huge Posted July 19, 2020 Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 If it’s too good to be true ...it probably IS too good to be true! I say report it via Ebay you dont have to give your details & you could save an OSF member from being scammed! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinkamon Posted July 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 Yes good shout didn't think of that, is it safe to say that all ads in this format are goin to be scams from the same prick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huge Posted July 19, 2020 Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 Often their goal is two fold... 1)Get buyer(s) to send small amount of £££ as a deposit for the item into a bogus bank a/c 2)Establish email contact & over a couple of emails ‘phishing’ gain personal information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinkamon Posted July 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 Bunch of ***** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meXEco Posted July 19, 2020 Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 Easily spottable--they usually hack a legit users account-use a weird starting price (I dunno why they do this?)-then on one of the pics they add contact info (usually a gmail email address or similar) asking to include the item number or specific title of ad ( as they list 10's / 100's of other fake listings too) and not to contact thru Ebay. Also look at other items for sale-usually another 100 cars at ridiculous prices. If you are tempted (don't be) always contact thru Ebay-never send a deposit as would you ever buy a car without seeing it-really? Pisses me off having to scroll thru 50 pages of fake ads when browsing classic car section-Ebay take ages to remove and sometimes can't remove them-dunno why a multi billion pound company can't stop this...And if people do send deposits without actually seeing a car in the flesh well more fool them I say-remember the saying 'buyer beware'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinkamon Posted July 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 Yea sendin a deposit on a car unseen is very much a gamble isn't it, just a good job I can't afford the cars anyway, 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xp197777 Posted July 19, 2020 Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 Cars bikes tractors boats trailers there doing all of them but the worrying thing is they keep doing it which means they must be getting success Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meXEco Posted July 19, 2020 Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 There was an ad on there a couple of weeks ago about a Sapphire Cossie-the ad was written by someone who was after info as the car had been used in a scam advert-and the bloke said at least 3 or 4 people had been stung out of deposits-I honestly couldn't believe this had happened-who would send an unknown person £3000 as a deposit on a car they hadn't seen in the flesh? I was thinking of sending messages to these scam ads or bidding ridiculous amounts-but thought better of it as then they had my user name and could possibly hack my account. If you ask to see the cars they come out with some bullshit about it being their uncles who is out of the country etc etc. send me some money i'll have it delivered lol...fools and their money! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xp197777 Posted July 19, 2020 Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 It must be working or they wouldn’t do it 😩 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveF72 Posted July 19, 2020 Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 They ask you to pay the funds into a holding account that is protected by eBay which gets released to them when you collect the item. They tell you that if you are not happy with the item you will get the funds back from the holding account. Guess what........... you are not covered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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