Massive scam going down on eBay I got caught out costing alot of money, allow me to explain...
I was searching eBay for an Alienware laptop and I find one for £700 "Pre Approved Bidders Only" the description of the item was convincing with pictures and everything, I then read on and It says if you wish to buy one of my brand new laptops contact me on "[email protected]" So I email him and he emails back within 30 mins asking saying:
Hello there,
I am glad that you are interested in my Brand New laptops.
The price for one is 700 GBP and it includes SHIPPING CHARGES.
Just to let you know that I am locat ed in Piraeus/Greece (Europe) and I´ll ship my laptops from here on my expense.
The laptops are brand new in their unnopened and still sealed boxes.Comes with waranty supported by the manufacter and it is availabe worldwide.
I have three( 3) Sony Vaio VGN-A290 and (3) Alienware Area51m 7700 17"P4 HT 3.4Ghz 2GB 256MB 200GB.
All laptops are for sale at 700 GBP EACH, all of them brand new.
The laptops will be shipped using DHL and it will be dellivered to your door in 3 days tops.
For payment, I would like to use an eBay third company to protect us both.
Dellivery : 3 working days
Price : 700 GBP Shipping Included
Please let me know if you are interested and i will provide the payment and shipping method.
Best regards,
Zhe Zang
I think this sounds great so emailed him back saying id like to buy one so he said in his next email that he would contact Square Trade to arrange Elscrow for the money and the item, I then recieved an email from Square Trade saying that they had been prompted by one of there users and to should go to the nearest Western Union company and send £700 to the follow member details and then reply to this email with your MTCN number and a few more bits of information, so I did and then I have an invoice from Western Union with all the information i then replyed to the email with all the information and he also said in his email to say its not got goods/service its simply for a family friend so I said to Western Union it was for a family friend....
I recieved emails from him saying laptop has been sent and so on 7 days later it has yet to arrive and no more contact from them Square Trade email and not from him and I decided to scan the emails and it turns out both are fakes, It turns out that the Yahoo one is real but all his information is fake but the Square Trade email was a very clever setup he had designed the email so it looked perfectly like the real Square Trade email's and then used some anomolous email program to send an email with any address he choose, he used "[email protected]"....
Issue is I was done out of eBay so cant claim my money, The real square trade dont even do Elscrow service's and its out of there hands and as for the Police they couldnt give a crap.... Yet I have his IP address as i scanned the yahoo email and I found out he is on AOL and not from greece like he said and also Im gonna gibve the IP to the police see if they can do anything... :bang:
The Square Trade fake emails look like this....!
I was searching eBay for an Alienware laptop and I find one for £700 "Pre Approved Bidders Only" the description of the item was convincing with pictures and everything, I then read on and It says if you wish to buy one of my brand new laptops contact me on "[email protected]" So I email him and he emails back within 30 mins asking saying:
Hello there,
I am glad that you are interested in my Brand New laptops.
The price for one is 700 GBP and it includes SHIPPING CHARGES.
Just to let you know that I am locat ed in Piraeus/Greece (Europe) and I´ll ship my laptops from here on my expense.
The laptops are brand new in their unnopened and still sealed boxes.Comes with waranty supported by the manufacter and it is availabe worldwide.
I have three( 3) Sony Vaio VGN-A290 and (3) Alienware Area51m 7700 17"P4 HT 3.4Ghz 2GB 256MB 200GB.
All laptops are for sale at 700 GBP EACH, all of them brand new.
The laptops will be shipped using DHL and it will be dellivered to your door in 3 days tops.
For payment, I would like to use an eBay third company to protect us both.
Dellivery : 3 working days
Price : 700 GBP Shipping Included
Please let me know if you are interested and i will provide the payment and shipping method.
Best regards,
Zhe Zang
I think this sounds great so emailed him back saying id like to buy one so he said in his next email that he would contact Square Trade to arrange Elscrow for the money and the item, I then recieved an email from Square Trade saying that they had been prompted by one of there users and to should go to the nearest Western Union company and send £700 to the follow member details and then reply to this email with your MTCN number and a few more bits of information, so I did and then I have an invoice from Western Union with all the information i then replyed to the email with all the information and he also said in his email to say its not got goods/service its simply for a family friend so I said to Western Union it was for a family friend....
I recieved emails from him saying laptop has been sent and so on 7 days later it has yet to arrive and no more contact from them Square Trade email and not from him and I decided to scan the emails and it turns out both are fakes, It turns out that the Yahoo one is real but all his information is fake but the Square Trade email was a very clever setup he had designed the email so it looked perfectly like the real Square Trade email's and then used some anomolous email program to send an email with any address he choose, he used "[email protected]"....
Issue is I was done out of eBay so cant claim my money, The real square trade dont even do Elscrow service's and its out of there hands and as for the Police they couldnt give a crap.... Yet I have his IP address as i scanned the yahoo email and I found out he is on AOL and not from greece like he said and also Im gonna gibve the IP to the police see if they can do anything... :bang:
The Square Trade fake emails look like this....!