Beware of new ebay scam

[Suffolk-Matt]

Lots will fall for this, once they have your details they can post fake listings in your account name

[skyhuck]

I got an email which appeared to be from Ebay, looked very convincing, it was telling me they were going to refund a buyer £500 from my paypal account, there was a "see case details" tab, which when clicked on took you to the Ebay login page. I did not put my details in, instead I logged on vier my own search, sure enough no such case.

[FJMatt]

have a look now theres now two scamers trying to sell the same processor,

i managed to stop the screen change ,to get onto other items for sale there were about 4 tractors and a mini digger

[Tom87]

HAKKI PILKE 1X37 Firewood Processor Forestry | eBay

 

Probably avoid

[Tom87]

Tajfun RCA 320-2 Firewood Processor | eBay

 

Another one? 2k for a tajfun processor?

[Acg128]

Come across loads like that.. All write exactly the same!

[Tom87]

I friend of mine recently got done over for £1600, he believed he was buying some simba press rolls, far to cheap to not raise eyebrows but theres always going to be a few who's hearts start racing at the sight of a good deal. It was very naive and silly of him to transfer the money before collecting them but the seller did have plenty of good feedback. That being said scammers feedback is always positive feedback for purchases only, never any previous sales much like that tajfun auction, they will buy small cheap items just to build up good feedback.

 

I tried to help him with filing a claim through the police and getting the police to try and work along with his bank and ebay themselves, the police were just as useless as ebay were and said they couldn't get any private details due to data protection but I blew my lid and the police finally manage to retrieve the true identity of the scammers. The address and bank details were traced to a house full of Somalians in barnet, most already had criminal records and if they tried to arrest someone for the scam they would keep changing their names and the police said it would be a waste of time.

 

The sad truth is they're extremely good at what they do, the number one rule to purchasing large machinery like this on ebay is to go and actually view the machine before parting with ANY money or just take a bankers draft on collection.

[Logsnstuff]

back when i did alot on fleabay i got done a few times on the shipping sending stuff out to china they would request surface shipping then after you notified them goods were sent they would file a claim for non receipt and get their money back, luckily items were low value and when I started buying I was more cautious had a russian try and do me over some vases for $8k I'd used paypal and made sure it was funded from credit card so when the vases never turned up the credit card got the money back.

[Gardenmac]

Come across loads like that.. All write exactly the same!

 

Yeah they all seem to have the same style, same typos and should all have a big sign saying buyer beware!