All posts tagged Scams

eBay Scam – sopron9@gmail.com

By | November 19, 2008 | Scams | 1 Comment

I’d like to take this opportunity to let others know what happened.
ProofofpostagetohungaryThis guy won an eBay auction I had going for my mother.
He paid promptly by PayPal, and requested I post it as cheap as possible to Hungary.
3 days after i marked his item as dispatched, he filed a dispute with  PayPal.

PayPal requested i send them proof of delivery (which i did)

They wrote back, stating that it does not provide a tracking number.
Absolutely right – the buyer didn’t pay for that level of delivery.

PayPal then refunded his money, and he’s disappeared, leaving me out of pocket both with the postage cost, and the item!

His email address is sopron9@gmail.com, and goes by the name of Peter Stadler

Please, don’t do business with him on eBay.

Selling Car Fraud

By | September 16, 2008 | Scams | 7 Comments

I’ve started this category to make people aware of various means of scamming car owners, when selling their vehicles.

The general idea is this:

  • Someone will contact you, after seeing your advert.
  • They will seem interested, and sometimes ask for more pictures etc…
  • After some “haggling” they will aggree to buy your car at your asking price (or very near)
  • They will then send you the “terms” – Basically, they claim to be a used car dealer, and the shipping merchant they will be using to ship your car from your house to their premesis owes them money.
  • You are to receive a payment for an amount, many thousands more than you will get for your car, and send the difference somewhere else (this is the scam)

The payment never arrives, and you’re left thousands out of pocket, or, if it does arrive, its a false cheque (which clears first, then the bank take it back)

I will add as many email addresses and emails as I get to this category – so that google has something to get hold of (for all those sensible googlers out there who search portions of the email / email address first)

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