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Re: E bay scam
hindesight is an amazing tool that kicks u in the teeth after. i would never buy a very high price item on ebay and of course there is some sort of risk in any 2nd hand transaction. even from reputable traders there have been cases of people un-knowingly buying 2 cars welded together, items that have been stolen etc... it happens and hopefully it only accounts for a very small %. there are many scams and most of the warnings on line are about super obvious ones where pl are offering u stuff unbelievably cheap or compensation where u have had no accident or entering detailses wen if its the real person should have it... sites also sometimes have new ways of doing or presenting business as technolgies unfold. i remember the very first time i bought a ryan air flite in 1997/8 and was so scared because in those days, i was not used to internet purchasing...
i was fooled like countless others thro a email scam where an offer is sent to my email. now ebay say - ' we never send such offers to private emails but only to your inbox within ebay' . but how am i supposed to know that? they email me practically every dya with their offers discounts, sales, things of interest. this is the nature of e commerce. once u buy somethign u are bombared with their stuff cos they have your email.
some ppl point out that u need to look at the email address its coming from. very true. and it came from ebay(or at least thats what it looked like. url change for legitiamte business - often companies use dontreply....@their business name .com as opposed to watever it is to eamil them... it shard to keep track with all the emails. and since companies are global. ebay exisits everywhere. wat if i get emails with .de or .se or .com as opposed to .co.uk maybe i was searching somethign tat was coming from a german seller?
in my case i received a ebay email to my private address, i responded, and a invoce follwed from ebay - jus that the payment was by bank transfer. i thought it was their payment protaction plan an di was seemingly paying ebay... that wat the acc no. looked like. also it was a barclays bank account. thats where i bank so i thought - its ebay, barclays no worries... and yes i was caught out...
the interesting thing is - is a lot of the ebay scams - if not all of them seem to be link ed with barclays.? why. in the law of averages - u would assume internet crime to be a little everywhere, wherever the criminals can get in. so i would of thought one would find hsbc, lloyds, halifax etc... but no - its always barclays.
why them. wat do they have or not have that makes them more a target for this? or am i just reading too much into this. there are many different types of net fraud from stealing ppls identity, using ppls personal information to defraud them etc but mine was basically i paid the criminal? wow. they did a great job.
the other question is, in the research i have done, i have found some stats saying ebay gets scammed 600 times a day. also that there are 100 thousand spoof emaisl sent everyo month to ebay customers just in the UK. all they need is just a uptake of 0.01% and they are minted. i dont know wat the ebay fraud is compared to other prolific sites such as amazon, expedia, kayak , ebuyer etc but i would be interested to know wat proportion of crime they account for? who would know that? the police were not willing to give me a figure except that they are receiving a high amount of calls regarding ebay. well probably 600 a day!
hindesight is an amazing tool that kicks u in the teeth after. i would never buy a very high price item on ebay and of course there is some sort of risk in any 2nd hand transaction. even from reputable traders there have been cases of people un-knowingly buying 2 cars welded together, items that have been stolen etc... it happens and hopefully it only accounts for a very small %. there are many scams and most of the warnings on line are about super obvious ones where pl are offering u stuff unbelievably cheap or compensation where u have had no accident or entering detailses wen if its the real person should have it... sites also sometimes have new ways of doing or presenting business as technolgies unfold. i remember the very first time i bought a ryan air flite in 1997/8 and was so scared because in those days, i was not used to internet purchasing...
i was fooled like countless others thro a email scam where an offer is sent to my email. now ebay say - ' we never send such offers to private emails but only to your inbox within ebay' . but how am i supposed to know that? they email me practically every dya with their offers discounts, sales, things of interest. this is the nature of e commerce. once u buy somethign u are bombared with their stuff cos they have your email.
some ppl point out that u need to look at the email address its coming from. very true. and it came from ebay(or at least thats what it looked like. url change for legitiamte business - often companies use dontreply....@their business name .com as opposed to watever it is to eamil them... it shard to keep track with all the emails. and since companies are global. ebay exisits everywhere. wat if i get emails with .de or .se or .com as opposed to .co.uk maybe i was searching somethign tat was coming from a german seller?
in my case i received a ebay email to my private address, i responded, and a invoce follwed from ebay - jus that the payment was by bank transfer. i thought it was their payment protaction plan an di was seemingly paying ebay... that wat the acc no. looked like. also it was a barclays bank account. thats where i bank so i thought - its ebay, barclays no worries... and yes i was caught out...
the interesting thing is - is a lot of the ebay scams - if not all of them seem to be link ed with barclays.? why. in the law of averages - u would assume internet crime to be a little everywhere, wherever the criminals can get in. so i would of thought one would find hsbc, lloyds, halifax etc... but no - its always barclays.
why them. wat do they have or not have that makes them more a target for this? or am i just reading too much into this. there are many different types of net fraud from stealing ppls identity, using ppls personal information to defraud them etc but mine was basically i paid the criminal? wow. they did a great job.
the other question is, in the research i have done, i have found some stats saying ebay gets scammed 600 times a day. also that there are 100 thousand spoof emaisl sent everyo month to ebay customers just in the UK. all they need is just a uptake of 0.01% and they are minted. i dont know wat the ebay fraud is compared to other prolific sites such as amazon, expedia, kayak , ebuyer etc but i would be interested to know wat proportion of crime they account for? who would know that? the police were not willing to give me a figure except that they are receiving a high amount of calls regarding ebay. well probably 600 a day!
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