Re: Scams in progress on eBay
- From: "CJDW364@xxxxxxxxx" <CJDW364@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 5 Apr 2007 01:19:34 -0700
On Apr 4, 5:47 am, Rita Ä Berkowitz <ritaberk2O04 @aol.com> wrote:
Gisle Hannemyr wrote:
Now, I don't believe for a second that someone in mainland China
has a warehouse of EOS 5Ds and is happy to let them go for around
300 bucks apiece, so something is obviously wrong here.
Smart thinking on your part.
The clue here is that while he accepts PayPal, the payment is routed
outside eBay and therefore, as far as eBay and Paypal is concerned,
thetransactionis /not/ connected to said eBay auction. In effect,
PayPal payments /outside/ eBay is just an alternate version of
Western Union wire transfer.
You're assuming PayPal doesn't and won't initiatefraudprotection and not
allow thetransactionto be funded with a CC. I was in a similar situation
a year or so back when the seller was a low feedback newbie that had an item
I won and accepted CC funded PayPal. I tried to pay, but the option wasn't
available to me to use since PayPal deemed this a "high risk"transaction.
They, PayPal, said that I could use a bank funded transfer. By not allowing
me to use a CC for this onetransactionPayPal shifted *ALL* risk to me, the
buyer. I backed out of thetransactionbecause I won't complete atransactionthat can't be CC funded.
I am not going to proceed with this (if somebody is willing to put
$328 on the line to conduct this experiment, please contact me).
I think this scammer knows his stuff, and that Rita's blanket
statement that "paying with a CC funded PayPal payment" is virtually
risk free
- is too broad.
The scammer knows that if he can get *some* money into his hands prior to
PayPal freezing or yanking it back by stalling the buyer. If these payments
were CC funded the buyer gets their money back and PayPal is out if they
can't recoup from the seller. I'll bet if you tried to send money PayPal
would have removed the CC option from your funding options.
(I reported this particular seller to eBay om March 29, he has been
busy selling huge lots of 5Ds and 1DsIIs for around $300 apiece ever
since. So far, no response from eBays "security" department.)
Why worry about it? He's not.
Rita
Hi,
I want to joined my experienced with a scammer from UK, He's name
sean broadhurst as a director sales and acquisition from
trophyhomes.co.UK ( his email address is : Sean Broadhurst
<seanbroadhurst@xxxxxxxxx>,
Sean Broadhurst <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. He offer me 4 a second hand
watches consist of : cartier santos 100, Rolex YM 16622, Breitling
bentley and tag heuer aquaracer. amount GBP1000. he claimed as an
original watches, come with box and paper. But infact, just only a
second hand fakes watches ( and for tah heuer has broken links and
the breitling crown is damage). I have claimed to paypal, but their
asked, is not dispute cause that stuff has received in my hand, paypal
is not responsible about real or fake stuff. I think is our problem
against scammer like sean broadhurst via paypal..Altough he promised
me to refund my money back, after i've been contact his company
( before that, he has not any respond of my email). Unfortunately,
until now he disappeared , although i've contact his company, to
pushed him refund my money back. Just for alert for all of you,
remebering a name is sean broadhurst has a fraudulent transaction
and he is a great scammer. His address is :
7 Winchester Close, Liverpool
UK, Post Code L 257YD
Becareful with his activity. And thank for your attention.
regards,
Dody - Jakarta / Indonesia
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