A new type of scam?

zeke

I've just received a question to one of my ebay items as follows:

Hi my friend,
we are a big wholesale seller who can offer you many kinds of electronic and digiatal products such as laptops, Digital cameras , mobile phones,Camcorders, video ipods , GPS, psp, and so on.
We can guarantee you high quality , low price and best service,no matter how many products you want.We will try our best to make you satisfied.
If you are really interested in our products, please contact us.
MSN ADDRESS: (etime8888@hotmail.com)
our telephone:(+8610--89649892)
welcome to visit our website: https://www.etime8.com.
Sincerely yours
wenying liu

I had a quick look at the website and some of the prices are good but I'm far too suspicious to be tempted especially as some of the spelling/ grammar is iffy and western union is mentioned as a payment method. You can't buy through the website, you need to contact them via email or MSN.

Has anyone else come across this outfit?

zeke

me4bargains wrote:

Sorry but I have suspicions that you may be behind the website.
It's obviously dodgy so why 'advertise' it by posting it on here?

I certainly am not behind it- I put it on here because I haven't come across this version of scamming before and hoped it might be a useful warning to others. Not sure your logic stands up either- "have a look at this, by the way I think its dodgy".

Slightly offended.....

Browntoa

according to this

Domain Name: ETIME8.COM
Registrar: ONLINENIC, INC.
Whois Server: whois.OnlineNIC.com
Referral URL: http://www.OnlineNIC.com
Name Server: NS1.SITEEM.COM
Name Server: NS2.SITEEM.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 29-apr-2006
Creation Date: 29-apr-2006
Expiration Date: 29-apr-2007


according to the web site

Copyright 2001-2006

looks odd to me

soolin

western union...no thanks

Moglex

me4bargains wrote:

Sorry but I have suspicions that you may be behind the website.
It's obviously dodgy so why 'advertise' it by posting it on here?

So everyone who posts a potential scam is now "advertising" it?

Time to up the dose of the paranoia pills, methinks.

smashed

I received 1 like that this week, only it was from China.

alexpeck

This one is the one I keep getting from various accounts as a question to my Sony Cybershot N1 (camera) auctions:

Dear friend, this is QianKunQiSheng Trading Company sending regards to
you. We are now looking for sincere partners, www.qkqs.com is our
website, you will find wonderful digital cameras with good prices here.
We want to share our resources and information with you. Please contact
us at MSN or Email: [EMAIL="YouRtheone888@yahoo.com.cn"]YouRtheone888@yahoo.com.cn[/EMAIL]

kit

I was selling a projector and I was getting messages like this about 5 times a day.

I gave up reporting them to ebay in the end as nothing was done about it. Just delete them but dont buy from them.

zeke

I was thinking of winding them up via email or MSN- anyone see any problems with this or am I being paranoid about them having access to info on my PC? Any suggestions?

greenpixey

I've been receiving these on a few on my items recently. It's quite annoying since you get your hopes up it would be a genuin question from a buyer, instead you get people trying to advertise their sites.
This one came today:

Q: Dear friend, are you searching for Scanners with better quality and lower prices? Please come to our site ( https://www.shhwj.com ), you will find a great selection of the electronics available in new design and model. Besides, we promise that you will get the best services here. your interests, our aims. So any questions please don't hesitate to contact my Email and MSN: nbob111@yahoo.com.cn. Thanks for your interests.

rushnowt

zeke wrote:

I've just received a question to one of my ebay items as follows:

Hi my friend,
we are a big wholesale seller who can offer you many kinds of electronic and digiatal products such as laptops, Digital cameras , mobile phones,Camcorders, video ipods , GPS, psp, and so on.
We can guarantee you high quality , low price and best service,no matter how many products you want.We will try our best to make you satisfied.
If you are really interested in our products, please contact us.
MSN ADDRESS: (etime8888@hotmail.com)
our telephone:(+8610--89649892)
welcome to visit our website: www.etime8.com.
Sincerely yours
wenying liu

I had a quick look at the website and some of the prices are good but I'm far too suspicious to be tempted especially as some of the spelling/ grammar is iffy and western union is mentioned as a payment method. You can't buy through the website, you need to contact them via email or MSN.

Has anyone else come across this outfit?

i also received this email, actually thought at first someone was interested in something i was selling

i had no idea what to do, i haven't looked at the site and had no idea whether messages like that had to be reported to ebay as they do on here