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do i smell a rat

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  • Gleeful
    Gleeful Posts: 1,979 Forumite
    Warning neg just added which has left them with 50% positive feedback:

    http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=leethorogood_69&&_trksid=p2047675.l2560&rt=nc&iid=251270478296&sspagename=VIP:feedback&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller
  • Brooker_Dave
    Brooker_Dave Posts: 5,196 Forumite
    Gleeful wrote: »
    Warning neg just added which has left them with 50% positive feedback:

    http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=leethorogood_69&&_trksid=p2047675.l2560&rt=nc&iid=251270478296&sspagename=VIP:feedback&ftab=FeedbackAsSeller

    Is that not from 2008??
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  • mcjordi
    mcjordi Posts: 4,238 Forumite
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    Brooker_Dave wrote: »
    Is that not from 2008??

    he did have a "scam alert beware" earlier today.., seems ebay have closed the auctions down
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  • Gleeful
    Gleeful Posts: 1,979 Forumite
    Yeah they have removed the feedback
  • SunnySusie
    SunnySusie Posts: 274 Forumite
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    James_Lahey wrote: »
    "Spoof or ‘phishing’ emails tend to have generic greetings such as "Dear PayPal member". Emails from PayPal will always address you by your first and last name."
    )

    I was reading an article talking about the growing evidence that scammers are cleverer that we think about targeting there spam. The initial "hooks" are often too good to be true deals or full of spelling mistakes etc so that clued up people dismiss them easily.

    The people who proceed are then likely to be more gullible, easier to manipulate than the rest of us.

    So whilst we like to have a laugh and go "who would fall for that...?" that's precisely what the scammers are aiming for. The people who do fall for it are the ones worth trying to take further to the next steps. Why waste your time on savvy / switched on people?! (no offence to quoted poster, we are all capable of dropping our guard ;)!)!
  • Simmysim
    Simmysim Posts: 1,176 Forumite
    edited 11 May 2013 at 8:00PM
    Did anybody buy anything in the end? They seem to be sending these out, several feedback received also a few negs and neutrals
    :A
  • ballisticbrian
    ballisticbrian Posts: 4,002 Forumite
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    You are looking at feedback from 2009 - of course they did not send any out!!!???
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  • soolin
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    ballisticbrian wrote: »
    You are looking at feedback from 2009 - of course they did not send any out!!!???

    I can see feedback from 2013?
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  • ballisticbrian
    ballisticbrian Posts: 4,002 Forumite
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    You must be looking at a chached page, all his recent feedback was deleted.
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  • soolin
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    ballisticbrian wrote: »
    You must be looking at a chached page, all his recent feedback was deleted.

    I've just tried again by going in through my logged in account, 239 positive feedback this month, 9 nets and 4 negs.

    I am not techie but wouldn't I get a fresh page, not cache if I go in through an auction to look for seller? I'll try it another way and see if I get the same.

    I've done a clean search for the sellers ID and still get the same results.
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