Help Have I Been Scammed!!! Please!!!!

mcmanlyn

This is deffo dodgy - i had almost the exact same thing when i sold a phone a few months ago. I reported it to ebay, and they confirmed it was a scam! The scammer forges emails from ebay & paypal in order to get you to post the phone out

NEVER send anything out until you actually have the money in your account! If anyone tries to get you to do this it is always dodgy!

frivolous_fay

timbo86 wrote: »

If this person was the winning bidder for the transaction then the transaction in question should be reconsidered and completed. You must end the auction if the item have been re-listed.We therefore urge you to go and ship the item or take the necessary step if the buyer has paid for the item.

Those were the first shoddy grammar giveaways - it just gets worse from there. Don't entertain any more emails from this person, and sell to the legit bidder. The emails are NOT from ebay.

mum2one

It def sounds dodgy, the best way to see if any of them was sent via was of ebay origin, go into your ebay account, sign in as normal and then go to "My Messgaes", if its geunine then it will also appear in there.

Def sounds like a scam, dontr send the phone out, also if its any help ebay have got a helpline number, your get it offthe home page.

Hope that helps x

CBo

Reading it sounds like the classic fake paypal e-mail scam. If you check the headers of the e-mails you probably find they've come off a foreign smtp proxy. I had this recently.. They attempt to send e-mails claiming being restated on ebay (even though the guy was unregistered on ebay) and a e-mail that mentions "payment" (all it is some lousy copied e-mail with whatever rubbish in attempt to make you think you have payment and quite often they add several hundreds in a equally comedy attempt. Pretty silly when it's obvious you would enter www.paypal.com and check it from there.

madmich666

This is my first post so hope this helps......I use ebay all the time and recently had a scam email from paypal. If I were you I would contact ebay directly and inform them of the emails you have been receiving. They probably already know there are problems with 'f1geek'. The first email is probably from ebay, but the others are obviously fakes due to poor grammer etc.

Another point... if you dont have paypal in your listing then there is no way that they can even try to add funds to your account!!!

In the meantime dont post the phone. If I was in your situation, after contacting ebay, I would email the second highest bidder and inform them that you are having problems with the winner if they still want the phone then offer them a second chance offer again and completely ignor the winner.

Good luck & hope you get this sorted.

timbo86

Thankyou sooooo much for your help, i cant tell you how grateful i am this is a great community it really is,

whats the email address for me to report this to ebay please.

Thankyou

mum2one

timbo86 wrote: »

Thankyou sooooo much for your help, i cant tell you how grateful i am this is a great community it really is,

whats the email address for me to report this to ebay please.

Thankyou

Just forward the message to

[EMAIL="spoof@ebay.co.uk"]spoof@ebay.co.uk[/EMAIL]

or if the listing mentions paypal would also forward to them,I know you dont have a paypal account, but keeps paypal in the loop

[EMAIL="spoof@paypal.co.uk"]spoof@paypal.co.uk[/EMAIL]

crispy116

There is one really easy way to see whether the email is a spoof or not:

Log in to your ebay account - by typing in the web address in your browser not by clicking on any link in any of these emails!

Then go to your messages in your account - and any emails that they have sent you legitimately will appear here.

This is a great example of a dodgy email chain though

scope

I had a similar thing happen to me, Its a SCAM.

Never send an item unless you get the money in your account (paypal or bank), and always wait for cheques to clear before sending anything.

Ebay refunded all my costs (including photo, bold, etc), but I had to ask them for it, they only refunded part of the costs at first.

StaffsSW

As paypal do not offer an Escrow service, it's pretty apparant it's a fake, although it's the first one I have seen that offers a UK address for shipping.

And #11 I agree - Crumpsall makes the setting of Shameless look like Beverly Hills!