Another Ebay voucher scam! Help required

Simple answer is not to buy vouchers off eBay. I understand it flashes up a warning when you bid on such telling you about not being covered.

f_@_w_y wrote: »

There must be way out to stop this happening once again! Otherwise, I should start doing this!!

Dont buy vouchers on Ebay. Sorted.

One day they will sell to the wrong person and may or may not live to do it again.

f_@_w_y wrote: »

Surely my seller has found a wrong person on the other end! :mad::mad::mad:

Possibly but probably not as many as the good people he has found.

When this happened to me a few years ago, I pulled the details from ebay and rang the phone number. I was incredibly lucky that the phone number was a real phone number and a real adress. The phone didn't join the adress. I rang the number and got a very nice lady who confirmed that the adress was not hers but the phone number wasn't. She asked if I minded telling her why I was ringing and I couldn't see why not as I had wasted her time asking lots of questions. She said she'd had the police at her house all afternoon too asking all sorts of questions. It seemed as though there was a large scam going on.
She also told me her husband was a postie who may be covering the round for the address I had so took my phone number. She phoned me back the following day and said that her husband hadn't done that round that day but HAD talked to a colleague. There was mail going to the address in question which was addressed to 2 different people 1 had the christian name of the fake person and the other had the surname of the fake person. So we knew that much. I had a contact at the local police station and a crime reference number from my local police station.
I then went through the list of everyone who had negged the scammer and contacted them. I gave them all of the info and the police details. Most of them got back to me and were surprised with how far it had gone so far. They all agreed to persue the matter too.
We all contacted the local police station. I gave the chap all the information which I had managed to gather and my crime reference number. I also gave them the details provided by the lady who I had phoned.
This lady phoned me a few days later to say that her husband had been told these women had been seen carted off by the police that day. The police phoned the following day to say that they had been charged. A few months later, I had a letter from the courts saying that the defendants had been found guilty and had to repay us our money. It's been coming in dribs and drabs over the last several years but I will get it back.
Justice did work in the end. So do go ahead and pursue this through legal avenues.

Good luck and well done for standing up to them