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scammer fraud

eddyz67 — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 21:44:19 GMT

a seller on ebay was selling a van ,i sent £950 deposit then realised it was a fake listing but to late i allready sent the money ,ebay wont help as i transfered the nomey with my banking app ,but i did report the seller but ebay left the listing up so more people are going to get scammed ,hes a scammer steels pictures from genuine auto trader sellers and opens fake accounts on ebay ,says he will take deposits for vehicles he does not own ,reported to action fraud ,lets hope ebay take action before more people get scammed

Re: scammer fraud

*guinevere* — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 20:40:46 GMT

I'm sorry you've lost your money but why on earth did you agree to send £950 to a complete stranger's bank account for a car you haven't even seen?

We cannot repeat the advice often enough on here

Only pay cash for a vehicle once you have seen it, thoroughly inspected it, and can drive it away.

Ebay is full of such criminals. They jump onto unused accounts and hack them to advertise their 'wares'.

Re: scammer fraud

tobiasd4 — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 20:41:09 GMT

There is NO ebay protection for vehicles.

Unfortunately lots of vehicle scams on ebay.

Re: scammer fraud

eddyz67 — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 20:46:45 GMT

i thought ebay might have acted a bit quicker as the listing is still on ebay ,i'm just thinking more people might get scammed

Re: scammer fraud

plpmr — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 21:35:28 GMT

wait 32 days and leave feedback to reflect your experience - leave it earlier and the seller can get it removed.

Re: scammer fraud

red_magpie — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 22:01:03 GMT

lets hope ebay take action before more people get scammed

Don't count on it.

There are endless scams in the motors section. EBay doesn't do enough to find and remove them, but even when they do as fast as one listing is removed, another appears. A senior police officer in London reported that one criminal gang alone had registered "multiple hundreds" of fake accounts on eBay to place fraudulent listings for motor vehicles.

Sadly, the reason this is so lucrative is that so many buyers, like yourself, don't read the terms of eBay's money back guarantee, or realise that there is NO BUYER PROTECTION WHATSOEVER for vehicles bought here, however you pay. (Unfortunately, there's also no protection for deposits, for vehicles or anything else.)

If it's any consolation, you're not alone. In one morning alone we heard of three buyers who had each lost over £6k paying for non-existent vehicles.

You've done all you can by reporting this to action fraud, but I'm afraid there's very little chance of getting your money back.

Re: scammer fraud

tobiasd4 — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 08:00:16 GMT

Ebay do remove them, but these people are loading up 100's of scam listings a day.