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My parents have just been scammed out of 10k due to a fraudulent seller who is STILL advertising the same item on eBay
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My parents have just been scammed out of 10k due to a fraudulent seller who is STILL advertising the same item on eBay
tressygirl
Mentor11 months agoTen thousand pounds!
Can you come back and tell us those details please what happened exactly ?
Was the purchase of a vehicle involved?
If so, there will be no help from eBay but you would need to turn to legal advice for this case.
@shonpic
shonpic
OP11 months agohow many people he has scammed with this listing. When the police contacted
him he claimed his identity had been cloned and it wasn’t him! When my
husband contacted the seller (same number) he confirmed oh yes this is
still for sale x
tressygirl
Mentor11 months agoTake legal advice. It's far, far too much money to lose.
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red_magpie
Mentor11 months agoThere are so many scams on eBay motors - often involving adverts for camper vans.
In a TV programme about organised crime, a senior police officer reported that one criminal gang alone had registered "multiple hundreds" of fake accounts on eBay to place fraudulent listings for non-existent motor vehicles.
Forget about eBay doing anything - they won't, unless perhaps the seller is convicted in a court.
Concentrate efforts to identify the member responsible, and bring them to justice. It's essential to seek legal advice, partly because action to get your parents'money back may be separate from any criminal charges brought by the police.