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Classic car fraudulent listings on the rise

lenos1980
Contributor

‎01-12-2018 9:37 AM

Ive been using Ebay since 2003 and have enjoyed the use of the notifications on new listings meeting my criteria, over the past year this has been littered with users listing the best classic cars available under the address United kingdom it and giving emails in the listings for people to contact them. Now for the majority of us sending these scum money by bank transfer is unlikely but what about all of those that do? I continuously report each and every advert I find and they stay live for several days after. Why wont Ebay remove the users as soon as they are reported??? Ive had over 3000 listings added to my search in 5 hours and they are all from one fake user. I feel that Ebay is helping these people scam thousands if not hundreds of thousands of pounds from unsuspecting buyers that believe in EBAY and that they couldn't possibly allow them to be robbed blind.
WHY DOESNT EBAY ADD A FRAUD WARNING TO EVERY FIFTH LISTING ON EBAY MOTORS TO ATTEMPT TO STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING!!!
sorry for the rant but I'm close to closing my Ebay accounts for good.
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lenos1980
Contributor
‎10-12-2018 9:44 PM
So I'm back again Ebay has had reports from me and the fake listings have stayed live for over 4 hours. I hate to think how many poor people have been scammed so far while EBAY yet AGAIN does nothing.
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tobiasd4
Experienced Mentor
‎01-12-2018 9:52 AM

I agree with you, ebay could do a lot more, but as soon as they close 1 account, another pops up or is hacked.

I can never understand why anyone would buy a car without seeing it 1st, but they do, so as long as people are gullible, then these scams will continue.

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lenos1980
Contributor
‎15-12-2018 9:59 AM
Why can't Ebay force the users location details? These scammers seem to change the real account owners address details on every advert! Surely this is not only a simple spot but a simple fix?
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tobiasd4
Experienced Mentor
‎15-12-2018 7:55 PM
You have to blame the ebay account holders for giving away their passwords for scammers to change details,
ebay confirms changes with account holder, but of course that would now be the scammer.
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lenos1980
Contributor
‎15-12-2018 8:18 PM
What so Ebay doesnt think it's odd that the "new" account owner wants to change the addresses for all ads to UK or United kingdom or whatever they come up with? If it was a fee evasion case they'd be all over it and that's the problem, where's the incentive for Ebay to not only stop these scammers but actually prevent them from being able to do this in the first place. PayPal is almost impenetrable by scammers yet Ebay is still wide open and why? Because PayPal have to give the money back and Ebay don't.
This really needs to be enforced by someone as its clear Ebay is incapable of controlling its site by itself. Hopefully they dont take over border control or we're all stuffed.
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tobiasd4
Experienced Mentor
‎15-12-2018 8:25 PM
We all agree with you, but ebay don't look at these boards, so you need to contact ebay direct, good luck with that.
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