I contacted a seller about buying a car on Ebay. The listing says "Selling for a mate, contact him on xxx email" and not to contact via ebay. The broker is in Spain, selling on behalf of his brother who died recently. Payments need to go via OFX.com money transfer service, who the seller advises offer a 7 day return of money. OFX don't offer that service, but when googling it, the same story comes up many times on forums for people that have been scammed by the same person. I just checked and the seller has 800 listings open, many with bids. The active bids currently exceed £500k and rising. The seller has only 17 feedback and no sales in the past 12 months, but suddenly has 800 vehicles to sell. This is obviously a scam, and lots of people will lose money, but I can't see how to report it.
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