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I have been on EBAY reporting people whom have stolen ebay account and have been selling ham radio equipment using the stolen account. The people who bid then get their accounts stolen some how.
Here is an example of how the ad looks
http://cgi.ebay.com/YAESU-F....6975455 (http://cgi.ebay.com/YAESU-FT-1000-MP-Mark-V-transreceiver-200W_W0QQitemZ270016975455)
Notice the bidder ID is kept private?
Notice the seller is offering a buy it now in USD but is not using the buy it now option from ebay?
Notice the auction is 24 hours?
Notice the AWESOME price?
Notice the other items the seller is selling, they sell the same stuff all the time.
You will also notice that sometimes it is an actual auction they stole the picture or the entire ad from a real auction.
Go to the bottom of the page and click on Report this item
then choose
Fraudulent Listings
then select
You suspect a listing is fraudulent you didnt bid
click continue
then click email us
then just say you suspect the sellers account has been stolen
it will go away
I do searches for Yaesu or ICOM or any other radio and if i find them listed in a wrong area like this one is listed in Books > Nonfiction Books I will look and see what the auction is.
Get to know what the other items are they try to sell and use that for the search also
I reported one that was selling a TS-2000 5 times the same one in 5 different sections of Ebay.
Be Cautious dont be scammed and lets help other hams not get scammed
Also you can click on ask the seller a question and sometimes the seller has no idea their account has been stolen.
They get hold of accounts by phishing.
You've heard of the method: Message purporting to be from Ebay customer service or such arrives in your Inbox; states that your account might be compromised and has a link to a website for you to 'verify' your account info.
You're required to input your username...password...possibly, BidPay or PayPal info...bingo! Ownzered...
The slimeballs can then use your account to run all sorts of nefarious auctions.
Last year there were a bunch of KWM380s being advertised - goods were located in London; low initial bid price, zero or low feedback seller, etc...as fast as eBay shut them down another would pop back up in its place.
Castration is too good a punishment for these lusers...
found another searched ICOM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ICOM-R-....6174575 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ICOM-R-9000-Wide-Band-Communications-Receiver_W0QQitemZ300016174575)
KC2MDP
08-10-2006, 04:04 AM
This guy has 42 items listed, all at a starting bid of $99.00, you can E Mail him to "buy now" any of these items, the "buy now" price for the Yeasu rig is $1,000 and has no feedback at all from any buyers. He also seems to be big into buying jewlery. Seems strange to Me.
If it seems to good to be true.... It probably is.
the stuff he bought is most likely legit, but his account has been stolen and if you send him a message i bet he does not know someone stole his account and is selling under his user name
KC2MDP
08-10-2006, 04:14 AM
Quote[/b] (W6GQ @ Aug. 09 2006,21:02)]found another searched ICOM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ICOM-R-....6174575 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ICOM-R-9000-Wide-Band-Communications-Receiver_W0QQitemZ300016174575)
Now..... Is this guy selling an Icom R-9000 or a set of 6 Motorola GP-360 handhelds. I see a picture of an Icom, but read the description of Motorola handhelds http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
KB3LIX
08-10-2006, 04:54 AM
Quote[/b] (n8yx @ Aug. 09 2006,23:43)]They get hold of accounts by phishing.
You've heard of the method: Message purporting to be from Ebay customer service or such arrives in your Inbox; states that your account might be compromised and has a link to a website for you to 'verify' your account info.
You're required to input your username...password...possibly, BidPay or PayPal info...bingo! Ownzered...
The slimeballs can then use your account to run all sorts of nefarious auctions.
Last year there were a bunch of KWM380s being advertised - goods were located in London; low initial bid price, zero or low feedback seller, etc...as fast as eBay shut them down another would pop back up in its place.
Castration is too good a punishment for these lusers...
It seems that the volume of these bogus e-mails from E-Bay & PayPal are on the increase in my inbox.
I even got a new-twist on an old theme the other day.
An e-mail from E-Bay telling me my listing of a plasma TV I had for sale at a starting price of $ 499.00 was sucessfully listed, and wanted to know if I had any other items that I wanted to list.
They even went as far as sending a bogus 'question' from another E-Bay user asking a question about the TV for sale.
Needless to say, they went into the recycle bin without further examination.
In the past, I have received numerous inquiries from E-Bay & PayPal wanting me to update my user information for various reasons.
Hello.......Recycle Bin !!!
has anyone used UBID? any better? worse?
http://cgi.ebay.com/YAESU-F....7780726 (http://cgi.ebay.com/YAESU-FT-1000-HF-all-mode-Amateur-Radio-Beauty_W0QQitemZ230017780726)
W5HTW
08-12-2006, 04:06 PM
Usually, if you click on the link in the phishing messages and note your actual described link, you will find it is not what you expected and not what the link claimed to be. It may be marked "eBay.com" but when you actually click on it, it doesn't resemble ebay at all.
I have time. So I just go ahead and go to the web site (though often it has already been deleted by some ISP along the line) and give totally false information, a made up name, address, eBay sign in name, password, phone number. Everything totally fake. I figure, let them go chase it down and get aggravated. In fact I do that with many of the ones that come in wanting my credit card info, bank info, or whatever.
Heck I even enjoy the automated sales calls on the phone. The ones where they do the pitch and then say press 1 to speak with an associate. I press one, then lay the phone down and go have a cup of coffee.
Then I get the ones "How are you, Mr. Brooks?" I reply, "I'm fine, how are you?" They are obligated to tell me, so then I ask, "How's the wife? Are the kids doing OK?" "Did you get a new car lately? What kind? Do you like it?" When they get tired of casual chat I hang up on them. Or they hang up on me.
The key? Waste their time, if, of course, you have time to do it. At work I would get a sales call and I'd say something like "I'm away from my desk. Let me put you on hold so I can get to my desk." Then I'd go have a cup of coffee.
So let 'em rip. Breaks up a bit of the boredom.
Ed
WA2ZDY
08-12-2006, 06:57 PM
In NJ I used to get solicitation calls from a newspaper. Two actually, one I already subscribed to and another. It's the second I'm going to describe.
Every time this paper called I'd tell the caller nicely that I wasn't interested. One day she asked why. I told her I left for work at 5am and I knew their paper wasn't delivered by then, so it was useless to me. That didn't do it.
One day a nice lady called me and asked me to subscribe. I told her I'd love to but that her paper wouldn't help me. "Why?" "Your paper doesn't come in a braille edition." "What's braille?" I was dumbstruck but I told her. She was amazed that blind people (no, I'm not blind and I apologise if I've offended anyone who is, but these calls were becoming very annoying) could do things like answer the phone, etc.
They never called again.