Rob M
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Club RR Member Number: 41
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May 14, 2020 13:52:40 GMT
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Seen a load of this on eBay recently, sadly people are still bidding on them despite them clearly being fake, I hope no one is contacting the obviously fake email People are bidding on them to ruin the advert. The ads say "don't bid, email me", so people are smashing massive bids in. If a mk1 xr2 is bidding at £55k and the seller offers it you for £5k it's even more of a red flag. With how long eBay have left some of these blatant scams running it's no wonder people seem to be targeting them themselves to draw attention to them. I heard somewhere that there is a group or groups of people that deliberately target the scam ads by putting eye watering bids which, basically, ruins the scam by putting off genuine bidders. |
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May 14, 2020 15:42:49 GMT
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Hi, That's not how you spell Genuine, it's spelt gullible.  Colin |
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May 14, 2020 16:13:44 GMT
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Usual story, if something looks too good to be true...
It is
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May 15, 2020 11:58:13 GMT
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People are bidding on them to ruin the advert. The ads say "don't bid, email me", so people are smashing massive bids in. If a mk1 xr2 is bidding at £55k and the seller offers it you for £5k it's even more of a red flag. With how long eBay have left some of these blatant scams running it's no wonder people seem to be targeting them themselves to draw attention to them. I heard somewhere that there is a group or groups of people that deliberately target the scam ads by putting eye watering bids which, basically, ruins the scam by putting off genuine bidders. It's called scam baiting, it's quite a popular thing to do with the India call centre scams |
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Only dogs go for new cars, real cars have rust!
Ford capri laser 1.6 -http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/181032/1986-ford-capri-laser-updates
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May 22, 2020 18:50:13 GMT
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People are bidding on them to ruin the advert. The ads say "don't bid, email me", so people are smashing massive bids in. If a mk1 xr2 is bidding at £55k and the seller offers it you for £5k it's even more of a red flag. With how long eBay have left some of these blatant scams running it's no wonder people seem to be targeting them themselves to draw attention to them. I heard somewhere that there is a group or groups of people that deliberately target the scam ads by putting eye watering bids which, basically, ruins the scam by putting off genuine bidders. I assumed something like that was going on. My eBay searches have been flooded with what I assume to be the same scammer using different hacked accounts for a bit now. Recently I noticed that every time a new batch of scam adds go on, the bids on them all are getting smashed right up almost straight away |
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edk83
Part of things
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Jun 10, 2020 12:30:59 GMT
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Have a look on the facebook groups for ebay scam
Some pretty dedicated guys on there
scammers are now starting to setup fake dealer websites and advertise on facebook etc
its all cat and mouse
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Jun 14, 2020 18:26:07 GMT
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If at first you don't succeed........
....Don't try skydiving!
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Jun 14, 2020 18:27:49 GMT
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Looks like they all got taken down by the time I wrote the post above! Looks like ebay is getting quicker at dealing with this stuff
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If at first you don't succeed........
....Don't try skydiving!
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Jun 14, 2020 21:17:59 GMT
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two of the four are still up
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Last Edit: Jun 14, 2020 21:18:55 GMT by tomfairall
Only dogs go for new cars, real cars have rust!
Ford capri laser 1.6 -http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/181032/1986-ford-capri-laser-updates
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fraudownersclub
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 1,025
Club RR Member Number: 23
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Loads of classic stuff this weekend for sale every one of them had a starting bid of 1900. And the old please e mail before bidding. I personally don’t bid in case they can scam your account It’s easy enough to report 😎
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#fraudownersclub
#richartsltd
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Jul 18, 2020 13:28:49 GMT
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Ahh, had seen the 205's and noticed they were fake listings |
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Jul 18, 2020 20:05:04 GMT
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All gone now, I contacted ebay seller and told him his account had been hacked by scammers.
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Jul 18, 2020 23:32:24 GMT
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Jul 20, 2020 18:08:57 GMT
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Jul 20, 2020 23:36:34 GMT
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They must have hundreds of accounts on standby, when one gets taken off they just upload the next one. I'd be interested to know how they get access so it can be avoided.
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Aug 22, 2020 17:21:25 GMT
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Last Edit: Aug 22, 2020 17:29:49 GMT by joem83
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