Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > E-bay second chance scammer

[mikesps]

Watch out for this one if you lose out in an e-bay auction.

I was second highest bidder on a set of Brembo monobloc calipers a few days ago. Last night I got a "second chance" e-mail as the deal had supposedly not worked out with the highest bidder. For a while I was just a bit excited.

After accepting, I was asked by "e-bay" to pay by Western Union. Oh oh, scam alert! It was someone pretending to be the original seller, with a different name, e-mail address and who lived in a different country. He even told me to tell Western Union I was sending money to a relative. I imagine that would be where Western Union would warn me it is a scam!

I asked him for his phone number so that my "brother" who, strangely enough, lives just up the road from his address could collect the calipers. It turned out "the seller" was deaf and couldn't use the phone. When my "brother" was in the street where he allegedly lives, complete with college course in sign language he stopped replying!

He was even using a second account to spoof e-bay telling me that it was all legitimate, at the same time. Seems e-bay uses a Yahoo account too.

I am sure the original sale was legitimate and the highest bidder is happy with a bargain set of monoblocs, and this had nothing to do with the original seller. Just somebody taking advantage, so watch out if you almost win something on e-bay.