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Cobra Sale / Strange Bird
Have to check out the other items this shinbone has for sale...........
No wonder his malebox is full. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1965-...QQcmdZViewItem |
..scam listing.. a hijacked account. :-)
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If you buy the car, you won't need the rest of that stuff! :o :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :cool:
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Yep Ron,
You are right, the SOHC CSX in the next listing is the same deal, both are $15k. Just struck me a humorous as to the other items for sale. Wonder when evil-bay is going to (forceably) take responsibility other than a canned written disclamer. Oh well, Caveat Emptor. |
OK, I admit that I really don't know much about eBay even though I purchased a car there 3 years ago. This guy's store has all kinds of cheap "sex" aids for sale and a Cobra at $15,000. Also he has a positive feedback rating of 99+%. Can someone explain how this works??? How does one hijack someone else's account?:confused:
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It looks to me that he has a sex toy ebay store and he is just using the bogus car to get peoples email address so you can get wonderful emails about sex toys! Have fun! :LOL:
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Wayne,
Most of these "too good to be true" deals are perpetuated when someone's account becomes hijacked. This can happen any number of ways, the owner of the account might have answered one of these spoof emails asking you to update or confirm your user account information, or he had his email address/account compromised (aol is the worst for this) and that gave the hijacker all the access to change passwords and such and take over the account. These spoof emails look so realistic that if you did not know better and did not pay attention to the headers when you clicked on them, that you would think it was Ebay or Paypal that had sent it. As an example, click the following Ebay link (safe) and see for yourself. http://www.motors.ebay.com See what I mean, the link says one thing, but takes you to a completely different web page. Simple and effective for the scammers, they send out a million of these emails a week and wait for the 1-2% of the people who are not paying attention to respond to them. Scary but true. |
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Yep,
The auction is set up in a "private Sale" manner. The auction originator relies on personal email to continue the scam. Ex: "I need to verify if you are serious about this car before I let you buy it. Email me personally and we will discuss arrangements." Or something to that effect. Once enough prospective buyers make contact, the seller (scammer) ends the auction. The seller now has a list of interested individuals with which to continue the scam. |
Wayne,
Another way to tell where the link goes is to use Bill's demo link. Just point your mouse pointer at it and look down at the left bottom of your screen and you will see that it actually goes to an entirely different link. I never click any unknown link without doing this. Some of them will send you to off shore islands with big charges. Ron :( |
Thanks guys. I work with this computer just about all day long but rarely have any time or interest to "play" with it. Or, maybe I just lead a sheltered life. :3DSMILE: :LOL:
I never reply to any unsolicited emails of any sort. There was (probably still is) a scam whereby people would receive an email that appeared to be from their bank asking them to click on the link which took them to their bank's site (bogus of course), at which time they were asked to enter account info, PIN, etc., "just to make sure that the bank's info was correct". Bingo, the bad guys had all they needed to access those accounts. I think that this is called phishing. This eBay scam sounds similar. I am surprised that eBay has not set up more security as these scams must be hurting their business. I like the guy who placed a bid of $10 million for one of these bogus too-good-to-be-true car auctions on eBay. Possibly a good way of warning unsuspecting bidders that this is a scam. Wayne |
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