Having been a victim of a similar looking scam a month ago as a seller I had
my listing and pictures stolen. I would imagine that as in mine case that
the images and the text are simply taken from other listings. This most
likely accounts for the different quality and backgrounds of the pictures
and for the higher quality of the text. In my case the scammer took just one
of the 12 pictures I presented for the guitar I was selling. They then took
the title verbatim but heavily edited the listing text to take out all of my
TOS and some of the specifics of the guitar. Most of the actual description
remained albeit in a nice bright red and large font. The id involved was a
new one and from China just like this scam. In my case he had a very low
starting price in USD and set it up as a one day auction. His other listings
included another 8 or so guitars all stolen from other current listings or
recently closed. I was only alerted to it by another victim seller who had
his listing stolen too.
The sad end story was that despite both me and the other victim reporting
the seller eBay failed to cancel the listing before it closed or suspend the
seller. Thankfully nobody bit on any of the guitars.
If I recall correctly China has only recently been admitted into the eBay
pot so I would fear that this sort of thing is likely to be a common
situation until eBay enforce their rules better.
Dan S.
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jeff Keller
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 12:45 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Oboy #7607265614
Some seem to have surely had different people involved. The writing changed
too much. Tracking down the guilty wouldn't be easy. Following the money is
probably the only way.
Widening out to abuse - the spammers seem to be going to greater and greater
lengths to send their spam. I'm seeing junk come through with forged
webmaster@ return addresses. I can't imagine why anyone would send money to
someone who has forged the recipients address as their own. In the last week
or so the spam getting through to me has doubled. It's interesting that the
amount of spam with my actual email address ( jeff@ ) seems to have gone
down. I guess enough people had problems with blocking the spam sender only
to find out they had blocked their own address that the ISPs implemented an
effective way to identify the spam.
I would love to see the both the fraud and spam perpetrators receive some
serious punishment. Ideally suck enough money out of them to fund more good
guys to go after them.
-jeff
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From: ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
Jeff, this is an interesting point that raises an odd question. I wonder if
there are 'consultants' that offer their services to write the copy for
these scams?
We need to keep in mind that the people who do these things aren't
pranksters; they're criminals and should be dealt with as such.
ScottGee1
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