Scam Watch

Good laser is from http://www.dragonlasers.com Essential viewing for any one thinking of buying a green laser pointer on ebay.

Explanations of the 3 main ways sellers of green laser pointers on ebay scam people AND put their health at risk.

The black ebay laser is advertised as 240mW and silver ebay laser is advertised as 100mW.

The genuine green laser pointer is a Viper green laser pointer from http://www.dragonlasers.com

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Avoid getting ripped-off by scammers and fraudulent ebayers. This video shows you the latest scam in eBay motors. Scammers attempt to steal downpayments and usernames and passwords from ebay users by posting fake motorcycle listings. This are typically expired listings that the scammers relist.

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http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/08/smbusiness/paypal_funds_freeze.fsb/index.htm

Could you imagine with these new rules how much money you will lose? You will send an item customer will use it for 2 weeks and then do a chargeback and get all their money back! AND KEEP THE ITEM!!!

This is a small video about the reverse scammers that prey on sellers and steal their goods. Please if you are a Paypal seller that has been burned comment here and lets get some justice. It’s not always the buyer of an item that gets scammed. Sellers get scammed as well. Listen to my story and see what I mean. Rate the video get it featured, make Paypal an ebay company wake up!

Here is the email that started the whole thing!

Dear XXXXXX XXXXXXX,

As you know, we have been using the information you provided to dispute a
chargeback filed against the transaction detailed below. Despite our best
efforts, the buyer’s credit card company decided in favor of the buyer.

Unfortunately, we do not control the outcome of the chargeback decision
reached by the buyer’s issuing bank in a credit card transaction. By
accepting the terms of the PayPal User Agreement, you agreed to accept the
decision of the issuing bank as final and legally binding for this type of
dispute.

Please review the information below for more details about this case.

After getting this I filed a complaint to IC3 and the buyer sent the item to Paypal.

Paypal then sent me this email

Dear XXXXX XXXXX,

One of your buyers has completed a chargeback of their payment through
their credit card company and returned merchandise to us for the following
transaction:

Buyer’s Name: XXXX XXXXXXXXXX
Buyer’s Email: SCAMMER@sria.com
Transaction Date: Mar 24, 2006
Your Transaction ID: 6RL38215T0XXXXXXXX
Buyer’s Transaction ID: 5K563344HY2XXXXXXXX
Transaction Amount: -$1,420.00 USD
Case #: PP-174-846-XXX

Once you have reimbursed us for this transaction, we will return the
merchandise to you. Please add funds to your account or send a check to
the following address:

PayPal - Accounting Department
P.O. Box 45950
Omaha, NE 68145-0950

Please respond within 30 days to chargeback-appeal1@paypal.com once we
receive your reimbursement on how you would like this merchandise returned
to you.. If you have a Fed Ex account you would like billed, please advise
us of the account number. Otherwise your PayPal account will be debited for
the shipping cost of returning your merchandise to you via Fed Ex Ground
shipping. Please be sure to include your street address and phone number
for shipment, and note PO Boxes cannot be shipped to.

If a reply is not received within 30 days, your rights to your merchandise
may be forfeited.

Sincerely,
PayPal Disputes Department

I get a whole 30 days to make my mind up if I want to send them 1420 dollars for an item they claim to have. I asked for pictures and never got any.

MY ANSWER

Have you determined if the item is in good condition? Have you tested
it?
Did you make sure all the original parts are there? I already filed a
report
with IC3 and I listed Paypal as one of the defendants.
You let the man file a chargeback before he even sent the item back.
This
is
called fraud and you helped perpetuate it! I have the right to determine
if

the item is retunable. I also have the right to see my item before I
issue
any refund.

You didnt want to help me at all in the matter, but now you have your
hand
out looking for money.

Why would I have to pay shipping?

The item was not even damaged he wanted to return it because he didnt
like
it. And that was after he painted it.

Paypal you need a redesign!

Why dont you address my needs and email me for real instead of sending
me
form letters?

Form Message
customer subject: Chargeback
customer message: Additional Information: ‘Ok I had a chargeback on my
account for an item I sold on ebay. The guy got the item and then
painted
it. After he painted it he wanted to return it. I said no. Well after
almost 4 months he won the chargeback! How did paypal let a buyer who
admitted he got the item and there was nothing wrong with it other then
“not liking it” let the customer do a chargeback and win and keep the
item!
That’s right you let him steal it! As far as I know in order to even
start
a chargeback you have to return the merchandise. Is this not true?
Paypal shame on you again for allowing this to happen to a number of
people
“THOUSANDS”!!! It’s call the reverse paypal scam and everyone knows
about
it. And to think you even charged me to “FIGHT” on my behalf. And all I
get
is form letters sent to me. I cant even have a real person talk to me
about
my case.

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Please read this text accompaniment.
This is a live screen recording of hacked hijacked listings on ebay.

Meet the Seller/Victim: fastlanetires (1352)
Member is a PowerSeller
Feedback: 99.7% Positive
Member: since Mar-14-05 in United States
Ebay Store: Fastlane Tires and Wheels

Meet the hijacker’s email address:
saradavidson90@gmail.com
We see when we conduct a quick google that this email address is known to be a hijacker- hackers address. Then we see searching through ebay with that term (email addy) as well as the the seller’s listings. Those items are are fake auctions. The seller/victim did not make them.

Note the bidder, ebay member “scam-listing-dont-bid-dont-contact” we see bidding on the fraudulent listings throughout as we look at individual items.
That is the ebaY’s idea of security in action apparently, rather than to fix the holes.

Do you really trust a site like that?
Should you?
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A few of the hijacked items are:
USO US Optics ST-10 17x Tactical Scope - NEW!!
Item number: 140128335795
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New Nokia N95 phone w/2GB SD memory card included.
Item number: 140128335711
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NEW Nokia N95 QuadBand HSDPA 5MP Camera GPS FM 256MB NR
Item number: 140128335720
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NordicTrack Elite 1300 Exercise Elliptical - NEW IN BOX
Item number: 140128335766
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NEW 2007 SANDSTONE 18′ ROUND ABOVE GROUND SWIMMING POOL
Item number: 140128335470
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Like New Tucker Cheyenne Floral Tooled Trail Saddle NR!
Item number: 140128335415
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New Zeiss Diascope 65mm Straight Spotting Scope #528004
Item number: 140128335741
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NEW RECUMBENT TRIKE II BIKE ALUMINUM
Item number: 140128335729
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New Litespeed Tuscany Titanium Road Bike Ultegra 61cm
Item number: 140128335661
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BRAND NEW - Brownie’s Third Lung - Hookah Diving System
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LOWRANCE LMS-525C GPS FISHFINDER CHARTPLOTTER GPS NEW!
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Mint 2006 Trek Top Fuel 110 - 19.5″ new frame
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NordicTrack Elite 2900 iFIT Exercise Treadmill - NEW
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Scotty Cameron 2003 My Girl II Putter NEW
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Orbea Ordu 54 cm 2006 Durace New! TimeTrial Carbon
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CALLAWAY BERTHA GOLF CLUBS SET GRAPHITE IRONS NEW BAG
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Ebay is HACKED!!! IT is not longer a safe or trustworthy venue.
The HACKING of ebay has very recently been confirmed by the United States Postal Service Postal Inspection Service division, in an article entilted ” U.S. Postal Service Cracks Down On Cyberscams”, published Jun 4, 2007 03:00 PM, on the informationweek.com website. Therein, U.S. Postal Inspector Greg Crabb, program manager for the organization’s international affairs group, discusses über hacker Vladuz, who “has repeatedly gained unauthorized access to areas of eBay’s network…”
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Please visit these sites before you consider using, or continuing to use ebay:
suspendedfromebay.com
nekkidtruth.blogspot.com
www.firemeg.com
www.companyexposed.com
www.theauctionguild.com
www.pheebay.com
www.ebaymotorssucks.com
or you can follow the links from the cappnonymous channel page
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Note: This audio/visual digital document was created using the new & improved ZDSoft Screen Recorder 2.6.2.0, and “Super C v2007 build .22″, on 06-12-2007, @ approximately 21:11:19 Pacific Time.

I am using firefox 2.004 browser, with Adblock Plus, NoScript, Super DragandGo 0.2.6, Image Zoom 0.3, and SlimSearch 0.1.8 extensions, and my “bumped” SpoofStick 1.06, among others.

oops, did I forget again to mention thse listings are live as I edit this text now, Wednesday, Jun 13, 2007 00:26:17 PDT. Not only are they live, but there are more of them.

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Hi, I am thinking about buying this car on ebay, but the bid is too good to be true. First, they start the bidding at $200, and now the bidding is at $2000. The car looks in prefect, almost new, condition. Also, it says "Order an independent inspection." Should I bid for it or is it a scam?The sellers feedback is also 100%. But is it safe?

Thank you for your help!

A lot of the sellers are good people but just like everything else, you will find dimwits. As a car dealer I list for sale and buy a lot of cars thru ebay. No matter what kind of car or price I want I always start the opening bid at $100.00, the reason being is for the most part people will bid when the opening bid is low. I for the most part have a buy it now price for anyone who doesn't want to bid. For the most part almost all my listing have a reserve price, meaning if that amount isn't reached I am not forced to sell the car. I always list cars with the statement this car is for sale locally and can be withdrawn at anytime without notice. That doesn't have to be listed because as long as you haven't been paid, money talks. One of the reason the bidding may have jump is people often put either a maximum or automatic bidding. The independent inspection is a service that I have used and been satisfied. Especially if I can't see the car before bidding ends. I would suggest that you have someone either check out the car if it's close or order the independent inspection. Nothing is worse than buying and paying for something that isn't what you thought it should be like. Remember 1 thing: What is perfect in your eyes may not be to someone else. What's clean to you may not be to someone else. Also as far as the feedback, check out the feedback. Look at what other buyers or sellers say about this person. The feedback is determined by selling or buying activity not by price. If you were selling a car for 5,000 and your buyer has a 100% feedback but the most expensive thing they bought was 3.00 be careful.

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It appears that a major problem has been exposed on ebay forums.
Note that the thread was pulled by ebay.
Here I have the text of the original post, and screencap of the cached first page of the lengthy thread, reduced to 640 width:
http://tinyurl.com/6nwh3j
so that folks may be aware of the issues.
The original location was here (before it was pulled)
http://tinyurl.com/6gmqbj
Thread title:
“Sellers, I just got the following email:”

You will find the entire text and screencaps here:
http://tinyurl.com/573pxs

This has also been posted on various ebay related blogs etc such as auctionbytes and PowerSellersUnite.

There is/was mention of an alleged “San Jose` connection.” btw.

Posted at May-31-08 14:01 PDT on the “Seller Central” forum, also posted on the “PowerSeller” forum.
(where it may still be available at this moment)

You can find every link you need here at my blog;
http://tinyurl.com/573pxs
on the left hand menu areas

BTW, the blog has been updated to include more postings/threads which have been pulled.

This video is parody based, thus any sarcastic subjective profundities are purely intentional.

The contents of this video fall under fair rights use. The creator of this video has no commercial or financial motivations.
Further, materials used herein are integral to the parody element of the video, as I expose the of using ebay and paypal to ebay/ Paypal users and ‘community’ worldwide, at large, in parody.

There is and has an obvious claim to the transformative value.
This is an expressive work, it provides social benefit, by shedding light on an earlier work, and, in the process, creates a totally new one.

;^D

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I hope you dont fall for her ebay scams.she dont cast spells.she is a ebay scammer! save your money.

If I ever were to pay for something magical it would not be through e-bay. But thanks for the warning.

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Hi all,

I bought tickets on ebay last wk for Coldplay concert in Liverpool. Seller said they didnt have the tickets and would post them out once they receive them. Friend has since told me that some people say this and that if u realise its a scam and its after 9 days of purchase you have no comeback with paypal. So im asking if anyone knows of anyone who bought the tickets from ticketmaster and if so have received them in the post.

Thanks a mill

Tickets will be sent out in the next few weeks…it’s a near sell out concert at the Echo Arena with only a few seats left. Tickets have been on sale!

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Fraud on ebay with P90X

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so i just bought an ipod nano 8gb for 250usd off of ebay, to find out a day later after my money has been transferred that the seller has cancelled their account. I filed a claim to paypal to get my money back, but im really not too sure how much they really bother about this kind of stuff.

anyways, has anybody ever got a refund back from paypal after a scam?

also… im guessing its pretty much impossible to catch the seller rite? after all, one he recieves the money and spends it theirs nothing anybody can do about it….

my sister ordered a book and she hasnt recieved it yet..
they usually respond back to you but i don’t know what they’ll do
iif they erased..ii thiink iits worth a try cause iit’s still money..lol..and you do get a refund and the person gets bad comments..but siince he erased iit GOOD LUK!
hope ii helped =]

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