Be AFRAID be very AFRAID!!

Tigerpaw · Post by **Tigerpaw** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:33 pm

Just a quick note to let you all in on a ebay/square trade scam that got me this week. I bought a ATV off ebay for what I thought was a good price. (to good to be true.) the seller stated that they wanted to use square trade to ensure both of our safety.Thinking that this was a good plan I delt with square trade through e-mails ect. The moneys were sent to the seller (Kathy Hale) through western union but I only faxed the pickup # to square trade. They were not to send the # to Kathy Hale until I received the ATV. As it turns out this person has setup web pages that are the same as ebay and square trade with workable links and all but it is all fake!! What I had done is fax the pickup # right to this fake Kathy Hale. I was in contact with ebay and square trade this morning and they said sorry but it happens alot. all they could do was to post the scam on their web site. I geuss that these guys must just get away with this sort of thing. It looks like I have learned a hard lesson and now I can start to save up for a fourwheeler agian Beware of the scams they are getting good!!

DesertRat · Post by **DesertRat** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:43 pm

OUCH!!!!

GaryL · Post by **GaryL** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:59 pm

Tigerpaw can't western union stop payment on the wire? The last time I did anything on e-bay was thru a escrow deal by ebay.

Hope you can charge someone or they can track down the people..

Tigerpaw · Post by **Tigerpaw** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 4:07 pm

I called western union and they said that someone in athens pickedup the money the next morning at 915

Camper · Post by **Camper** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 4:14 pm

So what did you get nailed for???
Camper

GaryL · Post by **GaryL** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 4:18 pm

Well *hit happens and we learn sometimes the hard way

They must have had fake ID also or they could not have picked up the money. Last wire I got while camping a few years ago I had to show my drivers lic. and another form of ID such as a credit card.

Don't mean they all ask for two means of I.D. Maybe with a little luck they will catch them sooner or later..hopefully sooner

Sliver · Post by **Sliver** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:05 pm

That really is *hitty,, sorry to hear about your loss,,,, But thanks for the heads up on that particular scam.

Harry

Woodsman · Post by **Woodsman** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:19 pm

What a total bummer! Thanks for the heads up. How much are you out of?

Tigerpaw · Post by **Tigerpaw** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:42 pm

How much did I lose? Lets just say less then a new sportman 700 but more then a few new ecomaxes Another point that square trade said to watch for is that ebay is not affiliated with square trade so if you are ever to receive a e-mail with both names on it dump it. I am going hunting the end of this month so other then the fact that I will now be hauling my buck out instead of driving it out it should cheer me up.

Sandman · Post by **Sandman** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 7:07 pm

That's too bad TP!

wildwindom · Post by **wildwindom** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:21 pm

Sorry about your luck bud mine aint to good either.

Jim C · Post by **Jim C** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:51 pm

I hope you have contacted the FBI since this is wire fraud, at minimum and has federal ramifications

Brampton Mike · Post by **Brampton Mike** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 4:54 am

Sorry to hear about yoru screwing......Sure hope you got the POLICE involved!!!!!!!!!

Brampton Mike

Iamcdneh · Post by **Iamcdneh** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:39 am

damn! sorry to hear about that, I would not be able to contain my anger especially since we all work hard for our toys. what bothers me more is that everytime i read one of these ebay scams ebays response is oh well, it happens!

wabi · Post by **wabi** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:46 am

Sorry to hear of your bad luck, but glad to get the tip.
eBay and PayPal are very useful, but the buzzards sure gather to pick any meat left on the bones. I just got a spoof email this morning wanting me to go to the scam artist's website and update my credit card info. I do forward all these fake emails to [email protected] , but I wonder just haw many crooks are really brought to justice?