I wish I have $14,000 to get this

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...=5337

 

It's a scam. This has been happening a lot lately. The scammer, who is usually located in Europe, hacks into an eBay account, puts up for sale a car that he doesn't own, and runs away with the payment.

When it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

If you want to see the REAL listing that the scammer stole the photos and VIN from, click here. Asking price: $64,989.

Now, I'll go tell eBay...



Modified by nsxtasy at 9:22 PM 7/8/2004

 

gone already

 

I wonder if the FBI had track him down yet? I also herd story like this on the Fox news and I saw many people got scanned for it

 

I'm glad eBay took that **** down.

 

You couldn't get a 91 for that much...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by dclub01 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">You couldn't get a 91 for that much...</TD></TR></TABLE>

nope, unless it was an auction and i would doubt that

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by nsxtasy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">It's a scam. This has been happening a lot lately. The scammer, who is usually located in Europe, hacks into an eBay account, puts up for sale a car that he doesn't own, and runs away with the payment.

When it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

If you want to see the REAL listing that the scammer stole the photos and VIN from, click here. Asking price: $64,989.

Now, I'll go tell eBay...


Modified by nsxtasy at 9:22 PM 7/8/2004</TD></TR></TABLE>

yea that **** is crap. i saw one going for $9500. i e-mailed the guy and said he was from london. said he bought the car here and moved there saying you can't drive lhd's there, dunno if that's true or not but it's definitely a scam.

 

I had the highest bid when the auction ended a few days ago. Below is a copy of the dialog that followed with the (not so) smooth (wanna-be) scammer...

eBay Motors (endofitem@ebayus.com) wrote:
Congratulations eBay member! You are added on the approved buyer list... blah, blah, blah

ojas wrote:
What happened to your auction? The item is no longer on ebay (Invalid Item error). I won the item and am entitled to the automobile.

Jdnmcec AUTOS (jdnmcec@aol.com) wrote:
The car is no longer listed because we asked eBay to take off the auction from the site because we had too many demands for it and we already find a buyer, you. Please see the attach for more pics and let us know your answer.

ojas wrote:
Give me your phone number so we can work out the remaining details.

Jdnmcec AUTOS (jdnmcec@aol.com) wrote:
The vehicles we list generate enormous interest. We were getting more than 600 calls a day. We spent ALL day on the phones. Which isn't a bad thing if your talking to people ready to buy a vehicle, but too much of our time was spent with people just wanting to talk. Anyway you can contact us at jdnmcec@aol.com.
We employed "phone idiots" to handle the calls. A "phone idiot" is a person given the vital task of answering a company's phones, but they know virtually nothing about the business and typically do more harm than good. However they work cheap and they free up the valuable people within the company so that they can run the business.
Our valuable people are busy in areas requiring their particular expertise and thus are unavailable to answer phones. Or simply put, their time is more valuably served with other tasks. Therefore we were forced to employ a legion of "phone idiots". We soon found this to be a poor remedy. Regrettably we were left with no other practical solution than to require everyone to contact us exclusively by email.
Anyway, you have been approved to buy this car and you got all the instructions regarding the payment but we don't have your shipping address. So as soon as we receive the transfer details (the mtcn and the sender's full name and address that you filled in on the Western Union transfer request) from you, eBay warehouse will have the car sent to you and you will receive it by DAS insured in max five business days. Don't forget to send us your shipping address.

ojas wrote:
Oh, yeah. That makes sense. If you can answer the following simple questions to my satisfaction, I will send you the money ASAP:

You wrote:
&gt; The car is no longer listed because we asked eBay to
&gt; take off the auction from the site because we had too
&gt; many demands for it and we already find a buyer, you.

1) This is not the normal procedure. Invalid item error will not appear if the auction ends with a winning bidder. This normally occurs when ebay removes an fraudulent item. What's the real reason eBay removed the item?

You wrote:
&gt; Please see the attach for more pics and let us know
&gt; your answer.

2) Answer for what? You already said I am the buyer.

3) Why should I trust a spoofed "Congratulations!" email from "ebayus.com," which is clearly not the real ebay?

4) Since when does eBay store items for sale in a "warehouse in San Francisco, CA?"

5) How can this item be in this warehouse and in a dealership in Georgia (4300 kilometers away) at the same time?

Thanks - Have a good weekend.

 

yeah my bud also got scammed the same way. there was an m3 for sale for 14k but the car was located in london. So he emailed the buy and he told us that he will ship the car if we sent him a down payment of 4k. who does that? it was total bs

 

Good stuff Ojas.

Man, I wonder how many people actually fall for this type of stuff.

 

every good car deal on ebay is a scam

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RIPracing &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">every good car deal on ebay is a scam</TD></TR></TABLE>

in other words they go for what theyre worth.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Hites Undying &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

in other words they go for what theyre worth. </TD></TR></TABLE>
Yes...50,000$ for a 93 toyota supra NA with 100,000miles..... i guess in your little rich mind thats what it worth

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RIPracing &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
Yes...50,000$ for a 93 toyota supra NA with 100,000miles..... i guess in your little rich mind thats what it worth </TD></TR></TABLE>

you have indeed found the one single exception. god damn f&f made it impossible to get a supra for what its actually worth.

btw, who the hell made the mouse a MOO smiley on this thread?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Hites Undying &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">btw, who the hell made the mouse a MOO smiley on this thread?</TD></TR></TABLE>
It’s not isolated to this thread: It’s the entire site. Um... So who hacked into honda-tech: PETA (Cows are cool) or the dairy organization (got milk?)

 

Haha...got the same thing. And here I thought it was my wife messing with me.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Ponyboy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">And here I thought it was my wife messing with me.</TD></TR></TABLE>
...Discreet, nearly subliminal, way to say "Honey, have you put on a little weight?"

An explanation of all the recent MOO can be found here. Err... maybe not.


Modified by ojas at 11:41 PM 7/20/2004