Elopotrading in ebay. A scam?

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cvrle1

·Jan 19, 2020

This same scammer/scammers post once every few months a bunch of watches. Since accounts they use get shut down, they will post under different account every time. I believe they steal account that have a lot of positive feedback so that it looks more legit.

 

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VetPsychWars

·Jan 19, 2020

If you look closely at their "ebay.com" link you can see that there are dots instead of slashes.

Tom

 

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Larry S

·Jan 19, 2020·Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.

Jeez ... this reads like the VM transcriptions telling me that my SS number is about to be invalidated forever unless I call this number. Do people actually fall for this?

 

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VetPsychWars

·Jan 19, 2020

I did on etsy. Just lucky the scammer realized I knew what I was talking about and refunded me.

Tom

 

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GandOsDad

·Jan 19, 2020

K KP-99

If you see this buying-now-offers in the description, it is a scam.
Always same type of writing, always trying to guide you on another website.
Take care and report them to ebay, if you see such a scam.

Ebay should reward folks who do this.....at least 30 fake Omega and Rolex notifications to admins and 😕

 

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Watchman18

·Jan 20, 2020

Yeah, this is a total scam! Sat 1/18/20 seller who apparently hijacked a real seller, elopotrading, was offering Buy It Now offers for Rolexes at $2600 USD. Didn’t make sense bec every watch no matter what they were had the same $2600 offer. Even bicycles had the same offer. The catch is that you have to go to the link which was not clickable, actually had to copy & paste it into address bar which then sent you to a page pretending to be eBay asking for your email. The next day 2 emails arrive one from “seller”/scammer & the other from “eBay” pretending to be an official looking invoice with fake transaction number. The seller then says that he just closed his pawn shop & is liquidating everything & moving to Italy & needs to sell everything fast so wants payment through a bank wire (see below). I repeatedly ask to complete payment through eBay platform saying that the fraud protections only work if transaction go through eBay. He tries to claim otherwise & sends a fake link to eBay helpline which is some live text help which is busy. End up calling the scammer out & calling bullshit on him.

 

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cvrle1

·Jan 28, 2020

It didnt take long, same scammer just spammed ebay yet again with bunch of watches for sale. He is even selling a forklift for $2600 LOL

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hyster-Forklift-30-000lbs-lift-H300A/303464843747

 

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prontoprint

·Jan 28, 2020

cvrle1

It didnt take long, same scammer just spammed ebay yet again with bunch of watches for sale. He is even selling a forklift for $2600 LOL

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hyster-Forklift-30-000lbs-lift-H300A/303464843747

Pretty decent postage costs though ;-)

 

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oinkitt

·Jan 28, 2020

another one up and running

https://www.ebay.com/sch/beautymall2017/m.html?item=303464844734&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

 

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cvrle1

·Jan 28, 2020

oinkitt

another one up and running

https://www.ebay.com/sch/beautymall2017/m.html?item=303464844734&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

2891 items to be exact, for now. I have no idea how eBay doesnt permaban scammers like this.

 

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gefmey

·Jan 28, 2020

I posted back in december about similar scam listings under thread: "Tis the season"

There are some amazing watches listed by the seller hello-8season. Unfortunately I'd say this is a hacked account based on the seller in China typically selling household items selling for a couple of $ or GBP. Already pulled by ebay though.

Seems to have changed names but the same watches. What will the next scam name be???

 

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Dr.K

·Jan 30, 2020

mzinski

Wow! Just came across this too and had similar thoughts.
Figured I’d try to win an auction. If things fall apart rely on eBay or PayPal protection.

Waiting to hear a report back! 😀

 

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mzinski

·Jan 30, 2020

Dr.K

Waiting to hear a report back! 😀

Oh, sorry! The auction disappeared after a day. Meh!

 

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guinsburg

·Apr 23, 2020

Yeah, the logos are all screwy. I got to the point where I clicked the “chat with EBay” button, and apparently there’s a live scammer on the other side.

I am not proud of the obscenities hurled at the bimbo

 

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guinsburg

·Apr 23, 2020

FYI

 

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Deafboy

·Apr 23, 2020·His Holiness Puer Surdus

guinsburg

FYI

What information?

 

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apsm100

·Apr 23, 2020·Noob taxpayer

These scams are getting on my nerves. Happens pretty frequently now.
I am guessing the real owners of the eBay accounts are getting hacked via phishing emails.
2 factor authentication should be mandatory to stop this.

 

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BrianPankow

·Apr 23, 2020

Hello,
About ten days ago I encountered the same thing from a different sellers name, though everything else looks the same. I informed Ebay. They’re response was a very sincere ‘thank you’ and that the sellers items were removed. They could not tell me the reason they (EBay) removed them for ‘security reasons.’ So yes, some sort of scam.