Scams and Spoof emals on eBay
By BAD_VLAD
@BAD_VLAD (107)
United States
April 15, 2007 7:18am CST
How do fight against Nigeria Scamers on eBay? what do you do when you know that the highest bider is scamer and he wont pay? DO you offer your item imedialty as a second chance offer or do you wait 7 days for payment and then ofer it as second chance offer?
1 response
@tajinder_18 (324)
• Malaysia
16 Apr 07
last time when i was new i met all of nigerian scammers.even if i already stated there i am not gonna ship it to overseas but they still kept on bidding my item.i do received a lot of emails as well till i was bored.after i earn some positive feedbacks no more nigerians bidding on my item.i was almost being cheated as well when i was still new.i almost ship out my phone to nigeria.luckily the customs said they do not allow handphones to be send to overseas.because of that i was lucky.or else i would end up losing a new phone and posting fees which were so expensive.if i knew the bidder is nigerians i would definitely report to ebay and cancel the transaction and give it as second chance offer
@BAD_VLAD (107)
• United States
16 Apr 07
The problem is not only that they might trick you ,to make you send your item to Nigeria,but if you respond to their fake e-mails, you are taking chances that tracking cookies might be installed in your computer and then they can steal your password from your eBay, pay pal or credit cards accounts.I'm new on ebay, but I was attacked from those idiots scamers as soon as I've posted my first item for sale.I've read a loot about internet security,and now I fell pretty much safe doing transaction on eBay.