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* Beware * Fraudulent Ebay oscilloscope listings
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EE-digger:
There are dozens of fraudulent medium to very high end oscilloscope listings on ebay.  We're talking 1GHz up to tens of GHz (at other times).

They generally take the form of an auction and have stolen credentials or otherwise listed using the account of a legitimate, good ebay seller.

Some listings will show a picture with a message "do not bid", "we do not answer emails, use this address" or other "clues".

In the details, there will be a buy it now price mentioned and an address to reply to, very illegitimate, typically containing two dot coms in the address.

It takes about 10 seconds to report these and Ebay does strip ALL of them almost immediately.  Once they lock onto a new characteristic of the listing, I'm sure they can kill them all with one "round".

They can be quite a nuisance when you're searching for something legitimate and MUCH worse if you get suckered into sending money.
jjoonathan:
I noticed the scammer used different pictures this time. For years, it used to be the exact same batch of pictures. I guess ebay finally got around to blocking the old batch, lol.

The scam listings still have the telltale red and blue comic sans text, though.
EE-digger:
And they certainly are persistent.  But I guess if you can scam $5k to (God forbid) $120k on one deal, it's worth it for a days work  :D
free_electron:
he's got lots of stuff listed.
Mechatrommer:
Not just dso, it happened to dslr camera and other high end stuff since decade ago... not just ebay, but fb, email, whatsapp etc, the successors of mailbox letter and snake oil street market scam since before the invention of internet... however the tricks are, if you want a generic fight all antibody, the rule is simple... dont pay direct money transfer if you dont have the stuff in front of you... train your instinct to auto activate the firewall when somebody requesting it..
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