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Ebay SCAMS?
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nctnico:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 14, 2022, 11:40:33 am ---What's the deal with this ebay store?
Stuff like used test gear, supposed based in Bondi Junction in Sydney with massive feedback and reputation, but a dodgy image saying that all bids wil be removed, and if interested to email some dodgy domain that doesn't exist?

I can understand these scams, but how do they get 47,000 feedback and 99.7% feedback? I can only presume these are hijacked ebay store, like Youtube channel get hijacked?

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Yes, accounts get hacked to place fraudulent listings. That is always the case with these kind of scam listings that have been going on for at least a decade. A tell-tale sign is that suddenly the seller starts selling completely different items. Nothing new here really.
richnormand:
@EEVblog
So they are back at it again....

There are a few posts back to 2020 about this same technique and, if I remember correctly, using the same "instruction" page as you presented.

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/suspicious-ebay-seller/msg3397736/#msg3397736

After about a month or so they seemed to be removed quickly by ebay.

I assumed at the time they used a highjacked account with good ratings and that ebay would not detect the fraud since the "instructions" were in the photos.
There are a few other threads on eevblog about this.

alm:
This has been a recurring scam for at least two years. Once every couple of days or weeks, another account gets hacked, filled with all kinds of auctions for expensive items, like test equipment, guitars, etc, and stating somewhere either in the description or one of the pictures that you should contact them outside eBay. Generally eBay removes them within 24h. It's been quiet for a number of months, but it happened a couple of times this week.

Checking the description and pictures carefully should make it easy to spot. Also, I doubt if anything bad will happen if you bid on eBay, since the item will be removed before the auction finishes. Worst case they send you a message asking you to send money in a way that's not traceable and without the ability to get money back. Just don't email random people you have zero information of and send them money...
gslick:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 14, 2022, 11:49:53 am ---Might be a video on this warning people tomorrow.

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Next you'll be making a new video warning people not to buy speakers out of the back of a white van (in case they didn't see your first video on the subject).


jjoonathan:
The Comic Sans Scammers have struck every Friday for years. They are sloppy as all get out -- same listings, same text, same strategy -- but eBay can't be bothered to spend a couple of intern-days giving chase. eBay takes 13% of every sale and they can't even sweep the floors. Ugh.
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