Ebay fool scam
I came across one of ebays latest scams, the playstation scam. Well its not really anything new actually. Similar scams that misprint items for sale have been going for a very long time, even before ebay and the internet, market traders use similar scams. This scam involved selling the idea of the latest playstation 3, but instead the buyer recieved 3 playstations, the scam was in the title ' 3 playstations' instead of 'playstation 3'.
Though I must say my first thought was 'what fool would buy this scam?' , but many do. And this is just one scam, there are various scams that use the ebay brand for example this one in the link provided.
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Email scam posing as an email from ebay , sent to the loser in a ebay bid to offer a second chance and redirect them to scam their credit card details from them.
I've never been scammed and infact Ive had a good relationship with ebay, Ive never really had a problem, maybe I'm just too observant. However how on earth do people get conned into buying a box instead of a product in the box. Just to eager to purchase, caught up in the rush from bidding maybe, I don't know. What I know is ebay and bidding sites are prime targets by scammers, thousands of people already looking for a deal/ bargain/ something for nothing, they have already opened themselves up to the scams around.
Its like the fortune teller, and people who get sucked in and even go back for more. They say afterwords im not gullible, I was not very closed but she/he said all this stuff that is true. What a scam, the moment they go to a fortune teller , they become targets, they are already willing to believe, they go looking for answers why else would they go, and the scammer gives them exacally what they want to hear . People who dont believe dont go to fortune tellers. The fortune teller has a person whos open, so its easy. The perfect target for scammers.
There will always be scams, that won't change though education is needed to illustrate some of the obvious scams to users, even if they are blind to them and only see shiny things.
Though I must say my first thought was 'what fool would buy this scam?' , but many do. And this is just one scam, there are various scams that use the ebay brand for example this one in the link provided.
LINK
Email scam posing as an email from ebay , sent to the loser in a ebay bid to offer a second chance and redirect them to scam their credit card details from them.
I've never been scammed and infact Ive had a good relationship with ebay, Ive never really had a problem, maybe I'm just too observant. However how on earth do people get conned into buying a box instead of a product in the box. Just to eager to purchase, caught up in the rush from bidding maybe, I don't know. What I know is ebay and bidding sites are prime targets by scammers, thousands of people already looking for a deal/ bargain/ something for nothing, they have already opened themselves up to the scams around.
Its like the fortune teller, and people who get sucked in and even go back for more. They say afterwords im not gullible, I was not very closed but she/he said all this stuff that is true. What a scam, the moment they go to a fortune teller , they become targets, they are already willing to believe, they go looking for answers why else would they go, and the scammer gives them exacally what they want to hear . People who dont believe dont go to fortune tellers. The fortune teller has a person whos open, so its easy. The perfect target for scammers.
There will always be scams, that won't change though education is needed to illustrate some of the obvious scams to users, even if they are blind to them and only see shiny things.
posted by katie kaboom at 5:52 PM
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