The article makes a key point that offers a clue that this is not an internal job or even a rogue employee but a very sophisticated scheme involving an actual legitimate seller (or someone with access to a legitimate seller's account).
It supposes that jrengineer70 has actually previously sold things to the people he/she is scamming. So he a) knows what you are interested in, and b) knows your email address from previous winning bids. Then he looks for similar items to the one he sold you (say he sold you a T206 Southern Leaguer he knows you may also be into other T206 SLs of a higher price tag). Then he matches your known eBay handle to one of the other bidders on someone else's auction. Say your actual handle is T206lover with a 56 feedback score and he sees other bids that are T*******r56 he knows it is probably you who did the bidding. He knows your email address from a previous sale and takes a chance by sending you the second chance offer.
The interesting question would be whether any those who posted saying they received these offers have actually won auctions through jrengineer70 previously? If not then this theory is totally bunk...but it seems like it would be plausible.
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