ebay - criminal intent (a little off topic)

[earlywynnfan]

Poof!!

[thehoodedcoder]

your two links don't line up. the bottom one takes you to an item list, not a specific listing.

kevin

[Section115]

Originally Posted by thehoodedcoder

your two links don't line up. the bottom one takes you to an item list, not a specific listing.



kevin

The item has been removed by eBay.


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[sports-rings]

Thanks for your help!

Boy, you think ebay would want to make alerting them a little easier!

[sports-rings]

He's at it again....

Here's the newest link.... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Foresight-GC...item1e86173459

stealing my pictures and description again. He does not have the gc2 and is trying to get people to pay directly and not thru paypal.

I tried to alert ebay but they are oblivious.

I'm thinking of taking a picture in my conference room in the same location as the photos he's using with a sign showing his email address and also writing that he is out to rip you off and put it in an ebay auction.

Can someone alert ebay? Do you think I should do the auction to alert bidders or should I just leave it alone?

Thanks!

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by sports-rings

He's at it again....

Here's the newest link.... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Foresight-GC...item1e86173459

stealing my pictures and description again. He does not have the gc2 and is trying to get people to pay directly and not thru paypal.

I tried to alert ebay but they are oblivious.

I'm thinking of taking a picture in my conference room in the same location as the photos he's using with a sign showing his email address and also writing that he is out to rip you off and put it in an ebay auction.

Can someone alert ebay? Do you think I should do the auction to alert bidders or should I just leave it alone?

Thanks!

I can not believe ebay does not cancel the auction because of the email address in the description. I have alerted ebay to many fake/altered cards and nothing has ever happened, they just want there cut of the sale. Now I just see them shake my head and move on.

Good luck, I hope you can get this scammers listing pulled.

[cardsfan73]

Ebay pays more attention when you report a listing that is trying to avoid ebay fees. I reported the listing for this reason, hope it gets pulled.

I know the bigger deal is the fact that it's fraud, but ebay does not seem so concerned with that.

[lharri3600]

Originally Posted by bnorth

i can not believe ebay does not cancel the auction because of the email address in the description. I have alerted ebay to many fake/altered cards and nothing has ever happened, they just want there cut of the sale. Now i just see them shake my head and move on.

Good luck, i hope you can get this scammers listing pulled.

you think they really care?

[RichardSimon]

delete

[sports-rings]

Thanks everyone, I appreciate your help!

The auction may have been cancelled again, but my scammer put it back again.

I think I have a new way to stop him from using my photos, sadly, this will not stop him from stealing other items from unsuspecting sellers.

I put up a bogus gc2 item for sale, with the following picture. Just some background: very few gc2's sell on ebay, perhaps a handful a year and they are very sought after. Unlike a common item with dozens of listings everyday,
anyone bidding on his auction will see my auction too.



Here's the link and warning message if you are interested.....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Foresight-GC...item1c3bb3aab8

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Very clever. I like it.

[lharri3600]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/131098686553...84.m1438.l2649

[cardsfan73]

You would think ebay would just ban the seller already. Reported again.

[sports-rings]

some of the people who bid on his bogus golf simulator told me that he creates new ebay accounts all the time and that he tries to con them into sending money. He even sends a bogus ebay invoice to them that looks real.

Ah, ebay, gotta love it!

[sports-rings]

some ebay bidders are as outraged as I am. One promised to help and conned the conman into supplying wiring instructions.

Here they are:

I don't have a phone number but here are the wire instructions he forwarded to me

Beneficiary: Kenneth Washington
Bank name: Wells Fargo
City, State: San Francisco, CA
SWIFT Code: WFBIUS6S
Routing Number: 121000248
Account Number: 2454280369
Country: United States


If you were me should I email this clown and threaten to contact the bank? Or the local authorities?

Or publish this on my website?

Or can someone contact ebay (they don't seem to care).

any other ideas?

thanks

[drmondobueno]

Hmmm. Wire fraud?

[steve B]

Originally Posted by sports-rings

some ebay bidders are as outraged as I am. One promised to help and conned the conman into supplying wiring instructions.

Here they are:

I don't have a phone number but here are the wire instructions he forwarded to me

Beneficiary: Kenneth Washington
Bank name: Wells Fargo
City, State: San Francisco, CA
SWIFT Code: WFBIUS6S
Routing Number: 121000248
Account Number: 2454280369
Country: United States


If you were me should I email this clown and threaten to contact the bank? Or the local authorities?

Or publish this on my website?

Or can someone contact ebay (they don't seem to care).

any other ideas?

thanks

Why threaten? Just report him. I'd start with the postal inspectors and just lay out all the facts and have printouts of the pages. Eventually it will involve the mail, and that's their area. As a bonus, even if they don't do anything, if he gets on their radar there's no statute of limitations on crimes involving the mail.
After that, the local authorities and the bank. and even if they don't care, Ebay/paypal.

Eventually someone might care. Although it's likely too small at this point.

Steve B

[drmondobueno]

Originally Posted by lharri3600

http://www.ebay.com/itm/131098686553...84.m1438.l2649

Is this guy shilling his own crooked auction? Unbelievable.

[sports-rings]

not only is he shilling... he set up a domain...

get this...

He has created a domain (fvn-ebay.com) through Tucows only 3 weeks ago.
link here...
http://who.is/whois/fvn-ebay.com

this way he can send bogus emails that look like they came from ebay.

You think ebay would care....

[callou2131]

Ebay does not care. They have now gotten as bad as auction universe was and Yahoo auctions were. I have literally reported hundreds of Fraudulent Cards, Sigs, Counterfiet items, Fake Game used items, (i know, ebay police blah blah) and I have never had a single item get pulled. Most recently was a fake patched Gretzky Auto card that was numbered. Sold for over $3,000. They now wont let you see the buyer of the item to warn them either. EBAY is setting their own site up to help with fraud while screwing honest sellers.

[callou2131]

BTW I am the high bidder.