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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

One of the new major scams on e-bay is using a fake payment or escrow
service.  You think your protected when in actuality you simply gave the
scammer what he wanted anyway.

I would be very wary.  See if they will agree to use Paypal or iescrow.  And
don't back down on it.  If they won't, then something is up.  Both are very
easy to use.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar AT maduixa.net>
To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/";
<internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 1:16 PM
Subject: [internetworkers] eBay shopping help


> Hi,
>
> I've found a Laptop on eBay [0], at a very interesting price. Now that I
got
> the info to do the bank wire... I did some research on Google about the
> banking info and I found some information related to the payment method.
>
> It uses a payment method through WebMoney  [1]  I've never heard of it,
but
> I've never shopped before on ebay anyway. It looks like this is a secure
> payment method . But, again, I don't know.
>
> Then, I found the payment method (same account) mentioned in several sites
[2]
> - online gaming (StarCraft) on Russia [2a]
> - increasing your "russian manliness" [2b]
> - Scammers on Russian brides agencies [2c]
>
> They told me that they are based on Spain (of all places!) but their email
> address is from a free email provider that i never heard of  [3a], when
there
> are many and well-known free email services in Spain [3b]
>
> The cost of shipping is lower than expected. I won't complain about it.
But
> I've checked the weight for the laptop in it's original box (Amazon) and
that
> weight makes the shipping on both DHL[4a] and UPS [4b] is about  $170. And
> it's a bulky thing (I expect it to be), so it will probably be a little
more.
> But the price goes up for  only ~$100 from the selling price.
>
> I don't know. Maybe I'm too paranoid (I'm a sysadmin after all). Maybe
this is
> a proper way of doing business. Or maybe this is too good pice and it's a
> scam.
>
> If you want to comment me on this by private email or through the list or
> both, great. I can provide the original emails if needed or any other
> information.
>
>
>
> Salut,
> Josep
>
>
> [0]
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3406415096
>
> [1]
> - WebMoney:
> http://www.wmtransfer.com/
> http://www.webmoney.ru/
>
> [2a]
> http://www.broodwar.com/
> http://www.wgtour.com/news.php?idN=707&datab=broodwar
>
http://forum.starcraft.org.ru/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3412&FORUM_ID=43&CAT_ID=1&F
orum_Title=%CD%EE%E2%EE%F1%F2%E8&Topic_Title=Rulez+Race+Wars
> [2b]
> http://www.good-penis.com/index.php (translation below)
>
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?url=http%3A//www.good-penis.com/
index.php&lp=ru_en
> [2c]
> http://www.antiscam.org/scammers/Elena_Loveland.shtml
>
> [3a]
> http://www.adios.net --> http://www.inbox.net/
> [3b]
> http://www.terra.es
>
> --
> Josep L. Guallar-Esteve Eastern Radiologists, Inc.
> MaDuIxA PoWeR!
>
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