Pretty common eBay scam. Don't reply. Report to eBay (who is death on this sort of thing).
-Adam On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I had made $1432 (firing order, dontcha know) bid on some gear, a K20, > 16-50, 50-135 and other goodies. I decided to drop out of the race and > the auction went for $1800. > > I got a message, from yet another ebay account, saying that the person > who won the auction didn't have the money, and they are offering it to > me at the price I bid, please contact them at such and such an email > address, where they need my ebay account, real name, address etc. so > that they can go through ebay procedures to sell me the gear at the > price I bid at, and they won't charge shipping. > > Why a different account? It's her husband's account. The account that > was selling the gear has not responded to my queries. I'm about 87.3% > convinced that someone is working a scam, though I'm not sure how they > managed to contact me through ebay. > > Is there any reason that I shouldn't just report this to ebay's fraud > department? If I should, who would I report it to? > > > -- > It's not the steps in the dance, it's the dance in the steps. > Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
