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I've seen that sort of ad before. It's some sort of scam (although I'm not sure what the scam is). It's always a really expensive car with hardly any description and a low starting price.
 
hell yeah. hijacked account or what!? The last item he sold was an Enzo to a "no longer registered bidder". SCAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMM. I give it 'till 4pm when it's off.
 
Hes also got an F360 at £70k+ and an M3 at £1k+ on ebay. Think you ll find (Without Prejudice!) they are not his cars, he gets commission on any sales, not per se a scam. Dare you to bid, and I ll bet you a guinea you dont get what you expect...ps 944turboS, dont offer him your house, because I bet he will take it![8|]
 
The main scam for such auctions are to get your email address and ebay id by you asking questions, which you will if you are bidding; I have mentioned this before and I'll say it again:

DON'T even give out your email address to any ebayer, always use hide my email check both and correspond via the ebay mailing system.
 
Sorry being thick here. So you get an ebay signature name plus an email address, a circumstance that is very common, so what could you do with that information? I must be naieve, presumably you could then email ebayer pretending to be ebay, maybe? Could you enlighten me on your cautiousness THX911? Apologies again for lack of devious mind...
 
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Sorry being thick here. So you get an ebay signature name plus an email address, a circumstance that is very common, so what could you do with that information? I must be naieve, presumably you could then email ebayer pretending to be ebay, maybe? Could you enlighten me on your cautiousness THX911? Apologies again for lack of devious mind...
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You go on a mailing list:
1) your email gets sold as a valid email address for some money and you will start getting junk mail, this is the same reason you should not reply to any junk mail as all you are doing is validating your email address. I assume this is more valuable as they will sell in with a tag: "interested in cars".

2) This is the more likely one for these guys: Now they know your email address and your ebay username, one fine day you will received an email from ebay which will be addressed to your ebay name in the body of the message stating you need to log onto your ebay account ASAP (otherwise it will be cancelled or suspended, etc) and you will see a link which looks like a ebay link but if you click on the properties it will have some long URL taking you to a fake ebay site. Anyway, as majority of the people do not click on properties on links; you will click on the link and you will be taken to a fake ebay site which will look exactly like the ebay site. You will then enter your ebay details and the site script will copy your username and password and hand you over to the real ebay site and you will not suspect a thing. This is how majority of the accounts are hijacked. Yes, majority of the users know about such scam and will not fall for such an email but believe or not a lot of people do...

 
I didn't have to reply to any spam to still get hundreds of messages a day [:(]

It's a valid point you've made about them using it for a phishing scam, but they you shouldn't click on a link in an email anyway.
 
Thanks for that THX911. Would never have thought of option2! I get hardly any junk although my email is plastered all over the net in one form or another. Anyone wants to buy it...I take Paypal![:D]
 
Go on, dare you to bid! Love to see this guys garage...hes got 137 Porsche items listed on ebay, and they all look nice.
 
There was a thing on Watchdog a couple of weeks ago re ebay where they suggested looking at feedback and looking for common phrases and ALL his say prompt payer maybe he just is but..................
 
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