30GB iPod Sells for $1,525 : eBay bidder fake or hacked?
February 22nd, 2007
A normal 30GB iPod selling for $1,525? Diamonds not included!
“This iPod is brand new, the box has been opened but the iPod has not been unwrapped from the plastic or turned on, and all accessories are included and unopened. This is a brand new iPod Video 30GB (not refurbished or second) .”
Picking up the story from TechEBlog, I decided to have a look at the Auction Page. The winning bidder is leah0811. This Brit has a good positive feedback score of 92.6%. Nothing out of the oridnary you may say but if you look at the feedback history there is activity till December 2006 with good positive feedback. There is no activity or feedback in the month of Januray 2007 but by Febuary there is a lot of activity and feedback, all of which are negative.
Here are some of the negative feedbacks from the bidder’s page:
“FAKE BIDDER AVOID!!!!”
“Complete bloody scammer. Cocked up my auction by overbibdding. P*ss off.”
“Fraudulant!!! Bidded ridiculous offer and never paid and never heard from them”
This got me thinking, why would someone with a really good feedback score and history go berserk in Feb. with no activity in Jan.? I think this person’s eBay account was hacked and is now being used to place fake bids all over.
What do you think?
Fake bidder or a fake bidding hacked account?
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:52 pm
hacked account. not the first time. won’t be the last time.
February 25th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Hacked account, there’s no incentive for this eBay user to ruin his/her feedback. However, there’s always a way for this eBay user to rebuild his/her positive feedback from scratch.
February 25th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Another hacked account, well I saw that more and more eBay users have been posting their online auctions as blind auctions in order to avoid these kinds of scams.
March 9th, 2007 at 3:22 am
Hi I am just sending this info all over the web regarding fraud on Ebay. My account was hacked and I WAS NOT PHISHED as Ebay thinks!!! I had someone go into my Ebay, change all my info, name address phone # email address,Messages WERE SENT TO 39 SELLERS, what an F5$#@!! sick person!!!!
This is msgs to Sellers that were in my SENT BOX attached it here:
Dear Seller,
arah.sanders4uuuu1@yahoo.com or MSN mailto
arah.sanders_4uuu1@hotmail.com so that we can talk better so waiting to hear from you soon.
I was very impressed with the advert of the item you placed on this Ebay,l have read through and understand the condition of the product, I am interested and buying for my Pastor as a birthday gift who is in abroad for work of god.I will be offering you US $1,500.00 including shipping cost via USPS Global Express Mail if you can ship worldwide.I will remit the money through Paypal because of highly scam act all over the globe.Could you please send me a paypal payment request from paypal so as to enable me proceed with the payment ASAP,I want you to end the auction immediately to confirm to me your readiness to sell the product to me. and i will like you to add me to my Yahoo Messenger mailto
Thanks.
Sarah.S.
Details for item number: 290090553449
Item title: Collectible HP Laptop ( Lance Armstrong signature Logo)
Item URL: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290090553449&sspagename=ADME:B:AAQ:CA:1
End date: Sunday, Mar 11, 2007 22:35:48 EDT
HOW DO THEY get away with it? Ebay suspended my account until I could get acess, cancel my Paypal acct etc…I think I am just going to close my Ebay account! Anyone know how this is done?
February 2nd, 2008 at 8:35 am
pre teen pageant gown