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Posted by David Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Thursday, October 07, 2010 at 20:55:36 :
In Reply to: Re: Ebay car sale scammer busted posted by Jerry in Idaho [64.139.238.43] on Thursday, October 07, 2010 at 19:42:38 :
I hope they take it all the way to the top. This walmart-worker lady they caught doesn't sound very bright "renting" her bank account to the real crooks. The guys behind this are clearly pretty clever to use bank accounts already set up by naive but greedy dimwits rather than opening accounts in their own names. Maybe they're in Lithuania with so many layers of phony companies between themselves and the front people that even the SS can't track them down. But I hope they try.
I had a Russian try to scam me out of my ebay password in a very clever way once. He send me an email, in good English, saying that he was interested in an item I was selling, but wondered why I was asking more money than a similar one that some other person was selling. He helpfully provided a link to the ebay listing for the other item. The problem was that it was link to a counterfeit ebay page. I should have looked at the full URL of the link, but I didn't. The giveaway was that when I clicked on it, it asked me to log in, which real ebay wouldn't have done since I was already logged in to real ebay. Then I looked at the URL and saw it had ".ebay.ru/" in the middle of it.
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