topic Re: Beware Fraudulent Seller in Buying

Beware Fraudulent Seller

ju-666396 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:42:52 GMT

BEWARE of seller. He is giving his customers a fraudulent returns address in Carrum Downs, Victoria, which is not his own. Do not send your parcel off, as you will never see it returned to you from him. He has been doing this for the past two years; we have had enough; all parcels are now sent to Vic Police.

Re: Beware Fraudulent Seller

*casey* — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:15:34 GMT

What an absolute mess of the boards !

I'll repeat what I posted earlier.

I can assure you that no-one here needs to be warned.

We all know how to use eBay's Money Back Guarantee and we all know exactly how to receive a refund for an item not as described or a faulty item.

And none of us here would ever deal with a very obvious dropshipping seller with 88 negative and 134 neutral feedback !

Re: Beware Fraudulent Seller

sandypebbles — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:20:21 GMT

Beware of supporting scammer sellers in the first place

Beware failing to follow the correct process to obtain a refund

Spamming the forum 7 times with the same thing helps nobody

You ignored all the negs etc the scammer had, why would anyone take notice of 'don't do what I do do what I say?

Plus you agreed not to name and shame, which you did at least 7 times

You mad the choice to support the scammer, and then played along with the scammer games rather than take the option to be covered by eBay

Re: Beware Fraudulent Seller

ju-666396 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:54:23 GMT

OMG Read my post again, I am not a buyer from this corrupt, fraudulent scammer. I am the one receiving all this scammer - fake return address parcels, trying to be sent back to him by his buyers. All I can do is warn them and now send them on to the police sandypebbles.

Re: Beware Fraudulent Seller

sandypebbles — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:23:27 GMT

Nowhere di d you mention in any of your spam did you say the items were being sent to you

Nowhere, at any point did you say such a thing

Plus you posted under 'buying' (and numerous other threads such as community feedback etc etc etc)

And even so, still no reason to spam the forum over and over with the same thing

Re: Beware Fraudulent Seller

*casey* — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:18:25 GMT

If you ever post on the boards again, you'll need to make your position very clear.

Everything in your 7 threads indicated you were a buyer.

The moderators of the forum thought so too.

After removing 4 of your threads, they even 'moved' 2 of your threads to the Buying Board.

When it was pointed out to them there were still 3 identical threads, they removed the other 2.

Re: Beware Fraudulent Seller

*casey* — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:20:07 GMT

@ju-666396 wrote:
" from this corrupt, fraudulent scammer"

This is probably a silly question but have you reported everything to eBay ? More than once ? Over and over ?

Yet another Chinese scammer and even with ALL the bad feedback is still being called

Top Rated seller:

One of eBay's most reputable sellers.
Consistently delivers outstanding customer service.

Re: Beware Fraudulent Seller

springyzone — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:39:34 GMT

I've missed your other posts and name of seller etc but I am having trouble working out how this scam works.

Okay, you receive the parcels from the buyers, they are returns.

But they had to get the address from somewhere. Either the seller provides a postage label (for items posted in Australia) or else he would have to tell buyers the address.

If he did this in messages, then buyers should have proof that that was the address provided and tracking should show it delivered to that address so you'd think buyers would then qualify for a refund.

Or are these items that are not strictly speaking, returns through ebay as such, but change of mind returns where maybe buyer has asked to exchange size or whatever?

Are you able to open packages and see if buyer details are in there so you can at least message them where their parcel is (before handing to police).

And casey is right. Each and every time it happens, let ebay know-name of seller and name of buyer if you can. Whether they will ever do anything is another matter but it is worth a try.

Re: Beware Fraudulent Seller

lezned-toycollector — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:27:48 GMT

@springyzone wrote:
I've missed your other posts and name of seller etc but I am having trouble working out how this scam works.

Okay, you receive the parcels from the buyers, they are returns.
But they had to get the address from somewhere. Either the seller provides a postage label (for items posted in Australia) or else he would have to tell buyers the address.
If he did this in messages, then buyers should have proof that that was the address provided and tracking should show it delivered to that address so you'd think buyers would then qualify for a refund.

Or are these items that are not strictly speaking, returns through ebay as such, but change of mind returns where maybe buyer has asked to exchange size or whatever?

Are you able to open packages and see if buyer details are in there so you can at least message them where their parcel is (before handing to police).

And casey is right. Each and every time it happens, let ebay know-name of seller and name of buyer if you can. Whether they will ever do anything is another matter but it is worth a try.

Mail tampering is a Federal offence, so this probably wouldn't be wise.

The correct course of action would be to simply write on the parcel "RTS Not at this address".... then hand it back to the SPDO or contractor - or drop it in a red box or lodge at any AP outlet.

Re: Beware Fraudulent Seller

springyzone — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:02:07 GMT

I guess that could work if the address of the sender is on the outside of the parcel but I don't get the impression it can be as OP is handing parcels over to police and apparently has been doing this for some time. If the address of sender was clearly visible, police would have long since told them to do that.

Re: Beware Fraudulent Seller

domino-710 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:23:33 GMT

This - seemingly has been occurring for sometime - not 1 or 2 - numerous.

The advised thing to do is report this to police - so there is a record.

The OP is doing the correct thing - let them deal with it.

Re: Beware Fraudulent Seller

*casey* — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:57:10 GMT

"I am having trouble working out how this scam works"

Absolutely awful seller but after having another look, I'm not entirely sure that 'all' of these parcels are actually a scam.

There's nothing in the feedback that really indicates an item was returned and seller didn't receive it.

The OP writes

"Do not send your parcel off, as you will never see it returned to you from him"

Why would a buyer want their parcel returned ?

I think the OP's assuming that all the parcels are returns from buyers.

The seller , who also has location shown as Carrum Downs. is also a buyer.

3267 feedback as a buyer

IMO, I think there's a good chance that some of these parcels addressed to the seller could be from other sellers, not returns from buyers.

We all know that the seller has bad feedback as a seller.

But personally, I'd have used RTS after the first parcel and made it my business to find out the seller's address (is it similar to the OP's, an error ?) when the second parcel arrived, but that's just me !

Re: Beware Fraudulent Seller

springyzone — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:21:46 GMT

@*casey* wrote:
"I am having trouble working out how this scam works"

Absolutely awful seller but after having another look, I'm not entirely sure that 'all' of these parcels are actually a scam.
There's nothing in the feedback that really indicates an item was returned and seller didn't receive it.

The OP writes

"Do not send your parcel off, as you will never see it returned to you from him"

Why would a buyer want their parcel returned ?

I think the OP's assuming that all the parcels are returns from buyers.

The seller , who also has location shown as Carrum Downs. is also a buyer.

3267 feedback as a buyer

IMO, I think there's a good chance that some of these parcels addressed to the seller could be from other sellers, not returns from buyers.

We all know that the seller has bad feedback as a seller.

But personally, I'd have used RTS after the first parcel and made it my business to find out the seller's address (is it similar to the OP's, an error ?) when the second parcel arrived, but that's just me !

Why would a buyer want their parcel returned ?

That was part of what had me confused. The only reason I could think of was if these were not normal returns as such but more exchanges, maybe for a different size or colour, whatever.

You could be right that some of the parcels could actually be from other sellers, if OP is living in the same suburb.

If OP knows the ebay ID of the seller, and it seems they do (not that i can see any details as it has been moderated), then JU 666396 could send a private message to that person, outline the problem, and ask what is going on.

Return to sender is fine but will only work if the sender's address is on the parcel. You'd think in most cases they would be, but the implication here is that they may not be or else you'd think this would have been done ages back.

My main impression is the OP is sick of receiving these parcels though. If they are actually from other sellers to 'Bad seller', who also lives in Carrum Downs, then you'd think the recipient name on the parcel would always be the same.

If I kept receiving someone else's parcels, I'd assume the person whose name was on the parcel had entered their address wrongly on ebay and that probably theirs was a similar name to my street.

But the thing is with that, if a wrong address is entered then every purchase would go missing for that buyer, not just some. If you were buying on ebay you would surely wake up after a few purchases that something was far wrong.

Anyway, for me it is all very confusing as I can't quite figure out exactly what is going on.