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Sellers BEWARE OF SCAM offer

5kazam — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:07:24 GMT

Received an email this morning from <Removed> telling me they found my store and wanting to do an e-commerce promotion, write professional product listing, etc. etc., find the link to the attached pic. It also had a legitimate looking eBay 'REPLY' button.

Obviously I did NOT open the link. Just as obviously there was nothing on my listing about having any offer.

Must say I'm getting pretty sick and tired of all these scammers who want to try and get my bank information - JB HiFi, ATO, Aust Post - to name 3 recent ones.

So I just thought I'd give you a heads up if you receive one of these emails.

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kopenhagen5 — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 22:40:06 GMT

Based in Ukraine.

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5kazam — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 22:43:15 GMT

And I suppose they joined eBay in the last 24 hours!!

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kopenhagen5 — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 22:59:30 GMT

Spot on, joined today.

Some years ago my PayPal was hacked by Russians and have heard many stories of hackers from those regions.

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5kazam — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 23:03:37 GMT

Well, I'm glad I posted the warning. I'd hate to see sellers get scammed.

(BTW I've still got my eyes peeled for that Nykel!)

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kopenhagen5 — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 23:11:24 GMT

Wish I had kept some of those cups with tea warmers. (Vagn Nykel)

Thought you might like to see this - http://www.australianpotteryatbemboka.com.au/shop/index.php?manufacturers_id=319

Re: Sellers BEWARE OF SCAM offer

5kazam — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 23:15:02 GMT

I've seen it before. Don't forget I'm an Australian pottery collector. And the Bemboka site is bookmarked. One of my 'go to' pages when I need some info.

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kopenhagen5 — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 23:55:03 GMT

I thought so.

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love_of_cars — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:27:39 GMT

I love those lengthy emails from someone saying they hacked into my PC, used my webcam to record me playing with myself while watching interesting videos and has got into my email inbox to email the video to all my contacts unless I send them funds.

Or those emails from a female confirming which suburb you're in (and they are right due to Domino's being hacked).

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5kazam — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 02:23:15 GMT

I've reported the scam to eBay, and sent a copy of the email content through to spoof. It was also in my eBay messages, so the CS rep who rang me was able to see immediately that it was a scam/hacking message. He also said that the Ukraine is the latest place for scammers to set up new accounts. Though bad news for the scammers, eBay apparently have a lead on them.

The other thing he did say was that it was a good idea to put the user id on here as an upfront warning to others, as clearly I'm not going to be the only one receiving the email.

So luna-2304, I'm going to post the id again, and would appreciate it if you didn't remove it this time. I know it's against policy, but in this circumstance I, and eBay, believe it is warranted.

The id is jyc_3265

The message received is :

sup∙How∙are∙u∙doing

∙∙∙I∙just∙found∙your∙store∙page∙5kazam.
good∙quality.I'm∙going∙to∙submit∙your∙item∙ORREFORS∙-∙SIMON∙GATE∙-∙ART∙GLASS∙BOWL∙ON∙BLACK∙BASE
and∙do∙ecommerce∙promotion,∙write∙professional∙product∙listing,∙edit∙product∙pictures∙for∙your∙seller's∙page.∙Find∙the∙link∙attached∙pic∙here.

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the4masters2013 — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 03:06:19 GMT

Thank you for the information.
I haven't received the email but if it turns up, I know what it is all about.

Thanks again

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*tippy*toes* — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 05:16:42 GMT

@love_of_cars wrote:
I love those lengthy emails from someone saying they hacked into my PC, used my webcam to record me playing with myself while watching interesting videos and has got into my email inbox to email the video to all my contacts unless I send them funds.

Yeah, I've had heaps of them. They are demaning bitcoins or some such fake currency. The funny thing is, I have had my webcam turned off from day 1, in my settings, and I have a sticker over the lens, just in case someone does get in (unlikely, but entirely possible if someone was desperate enough).

Mr Tippy got a bit upset when he received a similar email. I asked him if he'd been playing with himself while watching interesting videos again. He said yes, he had, again. I scolded him, again. He promised never to do it again, again. Then I reminded him that he also has a sticker over his webcam (the VIN number of his car to be exact!). He was relieved. We don't have to sell our house to protect the 2 contacts we both have in our email list.

Who gives a stuff about email these days? It's so last century!

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Anonymous — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 05:25:59 GMT

I would'nt, obviously but my God it is so tempted to respond to these fools

You WISH you had a recording of me

If you need, you would know all my contacts were there with me

All playing with ourselves

A round robin (ahem) session

YOU,sir need to go play with yourself more often

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kopenhagen5 — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 05:35:29 GMT

Love this guy, James Veitch -

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QdPW8JrYzQ

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Uc-cztsJo

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gem-boy-g — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:11:38 GMT

priceless, really good laugh

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twyngwyn — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 04:40:14 GMT

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/letters/blog.pl?/pl/2019/8/1565665518.html

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*tippy*toes* — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 04:45:26 GMT

If I got a "professional" looking email that started with "sup", it would be going straight to the cyber ether. Ctrl-del.....completely bypasses the deleted folder and immediately permanently deletes it. I use that with all spam. Saves having it clogging up the deleted folder, only to have to manually remove it.