I have just found 5 separate items for sale that appear to be fraudulent, the listed prices too low.

[madgeekz]

Hello all.

I have just found 5 different listings from different sellers for 4K UHD TV's that are in the "Too good to be true" basket. Other than the listed prices being way too low for Brand New items, the sellers have historical accounts that appear to have been dormant for several years until earlier this year when the became active again and immediately the user name was changed.

The items listed claim to be physically in Australia but the body of the listings are in German and one in Italian while rest of post is in English. Also these items are on 30 day listings and they are staggered out 1 hour apart from each other.

I would love to buy a brand new 55 inch LG 4K TV for $87 or the 75 inch LG for $130, who wouldn't? They are even listed with Free Shipping.

It appears that a couple have already sold and I am very tempted myself. Would I be covered by ebay and paypal should these items do turn out to be fraudulent listings?

My opinion is that 1 person has purchased 5 aged eBay accounts on Dark Web, has logged in and made each account active again. Made a few small sales to show consistant positive feedback then logs into accounts 1 at a time to make new listings for unobtainable items.

It is obvious that things were not planned too well due to the listings being in German and not English, probably hasn't heard of Google Translate.

Here are the Item ID's:

253742231592
123241938688
323341401485
163142669360
123241938058

Can someone here assist and view these listings to either verify my suspicions and get these users or user kicked out before any more buyers get scammed or dismiss me as paranoid and I go and buy one myself.

Thank you all.

Madgeekz

[kopenhagen5]

Too good to be true.

They appear to be low feedback hijacked accounts.

Each listing has a report link. The more members that report it the more chance of them being pulled down.

Well spotted.

[go-tazz]

Only 2 left showing as sold and the others have been removed.

The 2 sold ones will generally stay up until the buyers have been notified and for their Trust & Safety team to

have a look at,(the buyers will be told that there was a problem with the listings and that they had to take them

down).

[madgeekz]

Of the 2 you mentioned I actually have 1 of them sitting in my cart. As of 9 am this morning the listings were still up and on the off chance that they were real I held one there all day. If when I got home after 5 pm the listings were active I was going to pay for it only the off chance that it would arrive, but in reality I doubt that I could have let myself pay. But when I got home and refreshed each of the 5 pages to see "Page can not be found" I cheered at wooped saying out loud. Suck it loser, Epic Fail for you. But that cheer was also for myself for spotting the obvious fake and coming here to Holler for HELP.

I was in middle of reporting the first item when I thought that being after midnight an Admin would probably not read my requests for at least 12 hours and I would have to do 5 reports all the same but could only report 1 at a time.  So with the goal of getting some action I came here and I hollered and it got not only heard but that I was correct in my suspicions and probably saved more than a dozen people the heartache of getting SCAMMED but I also saved eBay from refunding those dozen customers. If that is what eBay would do.

Being an IT specialist who is able to see holes where others cannot is part of my DNA and seeing things that seem out of place is so ingrained in me that I saw those out of place things actually is like a male dog's testes, once you see them they stand out so much that it borders on offensive. Offensive that someone thought that those listings would be good enough for them to get away with FRAUD in place as strict as eBay gladly is. I am now releaved that I was correct and I am going to throw that TV into a refreshing browser and watch it disappear as though it never existed.

Madgeekz.

[countessalmirena]

There is more involved and at risk than you may have realised, madgeekz. Had you purchased one of these, not only would you have never received the item (and had to wait for a refund), but your details would have been obtained for further use. Your PayPal account, email address, name, address, just for starters.

You would have been the target of "profiled" scam emails (based on information gleaned from your username on eBay).

Your identity could have been stolen.

In short, congratulations on dodging a bullet.

[madgeekz]

Thank you for your concern there but I am smarter then that. In fact that was my own little test to see if it was valid or not and what would ebay's response do to those "semi-live" pages. Semi-live by means of my web browser cache. I did what I did in posting here was to stop someone else with less of a keen eye from losing their identity.

I don't want this taken out of context here but I have noticed that a majority of the latest scam type of attack, the spelling and grammar in usually the first telling sign for me. It is easy to tell if it has been run through google translate or similarly a article respinner. Mostly it maynake sense but somethings just wouldn't be spoken that way if in English. Especially if they are claiming a local address. Foreign hacking groups from middle eastern nations and India is what I have noticed.

[go-tazz]

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@madgeekz wrote:

I don't want this taken out of context here but I have noticed that a majority of the latest scam type of attack, the spelling and grammar in usually the first telling sign for me. It is easy to tell if it has been run through google translate or similarly a article respinner. Mostly it maynake sense but somethings just wouldn't be spoken that way if in English. Especially if they are claiming a local address. Foreign hacking groups from middle eastern nations and India is what I have noticed.

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They are all part of the scams these days,(it used to be the Russian,Romanian and Nigerian as the main

culprits but these days the scammers do seem to possibly be from India,China and the middle eastern

countries).

If you watch the news at times when someone from those countries speak in English it seems to be along the

same lines as their listings descritption,(so you can compare there spoken word to their written word).

[gutterpunkz05]

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@madgeekz wrote:

Thank you for your concern there but I am smarter then that. In fact that was my own little test to see if it was valid or not and what would ebay's response do to those "semi-live" pages. Semi-live by means of my web browser cache. I did what I did in posting here was to stop someone else with less of a keen eye from losing their identity.

I don't want this taken out of context here but I have noticed that a majority of the latest scam type of attack, the spelling and grammar in usually the first telling sign for me. It is easy to tell if it has been run through google translate or similarly a article respinner. Mostly it maynake sense but somethings just wouldn't be spoken that way if in English. Especially if they are claiming a local address. Foreign hacking groups from middle eastern nations and India is what I have noticed.

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