Suspicious scammer using AI generated or photoshopped photo in a return case

[lemonxlemon]

Hi all,

I have a suspicious scammer here that I never came across with.

This buyer created a return case with only one photo uploaded.

The photo shows a crack inside of the mug.

First of all, this is a brand new Hermes porcelain mug, which I have sold numerous of them and never had one cracked or broken. They were always packed well protected.

Secondly, if a brand new Hermes porcelain mug cracks, the crack mark should be a very clean white mark, same with any high quality porcelain mugs. It shouldn't be black like the photo this buyer uploaded.

Therefore, I strongly believe there is something fishy with this buyer. This buyer only just registered the account in July 2025. So I asked her to show me more photos of the parcel box that she received and also more photo of this mug in multiple angles. She replied with only the photos of the parcel box which is undamaged. I asked her again to show me more photos of the mug and she stopped replying.

This photo with the crack, I strongly believe it is AI generated or photoshopped!

Has anyone else came across with this or similar case?

[countessalmirena]

@lemonxlemon, I’m presuming you mean “now closed” rather than “not closed”. 🙂

How fitting that the scam did not succeed and the case is closed. As everyone on this thread has seen, this was a blatant scam with the poorest photoshopping I’ve seen in something of this sort. It deserved to be shut down like a toilet seat in the home of a single lady.

I should mention that you should not have posted the buyer’s username, though. The forum guidelines are clear about this. Can you self-report your post and ask for the username to be removed, and explain that you didn’t realise at the time of posting that it wasn’t permitted…?

[domino-710]

LOL - have to question - ' deserved to be shut down in the home of a single lady ' .

Doing a Pauline here - please explain.??

[countessalmirena]

Single lady - no man in the house - toilet seat goes down, unlike in a house with at least one bloke leaving the toilet seat up as a result of their internal plumbing, so to speak…

[merfar2107]

It was good to be able to BBL though 🙂

[merfar2107]

Is there a way to find buyers now?

[twyngwyn]

Google……things are now more difficult…..f/b left for others, comes and goes too

[merfar2107]

Tried all of that, twyn, but thank you for trying to help.

[*casey*]

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@merfar2107 wrote:

Is there a way to find buyers now?

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You can find any member using this link

https://pages.ebay.com/services/forum/feedback-login.html

[domino-710]

Not sure that's what he/she meant Casey. LOL

[*casey*]

Merfar mentioned putting the scammer  buyer on his / her BBL then asked if there was a way to find  buyers.

Twyn  suggested Google.

Using the link I gave , you can  find  any  user and see their feedback given and left for others.

I thought that was what merfar was asking