Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]this sort of scam is really common. I report at least 10 a week like this to ebay. Surely a stolen identity and often 100s of other scam items listed at the same time, hoping to find some suckers before they are reported and removed, always buy only via an off ebay email. Frank On 20 Mar, 2007, at 14:46, John D. Sluss wrote: > Yesterday,19 March 07 a DMR and a R8 with a DMR were advertised for > 1,000 > GBP (2,000 US) each. The individual ?selling? the items refused to > accept > bids, rather he wanted to be contacted by e-mail. Needless to say > it was a > scam. The ?seller? had a 99.1% positive responses with about 1,000 > sales. I > believe that someone had gotten a hold of this persons eBay sellers > password > and was using his site for the scam. The items were only listed for 24 > hours. An eBay confirmation was sent from a msn address. > I wish it were true because I really want a DMR but alas. > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information