Fake ebay sale help

Ziggymon

Hi I was wondering if anyone could help me sort out if this guy is genuine or not.

I was bidding on a NeoGeo Pocket colour game (Evolution) and I was recieving an e-mail off the seller offering me the item at a reasonable price on a second chance offer.

I said yes and proceeded to let up bidding on the item, and today recieved this e-mail invoice that looks very spoof like asking me to make a money transfer for this item and the seller has sent an e-mail asking if its come through yet and the item will be shipped 12 hours after I have made payment.

I have forwarded the e-mail to ebay spoof e-mail department to look at it, but I was wondering if anyone can tell me if its fake or had anything like this before?

The e-mail lists its from ebay.confirmation@bigstring.com which looks like rubbish.

Thanks in advance guys

Lewisham

Just tell him you're paying over PayPal or not at all.

If you don't trust it, don't pay. It's not worth the risk.

Ziggymon

Yeah sounds like a good plan.

Just sent an e-mail back with it. Thanks

Manic205

Oh, wait, hold on one freakin' second here. I randomly got an email from a "member@ebay.com" saying that I had a second chance to bid on something, or some such. The problem is that I've never bid on anything in my life and haven't used eBay for over a year. Does it mean anything that I got this message? Anything to worry about?

Lewisham

Manic205 wrote: »

Oh, wait, hold on one freakin' second here. I randomly got an email from a "member@ebay.com" saying that I had a second chance to bid on something, or some such. The problem is that I've never bid on anything in my life and haven't used eBay for over a year. Does it mean anything that I got this message? Anything to worry about?

SOunds like a run of the mill phishing attempt.

The only thing you have to worry about is if you replied to it

Crashtard

I've had a few people try to send me "on the side" messages for stuff I'm bidding on, but all they want is your money for free. They have 0 intention of sending you the item. There's a reason it says NEVER send someone a money transfer for an item on ebay.

Lewis was correct Manic. Those emails are the new Nigerian money scam, and I wish those people would die a horrible death.

tsmvengy

Yeah, this is a pretty classic scam. Don't do the money transfer - you'll never see the item. They have to sell it to whoever wins the auction anyway...