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My friend Cory wanted me to sell it for him just days after he bought it. Probably because he realized that, aside from looking cool, he had no real use for it. For the sake of an easy sale, I just pretended to sell it as my own, with a starting price of $1700, and the "Buy It Now" option for $2100. When I tried to return it, I was informed of a 10 day limit for returns! Your new laptop comes with its original box, all of its documentation, all of its original accessories, and the blue tooth mouse. Days go by with no sign of interest, until I receive this email from an interested eBay member: Hello I am very interested in your unit. I would like to know your best price to buy it now and if you ship international. Thank you in advance OK, I went over all of this in the auction. Well, I will ship it to you in London, but I will not do it for free. Please give me you address and I will go get a price for the shipping to London. Ive only had it for 21 days now, only being used at my office. The buy it now price is $2,100 (US currency) + the shipping to London. net and my uzername is the same with my email addressI will pay the express shipping and also , the escrow fee . The escrow service will release you the money as soon as I will let them know that the item passed the inspection and is 100% ok. Hope that everything will be ok and close the deal in the best conditions.
For instance, Grom wrote: Hmmm that escrow service doesn't look very legit - check the verisign secureid link, it's just a javascript pop-up which pretends to be going to verisign's site. It looks hopelessly unprofessional and doesn't seem right anyway - ask him if he will use a different escrow service. I draft an email to send to the scammer, when we get a better idea.
I have just finished creating my account on the escrow site that you suggested. I read that escrow services who do not utilize a strong digital defense can often be attacked, and the buyer and or seller can lose money or their item. By doing it this way, will I get to skip the extra ebay fees?
Sent: Sunday, April 25 To: MyNameIsJeff Subject: Re: What is the next step? HELLO First of all I want ot tell you that you will not pay anything because I pay the escrow, UPS and other fees. net, acces your account with the uzername that you have and if the transaction isOk with you please accept it. Once you do that I will send the funds =2100$ plus shipping $180. Please send the unit express UPS or FedexI will send them money and they will let you know as soon as they get the amount. Do not worry I know a lot of people that used this service and it is OK. Please let me thank you again for being so patient with me! I logged onto your preferred escrow site and saw our transaction. I am very eager to get this thing shipped so I can hurry up and start the process to get my money! Once I ok our transaction does it tell me where to ship the laptop? I am very positive you will be satisfied with the laptop. One other thing, You seemed to confident about this escrow service, that I think I am going to use it myself for my other transactions. I will be buying and selling other laptops and would like the security. I will be buying many things and will need a escrow service with a strong digital defense to send my money to so I don't get ripped off. Jeff While waiting for his response, I decide to report the incident to eBay. I go through all the hoops, letting them know what happened, and asking them to take some action. This is what I get: Hello, Thank you for writing to eBay's Customer Support with your concerns. My name is John and I appreciate the chance to answer your question. An Escrow service allows the buyer to send their money to the Escrow Company, and the Seller then ships the item to the Buyer. Once the Buyer approves the item the Escrow service then pays the Seller. eBay encourages members to take advantage of the assurance that escrow services can provide. Regards, John W S eBay Customer Support WELL THANK YOU JOHN! Someone is reporting an obvious scam and fake escrow site. Perhaps my follow-up e-mail was a little too angry: Hi John, Not to be rude, but I know quite well what escrow is. I also happen to know that this is an obvious scam attempt. Had you actually read the form I filled out on your site, and not replied with the canned response: Escrow 101, you would notice that I did not ask what escrow was. I was reporting someone wants to settle the sale outside of ebay, through an escrow site he referred me to. A site that claims to be a VeriSign secure site, but then you click the logo, he is hosting the VeriSign page -the page that should take you to the verisign site. This can't be your answer to everyone who reports these types of things can it? I really think you should take some action against this person. Jeff It isnt long before I have our next email from the scammer.
The next step of the transaction is to ship the merchandise to the buyer. Please send the shipping details to your partner "scont06". As soon as your partner receives the merchandise and the inspection period ends we will contact you to complete payment.
Here the duty taxes are 27,5% from the total amount wrote on the package so please do your best and send it as a family gift and with a low value. This is my address: GIANLUCA SESSAREGO 9B VARLEY PARADE COLINDALE,LONDON,UK zip code:NW9 6RR Please email me when you will send the package and give me the tracking number. The next course of action is WICKED obvious, he even said it himself: "Here the duty taxes are 27,5% from the total amount wrote on the package." Put like $8000 on the package and make the fucker pay $2200 for it. Obviously, $8000 was high, but marking it $2200 and having him pay the 27% was genius! I wanted to send the scammer something that was worth the effort. EricFate got my imagination going: Send a three ring binder with a hand drawn keyboard taped to the inside of the bottom flap, and a hand drawn screen taped to the inside of the top flap. Trick the scammer into paying a few hundred dollars for a fake laptop!
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