Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/14

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Ebay-fraud?
From: "Eric" <ericm@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:55:38 -0500
References: <94634F2A-FD58-11D7-B72D-000A9578C446@ncable.net.au><001b01c391c2$f2036ea0 $87d86c18@gv.shawcable.net><009801c391ec$ee3584a0$22256a44@ph.cox.net> <20031014041005.29465.qmail@balhpl01.ncable.net.au> <p05111009bbb1a921e0ff@[192.168.0.8]>

Karen:

>Both are rather silly. The first claims 
>that there will be ebay Fraud protection for a private transaction, 
>the second claims profits are going to a charity home for homeless 
>kids, yeah right.

It's a shame that most people don't have the common sense that you show.  If
they did, these scammers wouldn't have any successes.  Unfortunately, it
just takes one or two out of a hundred potential victims to make it
worthwhile.

Something else to be careful of on ebay is using escrow accounts.  Never use
one that the seller suggests, unless you were going to use that, anyway.
Several scams have been helped along by using an "escrow" service that isn't
actually legitimate.

My philosophy on ebay is that I never spend any more than I'm willing to
lose, which is about $50.  If I'm going to spend more than that, I'd rather
conduct business with somebody I "know" from the LUG.


Eric
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