One tenth of UK consumers...
become victim of Internet fraud. According to recent news reports anyway. Well, in four years I've bought a pair of Nikes from Singapore - which unsurprisingly disappeared en route - a bit like the seller once he had my money. This morning, my old P900 was hijacked on Ebay by three fake bidders - pushing the price up to a grand at one point. First I knew was when Ebay emailed me about 20 minutes before the end of the auction a "Notice: Administrative Bid Cancellation". Now if that message told me I could block bids, I might have stood a chance of averting disaster. Unsurprisingly, Ebay still bill you the Final Value Fee - and you have to put in a claim which takes at least seven days etc etc. So with the clock ticking down in 24 stylee as quickly as I could block their fakey bids - new id's appeared (with zero rating) putting in more scam bids. It was quite thrilling at the time, and seems to be all the rage according to some of the Ebay forums. Something about this should be done. [shakes fist angrily]
posted by dietbruboy at 4/12/2007 10:04:00 am
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That sounds really poor. Looking at the forum posts it looks like the new 'in thing' for scammers. My paypal account is one of the few things that had both my current and credit card details linked to it....which does make me wonder about eBay and Paypals security.
Looking at the eBay forums...it would put you off the service for life! I won't use eBay with my main accounts - I'm going to setup eBay only current and credit card accounts to limit risk. A bit OTT but probably worth it.
I've got one card on Paypal, nothing else. To be fair to Ebay, they kicked the guy off within ten minutes of the auction finishing. I emailed them to get my FVF credit and it was sorted this morning - less that 24 hours from the end of the auction. The relisting and waiting another week is really the annoying thing. F*cking kids with nothing better to do.
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