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Mcintosh scam

For the nay sayers, shabfashion has been cleansed of the scammers listings. That was fast. Less than one day after I reported, no idea when or who else may have also reported.

EDIT/added For the nay sayers, inswingers has also been cleansed of the scammers listings.
Less than 12 hours since I reported listings in their hijacked store.


Note--I don't expect this to be the end of the scammer. I figure there will be continuous hijackings for a while. I don't know why they stopped a few years ago. Whether ebay managed to finally block the source or if the source just quit.
Hopefully ebay was able to block them on their end. I'm not computer savvy enough to know how all that stuff works.
 
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Doubtful, last time I spoke to customer service they basically told me there’s no way for them to police their listings because there’s so many of them. A rep told me the community does more to make the place safe then they themselves are able to, which may be true to an extent, but it’s still a cop out for sure.

eBay politics aside, I’m glad the scammer got taken down. Now I have this email response, how far you think I can string them along? lol

Or perhaps I should forward it to the feds so they can take action, it’s clearly above the threshold for a federal level criminal charge.
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"this item", no red flag there, ... and then there's the "you will be contacted by eBay", ... yeah I'm sure it'll be eBay.

You would have to be fairly dim to fall for these IMO, but then there are enough of those out there with money, just a numbers game.
 
The "contact us off ebay and we will screw you" pretty colored card states NO BIDDING.
But people still bid.
It's like they don't read the how to be screwed card. And in the end that actually prevents them from falling for the scam. I think.
 
There’s a Jakarta-based guy selling gear in a FB group, and wondering if this is a scam, too. Aside from the almost too-good-to-be-true prices, I’m trying to find the holes with the scam. The seller is willing to accept 50% as a deposit using PayPal with buyer protection. He did not ask form F&F. If I pay via credit card through PayPal, I assume that I would have 2 levels of protection if the seller doesn’t deliver. Am I missing something?
 
Got alerts for two of the saved scammer items this morning.
ADDED---just saw another alert (for a very obscure item the hijacker lists) that ended up in my spam box. Not sure why it ended up in there. Two different listings for that item.
At this time I have alerts for 3 items and all three were activated overnight.
May have hijacked two accounts. In the past the hijacker would hijack one or two accounts each time.
When I checked on the items I got "we've looked everywhere and this page is missing".
Evidently has ebay shut them down already.
 
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I was looking at McIntosh equipment last night and sure enough, the scammer had items "for sale." Don't bid and complete the sale off of eBay. For the prices he was offering I could've been up to my eyeballs in McIntosh gear. Too good to be true is the motto, a very wise one.

If you're buying stuff on eBay, never, ever do a transaction off site. Especially with items that are expensive. You will have no protection if you do. There's about 100% chance of the seller is a scammer. Bye bye a few thousand bucks.

BTW, all the scammers auctions were gone the next day.
 
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I was looking at McIntosh equipment last night and sure enough, the scammer had items "for sale." Don't bid and complete the sale off of eBay. For the prices he was offering I could've been up to my eyeballs in McIntosh gear. Too good to be true is the motto, a very wise one.

If you're buying stuff on eBay, never, ever do a transaction off site. Especially with items that are expensive. You will have no protection if you do. There's about 100% chance of the seller is a scammer. Bye bye a few thousand bucks.

BTW, all the scammers auctions were gone the next day.
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It would be nice if people would post here when they see a hijacked seller, or at least a link to the item...item might be better than naming the seller as those of us who can't edit beyond 24 hours would have a reputable sellers name forever on AK just because they were hijacked for a day or two. Wouldn't want to harm an otherwise reputable seller.
I know I'd report them and I suspect others would as well.
Can't report what I can't see.

I'm assuming if it was the multi color hijacker they've already been shut down as I got no alerts last night.

And if it's a new hijacker we could keep an eye out for them.
Again, can't do anything with something I can't see.
 
SCAMMER IS BACK...Here's his current lineup, please report some items...this IS a hijacked account, bear no ill will towards the seller who has been hijacked. Notice the hijacked account has 10,833 current items for sale, the vast majority are the scammer.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/daviddexte...64&ul_noapp=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

Click report item
listing practices from 1st drop down box
fraudulent listing practices from 2nd drop down box
you suspect that a listing is fraudulent from 3rd drop down box

submit report

At this time it appears he only hijacked one account, often times he hijacks two.
Hopefully within a day the real seller will have the hijackers listings removed from his ebay account.

Sorry it is so small, same image as posted previously. Always present in a hijacked offering, directs viewers to complete transaction off site.


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EDIT/ADDED--- now less than 8500 items listed, possible ebay is already cleaning up the account. EDIT #2 6238 now. Evidently ebay is working on it and they have to delete each item individually?
But if you have time maybe flag a couple items just in case...
EDIT 3 in less than 4 hours since my first post ebay has removed all 10,000+ listings
Good for them for being on top of things and looking into reported items.
 
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Hijacker is active again, here's some items that may be of interest to AK'ers. Do not bid, do not buy, but feel free to report them to ebay.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/Vintage-Amplifiers-Tube-Amps/73368/m.html?item=193924774825&hash=item2d26d13ba9:g:iS0AAOSwnBRgO2Tg&_ssn=steves9837

Click "report Item" button
then in the drop down boxes click
listing practices
then
fraudulent listing activities
then
you suspect a listing is fraudulent

You have to complete all three drop down boxes then click submit.
It's easier than it looks.

If you would like to help you might consider setting up alerts for a couple of items, the hijacker seems to always use the same items and images. No idea why there is just over 1000 listings at this time, the hijacker usually inserts 10,000+ items into a hijacked account.
Could be he just started loading files OR ebay is already deleting them.

EDIT/ADDED ebay is deleting items, nice to see them on the ball and taking this seriously.
Just a guess, I noticed that rather than the $2.40 or $2.70 opening DON'T BID (LOL) todays listings had $500 DON'T BID (LOL) starting bids which may account for the far fewer listings than normally inserted into hijacked accounts.
 
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My email inbox was blown up this morning with items from the multi-color hijacked accounts scammer.
Same images as before.
Ebay has already deleted those listings so it appears they are on top of it.
One change from before, previously the scammer had items starting at very low prices like $2.99 BUT DON'T BID, contact us offline only.
Todays items each had $2000 opening bids.
 
These scams are not going away any time soon, and eBay clearly are still not being proactive with their listing policy.

Beware seller “1399190”, tons of fraudulent activity.
 
You'd think that eBay would have trigger words/phrases that would instantly cause the listing to be deleted or prevent the listing to start with.
 
I agree, seems like they could have something that triggers hijacked account and/or fraudulent buy outside of ebay keyword.
Something simple like DON'T BID
 
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