[Premium-Rx] email from the netherlands offering a high-end receiver

[GandalfG8 at aol.com]

> BTW, the seller you name has a good FB profile and apparently sells a bunch 
> of stuff, mostly CDs:

I had a similae email from this guy, relating to a bid I put on a cellular 
base station with a built in rubidium standard, not the sort of thing most folks 
just happen to have lying around:-)
My email came direct, not via ebay and not sure how he extracted my email 
address, so though he was claiming that ID he could have used any that he found.

I've had other similar emails in the past that did come via ebay but it 
turned out a genuine ID had been "kidnapped", often, as you say, with a good ebay 
rating but for unrelated items.

Another scam a while ago was for a bogus seller to set up a new account and 
offer something that was already attracting attention in another auction but at 
a much lower price.
I queried one auction for a spectrum analyser where the picture didn't match 
the description, eventuallty it turned out both had been lifted from ebay but 
separate auctions.
The "seller" then claimed to have both and could do either much cheaper than 
listed elsewhere.
Payment, as always, had to be via Western Union.
However, this guy claimed to be in London so I said I'd buy one if I could 
collect, just to see his reaction.
All of a sudden he'd had to go to Spain.....so I told him I had friends there 
so couold still arrange collection.
Would you believe it?, by now he's moved on to Cyprus.
I don't know how far we could have played worldwide cat and mouse but got 
bored and told him to get lost:-)

One other to watch out for, saw an instance just this wekend, is an auction 
for very expensive items but with a ridiculously low start, $0.01 in this case.
The auction states it's for pre approved bidders only and invites an email.
Usual trick then is to suggest an off ebay deal, still at a "bargain" price, 
but, again, with the seller being somewhere like Spain, Italy, or Eastern 
Europe and still requiring a Western Union money order.

The answer, as always, is not to trust any of these offers that seem to be 
too good to be true.

regards

Nigel
G9PZR
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