eBay Scammers - Warning

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   Hi,

During the course of my usual eBay hawkeye, I've noticed a number of different accounts listing pro audio gear over the last few weeks where every auction description has the following in it (please don't reference the email address in a text post; the people running this are likely running searches for the email in question to see if it's been mentioned anywhere)

The posts have all the usual hallmarks of a scam - very attractive prices, many different high end items for sale, eBay account with good feedback but hasn't listed items for sale recently.

An interesting technical note for those interested, the listings all have html viewports to dropbox hosted HTML, which renders the email address not as text recognisable by a machine (as far as I can tell, seems to be javascript based rendering) Handy so the scammers can change the contents of all of the listings if their email address gets comprised or reported 

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spongebob Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Young Croc Joined: 20 October 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1395	Post Options Post Reply Quote spongebob Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: eBay Scammers - Warning Posted: 12 January 2020 at 3:40pm
	Hi, During the course of my usual eBay hawkeye, I've noticed a number of different accounts listing pro audio gear over the last few weeks where every auction description has the following in it (please don't reference the email address in a text post; the people running this are likely running searches for the email in question to see if it's been mentioned anywhere) The posts have all the usual hallmarks of a scam - very attractive prices, many different high end items for sale, eBay account with good feedback but hasn't listed items for sale recently. An interesting technical note for those interested, the listings all have html viewports to dropbox hosted HTML, which renders the email address not as text recognisable by a machine (as far as I can tell, seems to be javascript based rendering) Handy so the scammers can change the contents of all of the listings if their email address gets comprised or reported

monkeypuzzle Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Young Croc Joined: 25 January 2005 Status: Offline Points: 924	Post Options Post Reply Quote monkeypuzzle Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 January 2020 at 7:51pm
	Really appreciated. not seen but thanks for this. Things like this make up for the pages and pages of back and forth subjective/scientific/opinion/huffing that seems to fill up every now and then. It makes me pleased to be a member albeit only on the fringes of this community.
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Earplug Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Old Croc Joined: 03 January 2012 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 7216	Post Options Post Reply Quote Earplug Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 January 2020 at 10:26am
	+1 As someone who also trawls through the bay quite regularly looking for bargains () any heads-up about a scam is appreciated.
	Earplugs Are For Wimps!

spongebob Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Young Croc Joined: 20 October 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1395	Post Options Post Reply Quote spongebob Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 February 2020 at 9:09pm
	They're at it again. New image below

tomrotten Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Registered User Joined: 10 June 2019 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 33	Post Options Post Reply Quote tomrotten Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 February 2020 at 7:18am
	I noticed the other day and thought nothing of it.. but a Powersoft K20 for 1.6k was too good to be true! Thanks for the heads up :)