Possible E-Bay fraud on Alps printers

[Owen]

Hi all,
Just thought I'd let you know about an E-bay purchase we were about to complete.
We successfully bid on an Alps MD5000 printer from a guy called "phurple" His email is
andremeirpin88@yahoo.com

Luckily we had not processed the payment as we were trying to organize freight to Australia.
In the mean time two things happened.
The first was a warning from my anti spam mail server program that the message from the seller was not from e-bay (phishing scam warning / forged headers).

The second was a message from e-bay saying the same thing and that the transaction had been canceled.

I can't say with 100% certainty that the guy is a crook, but all the warnings are there.
I would suggest extreme caution when dealing with this person.
If it walks like a duck....

[wags on the water]

Thanks for the heads up Owen. These people really get on my nerve.

[reddybayfisher]

If if wasn't for your post - I probably would have bought of him (if there was something to buy)....he has 100% positive feedback with 149 items sold or bought...looking at his profile all seems legit....

[Owen]

I checked all those things before bidding and yes, he has 100% positive feedback. Of course that can be bogus as well.
Just goes to show how careful you have to be.
I'll be waiting a day or two before I pay for any future purchases.

[Outsider1]

He may have had his E-Bay "identity" stolen?.

It is not unusual to have genuine ads hijacked these days. Have seen it a number of times for cars, boats etc. The item for sale is genuine (valid rego, VIN etc) but the seller has hijacked someone's online ad and is trying to defraud would be purchasers by extracting a deposit or "transport costs" or similar. A bit like the Nigeria scammers.

Thru a Keyboard logger or a similar Trojan they can steal a user ID and password quite easily if their security software is not up scratch.

Cheers

Dave

[reddybayfisher]

He may have had his E-Bay "identity" stolen?.

It is not unusual to have genuine ads hijacked these days. Have seen it a number of times for cars, boats etc. The item for sale is genuine (valid rego, VIN etc) but the seller has hijacked someone's online ad and is trying to defraud would be purchasers by extracting a deposit or "transport costs" or similar. A bit like the Nigeria scammers.

Thru a Keyboard logger or a similar Trojan they can steal a user ID and password quite easily if their security software is not up scratch.

Cheers

Dave

Amazing isn't it....if only they could put there computer powers to a good use....