Someone is posting a items for sale that do not belong to them. I have my vehicle listed on Auto Trader. I received a call from someone in Arizona who found my truck listed on ebay however when I went to search I could not locate it. This person provided the phone number and email address for my review. I did find my truck listed on craigslist in San Diego. I pretended to be interested in purchasing the vehicle. The phone number they provided to text was (513) 716-5097, email address of [email protected]. It was the same information the person in arizona provided to me. i emailed that i wanted to purchase the truck. They emailed me advising they wanted to go thru ebay to complete the transaction and told me eBay would reach out to me. Next day I received a fake eBay email saying that I have to make a money gram payment to an eBay account specialist. When sending the email, the person accidentally sent me a listing for another vehicle they were selling, then i received a fake notice from ebay telling me they sent the incorrect vehicle information to me. The email address, phone number and address was the same as the ebay notice for my truck, however it was a different name. i notified craigslist and ebay, the item was removed from the San Diego craigslist however they recently listed the truck on the Hartford,CT craigslist site on 7/29/13.
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It's quite a common problem and, to make matters worse, in the UK the criminals are finding it easy to open up scam bank accounts against fake ID's which makes it appear safer for victims to pay money for fraudulent items.
It's not your fault if the photos of items you post for sale end up being used for fraud, but people should consider watermarking photos to make them unusable. The problem is that there isn't any shortage of photos for scammers to use.
From what you say it certainly appears that scammers find US banks more of a challenge than UK banks and, having worked in UK banking before I retired, I know this wasn't how things used to be. A long as scammers are forced to have to rely on cash services it's much less likely that their scams will be successful.
