Malasians, Bad Boys and eBay!

Posted by Don Don Breier - eWristwatch on June 21, 2003 - 05:31PM cet - IP :
Email : don@ewristwatch.net

Over the years, I've watched the evolution of these crooks. They are improving their techniques to steal our money!

They now use better phony names, state that they are American just working there, pay your asking price, don't worry about shipping costs...they're good & clever. I've received stolen American checks from major firms, overnight from L.A. to L.A. Deliveries and shipping addresses to addresses other than
Malaysia. It's not just Malaysia either...some have POB addresses along the American borders which are changed rapidly.

Credit card companies can't do anything about it, the investigative and enforcement agencies seem powerless, bank cards are not warning business men. Most credit card firms will put a cash advance into a customer's checking account and then the customer can simply send a bank wire...some will even send the bank wire directly for the customer.

Regarding eBay...for the first time, I recently put a few watches at auction and received many dozens of inquiries. Over 97% were willing to pay even more than the bids or minimum bid and desired to use a credit card or phony cashier's check. Some even offered to have someone pick up the watch here and they would send the Cashier's check to the friend. One group actually rented a furnished office, negotiated with several for purchasing and then met on the weekend with sellers to buy everything with phony Cashier's checks. Another group started a phony escrow firm for their purchases to be processed through.

Regarding eBay...I put within each ad twice...that only bank wires would be accepted outside of the USA...this didn't stop them! I also sent form e-mails for them to get the cash from their credit card and just send a bank wire.

eBay has a policy that high-bidders above $15,000 must be verified before they could bid. When I wrote about strange high-bids to eBay. I was told via e-mail from eBay that these bidders were approved...several days later, eBay removed the bidders with strange notifications that the bidders were not verified... this really screwed up the auctions! I could write
a book with the e-mails that I sent to eBay with no telephone contact, a minimum of e-mail contact and days to take any minimum action. Most of us know the eBay story...no telephone contact, no rapid e-mail contact and then the mystery continues until for days & days!

BE SAFE...DON'T SEND ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF THE USA WITHOUT A BANK WIRE UNLESS YOU KNOW OR HAVE VERIFIED THE SELLER.

Don't expect anyone to protect you...YOU MUST DO IT FOR YOURSELF.

Please post any suggestions further info or e-mail me.

Thanks, Don