Spotting Ebay Scams

Wally Young said:

Nobody buying something expensive would fall for that.

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Consider this - people who have bought nothing, but in fact have been told that they won something, have fallen for worse and lost more.

Pocket-full-of-gold said:

It is........well, at least it is here in Oz. I can only assume it is elsewhere.

Safest way to pay outside of physically handing someone a bank note IMHO.

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jginalbany said:

According to the paypal, you're not protected if you simply send money (i.e., not responding to an invoice).

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Well today I got a message that my ride has been sent. That's a relief. Pocket-full-of-gold, are you in Kansas? I live about 25 miles south of ICT

Macarina said:

Interesting investigation going on there. Tell me more. Reverse image search? Unique phrasing? I'm an old dog, but you can teach me new things.

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With google, you can search for an image, based on the image's URL.

Unique phrasing would relate to peculiar phrases used in an ad.

So if I saw an ad with "Zilgen Newt Bait height hats" f'rinstance, I'd copy that text as the basis for a search, because you wouldn't expect to see that phrase showing up too often. And a potential scammer would not necessarily know when he is looking at odd phrasing.

lefty2 said:

Pocket-full-of-gold, are you in Kansas?

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Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore.

In fact, Oz is about as far away from Kansas as one could get. Even Dorothy couldn't get home without the help of red shoes.......or a Qantas jet.

Pocket-full-of-gold said:

Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore.

In fact, Oz is about as far away from Kansas as one could get. Even Dorothy couldn't get home without the help of red shoes.......or a Qantas jet.

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Wolf Creek..........!