WARNING ABOUT THE NEW SCAM ON EBAY ADS | eBay Coffee

romy1992 · 2013-05-13T07:18:24.014000Z

Hello everyone, I wanted to warn all Ebay users about the new scam on Ebay Classifieds that is becoming very popular. I’ll tell you how some Africans, mainly from Ivory Coast, have organized it. They reply to Ebay Classifieds ads, pretend to be interested in an item, but write to you in a very poor Italian, while claiming to be French; but you quickly realize there are words that just don’t add up, neither in Italian nor in French. They suggest, despite the clear note in the ad that payment is accepted only via PayPal, that they can’t and would rather do a bank transfer. They ask you for the details and all your data: IBAN CODE BIC CODE THE BANK NAME AND ADDRESS THE BENEFICIARY'S FIRST AND LAST NAME CELL PHONE NUMBER HOME ADDRESS (they also offer home delivery by courier at their expense and arranged by them, with no hassle for the seller, and that already “smells” pretty suspicious). Not to mention the fact that he writes to me that when I’m available and when I deem it appropriate, I will decide when the shipment will happen — I was amazed, because I said to myself: "Who gives you all this trust and you’re not even Italian!" In the moment you tell them that you only sell with PayPal, they disappear from circulation, never another email, not even to say they disagree, contradicting all that kindness, even too much, used in the previous emails. I searched the internet and discovered that in this way they are “stealing” a lot of identities, because then I didn’t fully understand what happens next, I read that if you accept, they will then tell you that there is another fee to pay or else the bank transfer won’t be credited, and then from there the identity theft happens. I am reporting what is happening, and if someone who has understood exactly what is going on wants to explain it below, we will be grateful. I read that already thousands of people have been scammed. WARNING!!!

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