Queasy
Moderator<br>Console Gaming
My wife has been wanting a sewing/embroidery machine and started looking around for deals and starts browsing around on eBay the last couple of days for one. She starts noticing that there are a lot of auctions where the auction says to contact the seller at a different e-mail address than the one associated with the listing ID.
eBay starts pulling these left and right.
Wife finds one she thinks is legit (doesn't have a different email addy) and contacts the person. They live near us and even gave my wife their zip code. Wife loses that auction but receives a 2nd Chance Offer but it isn't from the same email address of the person she was talking to earlier. This new email address wants our phone number, address, etc but won't give out any information. Obvious scam.
Just weird. Embroidery/Sewing machines can be expensive ($2000+) but who knew the scammers would be all over it like this. Just about every auction my wife has come across has been some kind of scam.
Guess they are just trying to prey on clueless women. Fortunately, my wife isn't one of them.
eBay starts pulling these left and right.
Wife finds one she thinks is legit (doesn't have a different email addy) and contacts the person. They live near us and even gave my wife their zip code. Wife loses that auction but receives a 2nd Chance Offer but it isn't from the same email address of the person she was talking to earlier. This new email address wants our phone number, address, etc but won't give out any information. Obvious scam.
Just weird. Embroidery/Sewing machines can be expensive ($2000+) but who knew the scammers would be all over it like this. Just about every auction my wife has come across has been some kind of scam.
Guess they are just trying to prey on clueless women. Fortunately, my wife isn't one of them.
