Is this happen to you on Ebay paying MoneyGram ? FRAUD!!

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Hey Patrick.
I have just recently dealt with Steve as well and never a problem or concern.
Very professional and accommodating
FRIEDSQUID

Wow! a little contraversy sure livens things up lol.Shades of MM man!(if u dont know who that is,don't ask!)

Btw-For those who do not know,Steve is in the house.
C'mon Steve,we're all dying to know lol,Real or Unreal?
PM'ing aint fair lol

Hi Patrick,

This is Steve (Canadiancoinandpaper) - Rob was kind enough to leave a message for me explaining the email you recieved. It's a fraud - but having read this post I believe Ebay has confirmed that with you.

I'm currently working and on the road (Not fishing today Rob - lol (Rob knows I love fly fishing)) and will email you later to follow-up.

As one of the other members said, be careful not to reply to the 'spoof' email and login to your ebay account under that email - if you have change your password directly through ebay Asap.

Aside from trying to get you to pay the scammers they are also trying to obtain your ebay id / password.

I have noticed that there are times when Ebay buyers have emailed me and their email goes 'only' to my email address attached to ebay and then to that email's spam folder. I check this from time to time - however, I primarily only check my ebay email that is on my Ebay Inbox.

There is currently nothing wrong with my paypal account that I am aware of - so you may choose this form of payment or even a money order. I am a real estate agent, and my public website is: www.stevenoei.com, my cel # is 604-808-8850.

Aside from Rob, I am known to Arthur Richards, and Don Olmstead.

I have recieved similar scam emails like the one you've mentioned  but essentially, if I don't see it in my Ebay Inbox, but only in my email account attached to my Ebay account - then I assume it's a fraud and delete it.

Hope the above helps - and thanks again for bringing this to the attention of the forum members and myself.

As a last word  - to the member who suggested to "go ahead and pay" with the moneygram. Firstly, I love good humour - but I would like to suggest in this case that the poster really has a serious concern and we should really give some thought about posting silly answer like that because it would be a terrible situation for him / any collector who may actually take your advise and follow-up with the moneygram and get scammed. Getting ripped off, not even the loss in Dollars is bad for ecommerce and our hobby, so it's no joke - IMHO.

(Thanks for the call / help Rob!)

Lol... Hey Rob... no I'm not like the Loch Ness Monster, Sasquatch, or the Giant Squid!

Lol... Hey Rob... no I'm not like the Loch Ness Monster, Sasquatch, or the Giant Squid!

Boy if I didn;t know better I would have thought that this was a fat joke directed towards me 

Lol... friedsquid... no pun intended. I was watching a Discovery Channel doc. on the Giant Squid last night so I thought I'd throw that in...lol.

But what I wouldn't give for  fried squid  with pepper salt right now.

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I wouldn't know how to dial their numbers from here-I'm in Mexico

Ok good I have the real fisher STEVE   I use to buy from you before I think...


Contact me tonight with Email, we gonna finalize our deal. (look on your personal email I already sent you something this morning)

BTW: Rocken, Steve is right.... if it happen to a newbie who first time dealing with Ebay he would lost $$$$$$$$$$


Patrick
 

I wouldn't know how to dial their numbers from here-I'm in Mexico

Ask directory assistance for the number to NESSIE.

Lol... hey Rob... no wonder you weren't picking up your phone number. Thanks from calling from PV! I hate it everytime you tell me you're in PV with all that sunshine!

It was sudden like Steve,not planned at all.
My brother showed up at my door at 6am Friday,the dreaded words we all fear"I just split from my wife.Can I stay awhile?"
I think he had foreknowledge that Jo Ann was in Puerto V.
Now you know my place Steve, a couple ,okay.Two guys,no thanks lol.Gave me a good reason to high tail it out of town.Bad news,back this Friday.

I couldn't resist the call.The message I left you" Steve,your the topic de jour( on the CPMF" (paraphrasing)would have a dead man looking for his lap top 

Not too mention the seriousness of the situation

Ask directory assistance for the number to NESSIE.

I do not believe we have that service in PV.It is 'no nessicito'

the dreaded words we all fear"I just split from my wife.Can I stay awhile?"

So does this work for anyone that might happen to knock on your door in PV

eBay Phishing and spoofing are quite common.  There are many scammers out there including operations from Nigeria who run 24/7.

I have had all of the above (suspicious "spoofs/phishing" in my past transactions).  The most common is a phishing email from "Ebay Security" about how you must re-activate your account (by eventually changing your password).  You end up changing your password and not only opening up your account to scammers but also revealing too much account info in the process.  You can easily detect a lot of the spoofs by clicking on the Properties of the email to see that it actually hasn't been sent by ebay at all (but may have ebay written somewhere in their address).  I always cut and paste and include as much info as I can in reporting this suspicious activity.

eBay often replies by stating they will never ask you for sensitive info like the above.

How you pay for your items won is just as important.  Its important to be safe, vigilant and use a secure proven method that gets to the seller in as safe a manner as possible.  Besides PayPal (to new sellers) and personal cheques (to sellers I know), an interac money transfer is the most effective option for a seller I have yet to buy from.