Snelle e bay account hacked ?

if not then they are trying to get money in quick.

 

Nah...the bottom has fallen out of Ducatis ;-) lol

I've text them

 

I smell a rat ! The Alstare 1098 on the official Snell's site is £7995 not £5000 !

 

i can't believe how some show the slightest element of belief for this crap….

has anyone close to snells checked they are aware...

 

I've put a deposit down on the Desmo.

 

eBay dealers are getting hammered this week. Perhaps eBay itself had been hacked

 

Oh well maybe they will offer a lower rate!


eBay = daylight robbery!

 

i have been thinking that too

 

yes...see above. But I chopped the multi for that desmo first ;-)

 

How does this happen? There are far too many dealers getting hacked for this to be phishing surely.

Any tech geeks know?

 

Nothing showing at all now in the showroom, looks like someone has reacted.

 

I just bought the whole job lot, very nice gentleman emailed me and we did a Western Union money transfer. He's going to arrange delivery as soon as he gets back from working off shore and he's sorted out his divorce.

 

I don't get how this scam would benefit the scammers as they were all classified adverts. As far as I am aware it's like putting an advert in Autotrader in that it shows people what you have in your showroom. The difference to a regular ebay auction is that you then have to contact the dealer to go and buy the bike as you can't buy anything via ebay.

Unless the contact details also get subverted and people are stupid enough to pay over the phone without seeing the bike?

 

They send their communications directly to your email address and ask immediately for a delivery address. So they have your name, address and postcode, they're half way there to stealing your identity.

He claims no payment will be asked for until the bike arrives but that you will receive and email from ebay - presumably a fake one, which will ask you to sign in to a fake ebay somewhere.

I'm not really sure what details they can gleam from your ebay account but they may try your ebay email and password with paypal to see if it works? It only has to work once to be profitable... it doesn't cost any money to send emails.

 

that's exactly how they hope it will work - i've played along with several scammers in the past on Gumtree and despite me insisting that I needed to see the goods they repeatedly told me where to send my money. All the scams involving rare gems/diamonds a few years ago worked in the same way, although I think some sent a sample out praying that the would-be buyer didn't get it checked out. Apparently some people are that gullible/trusting etc

 

they will probably ask for holding deposits

 

I'll chase it up and see what they ask me to do