Ebay Scammer biting - here we go.....

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Mo is back

Here is the spoof Ebay payment form he sent me… ps I am not Denis Shaw,

Buy with confidence on eBay Motors!
Dear Denis Shaw,
The Vehicle Purchase Protection program protects your vehicle purchase against fraud and material misrepresentation. This program is provided by eBay Motors for free on this transaction. There’s no sign-up, opt-in, or registration necessary. Your vehicle purchase is protected for up to £20,000.00 or the vehicle purchase price, whichever is lower.
Our Department must inform you that we constantly encourage our customers not to disclose sensitive documents and information (e.g. V5 registration document, serial number, VIN - vehicle identification number, Tax and MOT documents, etc.) about their vehicles. We accurately verify all vehicle information and documents before launching an escrow transaction. Concerning your transaction in particular, regarding the 1964 MERCEDES 230 SL, we confirm that the vehicle and all documents involved have been minutiously verified and we guarantee it is genuine.
We verified all the details of this transaction and we concluded that they are accurate. Our verifications confirm seller’s contact information and his ability to deliver the vehicle advertised on our site.
Seller: Muhammad Saheerudeen Khoodabux
Address: 4026 Debrecen, Péterfia u. 57, Hungary
Buyer: Denis Shaw
Address: (please provide your complete address for shipping purposes)
Item Title: 1964 MERCEDES 230 SL - SUPERB !!
Item Price: £7,200.00 GBP
Item Location: Debrecen, Hungary
Shipping Status: Ready to ship
Shipping Cost: Included
Please follow our instructions to complete the transaction safely:
Next step to be taken: The buyer must transfer the payment to eBay’s designated escrow agent for escrow transactions in Hungary.
Payment must be sent by: Bank Transfer
It is recommended to send payment as soon as possible, because your purchase protection is valid for 60 days only. Sending payment by any other method of payment will void this transaction and your right to refund.
PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS:
To submit payment, you have to transfer the money to our designated escrow agent for escrow transactions in Hungary, using the details below:
Receiving Beneficiary: Mohamed Kamal Omar
Account Owner: Mohamed Kamal Omar
Bank Name: CIB bank
Bank Address: 1132 Budapest, Vaci ut 6, Hungary
Swift Code: CIB HHUHB
Account Number: 10700488-55719849-50000005
IBAN: HU64 1070 0488 5571 9849 5000 0005

IMPORTANT:
When filling in the “beneficiary details (name and address)” field on the bank transfer form, you must not use the seller’s name and address. The “beneficiary details (name and address)” field on the bank transfer form must be filled in with our designated escrow agent’s name (Mohamed Kamal Omar) and the bank’s address (1132 Budapest, Vaci ut 6, Hungary).
In order to properly validate your payment and avoid transfer related issues, you need to send us a scanned copy of the bank transfer receipt by replying to this notification ([email protected]), or to the fax number: 0036-1-577-2064.
Our Department will verify the bank transfer and if the payment is available the seller will be notified to proceed with shipping the merchandise (1964 MERCEDES 230 SL).

The seller will have 5 days to forward the shipping details. If no data is provided, a refund request has to be sent and the money will be returned to the buyer. Once the vehicle is received, the buyer has 7 days to inspect it. After the inspection period is over, the buyer will contact eBay with the results of the inspection. If the buyer refuses it, the vehicle will be returned to the seller, on seller’s expense and the money will be returned to the buyer.


PURCHASE PROTECTION AND REFUND:
Currently, this seller has a £20,000.00 deposit in an eBay managed purchase protection account. Transactions with this eBay seller are covered by purchase protection against fraud and description errors.

For your safety the payment details will be dealt with the utmost security and will not be handed to any third parties. We must remind you that we are in full control of the money transfer from the moment we receive it. Once the payment has been sent to us via bank transfer, no one but you will have access to it.

We will release the funds to the seller only after you receive and agree with the merchandise (1964 MERCEDES 230 SL). Should you need a refund for this transaction the insured amount will be taken from the seller’s purchase protection account and sent to you. The refund is sent to your bank account, or by check or money order. The account is managed and supervised by eBay’s SafeHarbor team.


HERE ARE THE SITUATIONS SUITABLE FOR A REFUND REQUEST:
Vehicle Purchase Protection covers buyers who have completed a vehicle transaction on the eBay Motors site for numerous types of deliberate and material misrepresentation by the seller. The protection program provides coverage for situations such as:

  1. Paying for a vehicle and never receiving it.
  2. Sending a deposit for a vehicle and never receiving the vehicle.
  3. Paying for and receiving a vehicle:
    -with undisclosed damage.
    -of a make and/or model that is different than what was described in the seller’s listing.

IMPORTANT
**If you have other questions about this seller or not receiving the vehicle as promised, please reply to this email and we will send you additional information about what to do next.
Note: The seller has sent a separate email to confirm this sale. This eBay notice was sent to you from Ebay Safe Harbor team with the full support of the Square Trade center.

We value your business and thank you for using eBay.
Regards,
eBay Trust and Safety
eBay Customer Support


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Yo Mo! Just one further matter. It’s regarding you being one stupid azz SOB scammer. I pray you are impotent, as this world has enough trouble without you procreating too. Have you actually made any money with this weak attempt at a scam? If you are going to make money by robbing people, you need to be a lot better at it than you are. Disregard what your mum told you about you being “special”, you’re not! Your mother probably smoked crack when she was pregnant with you. You are an evolutionary dead end! Give it up mate.

I was thinking we all send 1 pound to the account but transfer fee at the cost of the receiver… Is that at all possible?.. that would be 1000s of negative transaction on the guy account costing him big time… Might think twice about it next time…

very good idea… I think you should walk this straight to the fraud department at the police station - this is enough evidence for him to be done and they can trace him now.

m

I’m a bit of a cynic when it comes to police action in these matters and in several others e.g. Andrea’s bike and the call to the police… what more can they ask for than being tipped off while the crime is being committed in London??? Did they ever show up?

I think you should just try and piss this guy off. I’ve done it before and the guy took the bait and I had him fuming in no time at all.

minutiously verified”??? Per-LEASE!!!

Quotes from e-bay’s own “buy safely” bit:

5. Escrow

Recommended for high-price items.

Benefits:

Payment is held by the escrow service until you receive and approve the item. Use caution when considering use of an escrow service to pay for your item. For eBay transactions, you should only use the following eBay-approved escrow companies: www.escrow.com (US and UK); www.escrowaustralia.com.au (AU); www.escrow-europa.com (IT and ES); http://ebay.iloxx.de (DE); www.tripledeal.com (FR, NL, BE). Learn more about how escrow works.

Doesn’t look like this escrow company in the scam even gives its name, and it’s certainly not one of those listed.

But the scary thing is, it does look fairly convincing for the gullible.