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I don’t know how this happened, but I received an email from eBay (in my My Messages, too, so I know it was really from eBay – I checked!) concerning my newly arrived Prairie Falcon Griffin.
Quote:Dear tyrrlin,
I am contacting you from my daughter’s eBay user account regarding — 300299441345 WINDSTONE EDITIONS “PRAIRIE FALCON” MALE GRIFFIN #1 –(you placed a bid on my auction ), because eBay blocks any communications after the auction is over so that`s why now i`m forced to contact you from my daughter`s eBay account .
I need your agreement on this so I may contact eBay to confirm you the winning position, otherwise I’ll relist the item.
I am sorry for the inconvenience, but I need an answer as soon as possible as your last BID OFFER will be taken into consideration .
So,if you`re still interested please email me at: david.livingston33@gmail.com or give me your e-mail address so we can correspond .
Thanks for your interest ,
PS: Please do not contact me through the eBay system because this is my daughter’s eBay user account and i cant access it all the time. PLEASE CONTACT ME DIRECTLY AT david.livingston33@gmail.com– jim_zyrowski
I *did* forward to eBay’s spoof team, as well as John (figured he should know), but as this was an actual eBay email, I wanted to spread the word about this practice. Fortunately, I know you guys at Windstone relatively well, and know what email addresses are officially Windstone’s.
The amusing part is that Mr. Prairie Falcon Griffin is sitting on my shelf, so I wonder how this guy’s gonna relist it. *wry half-smile*
Anyone else have problems with this?
Windstone collector in remission. 😉
Yikes, that’s scary! 😮 Because if it was not a Windstone auction, it’d be easy to fall for that. I wonder how on earth they managed to get that in your Messages.
Tyrrlin wrote:I don’t know how this happened, but I received an email from eBay (in my My Messages, too, so I know it was really from eBay – I checked!) concerning my newly arrived Prairie Falcon Griffin.
That the message was genuinely sent through eBay is not surprising. Hack an account and you can use it to contact any eBay member with impunity.
The dead giveaway is that he asks you to not use eBay to reply. If you replied through eBay the owner of the account would discover that their account had been hacked.
You did exactly the right thing, contacting eBay and John, and NOT letting this joker get your email address by replying to him directly.
Hmm, scary yes. But easily done even without hacking an account. They could set up a phony ebay account. remember when we talked about some of us knowing who some of the bidders are? i could contact you right after the auction ended with a email like this, and i mean right after the auction was over and ebay would have nothing but a phony ebayer (public computers). but from what i can see since you recieved it so late, they went thru Windstones feedback profile and then sent the letter. What it all boils down to, is you did the right thing, but everyone needs to be careful even if it is an email from ebay. Thieves are coming up with new scams everyday.
Wow, scary. I have not had that happen yet, but it makes me wish I could find these guys and personally slap them.
Don’t people have anything better to do with their time than try to scam innocent people? Makes me sick to hear all about “new” scams…if you have that much free time get a job. :shout:
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Sun Dragon Koi #3I got an unusually sophisticated Phishing scam email from “ebay” yesterday too!The easy-to-identify old style phishing messages don’t address you personally, or specifically describe the items you are selling, but this one did! I don’t remember which item it was, but it sounded totally legit. The tip-off was that it was sent to my personal email, not Windstone’s ebay-service email, but just to be sure, I also checked my personal ebay messages, and it wasn’t a real message. Weasels.
WOW 😮 That is really scary, I am glad that we all know where the Special Pieces come from but if we were someone who didn’t that would be so easy to fall for… 😮
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😡 I got a similar email from eBay too not that long ago and reported it.
I guess they think we are stupid.
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I even got one recently from Kijiji about the bird I’m looking for.
Almost made me believe….but you wouldn’t beleive what they were saying about the strawberry finches. 😮 😆
But that’s another story and I don’t want to hijack this thread. 🙂I thought the winning bidder’s username is hidden now, do they actually show it after the auction is over? I know that I can see my name on my end, but I assumed it was hidden from everyone else. It seems to me that I didn’t know who won the Prairie Falcon until I saw the thread with him pictured the other day. But even then, I don’t know your user ID. But what is the scammer trying to accomplish by doing this–are they trying to get you to send the money to them, instead of Windstone? It seems if you use the “Pay Now” from the listing itself, it couldn’t possibly go anyplace else but the seller. But yeah, I have learned that compulsive liars like to be very elaborate in their stories (such as the having to use the daughter’s ebay account, and that ebay won’t let seller contact winner after auction ends, blah blah blah 👿 🙄 :spank: 😥 XD )
The more they talk, the bigger a hole they dig! XD49ER wrote:I thought the winning bidder’s username is hidden now, do they actually show it after the auction is over? I know that I can see my name on my end, but I assumed it was hidden from everyone else. It seems to me that I didn’t know who won the Prairie Falcon until I saw the thread with him pictured the other day. But even then, I don’t know your user ID. But what is the scammer trying to accomplish by doing this–are they trying to get you to send the money to them, instead of Windstone? It seems if you use the “Pay Now” from the listing itself, it couldn’t possibly go anyplace else but the seller. But yeah, I have learned that compulsive liars like to be very elaborate in their stories (such as the having to use the daughter’s ebay account, and that ebay won’t let seller contact winner after auction ends, blah blah blah 👿 🙄 :spank: 😥 XD )
The more they talk, the bigger a hole they dig! XDI think they get the username from the feedback lists. I don’t leave feedback until I have item in hand, so maybe that’s when they were able to peg on my auction… and the amount. Maybe there’s a “cutoff” amount before they try to go fishing for money. I just hope we don’t see more “Prairie Falcon Griffin #1” on eBay again any time soon like we did with some of the dragons. That got insane after a while.
Windstone collector in remission. 😉
I already said this once, and I’ll say it one more time. Anyone with half a brain can figure out about 75% of the bidders. Just be very careful on non Windstone ( as in from the company) auctions unless you’ve dealt with them before. Then always use the ebay messenger unless you know the seller.
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