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Ebay Scam Alert !!!!!
I recieved a lenghty question from a potential buyer for my 86 250r on ebay. Basically the guys said he was willing to buy it now for the $7900 but he had his attorney draw up papers for his protection from bad deals on ebay. After 3 emails through ebay he wants my email address to send me the contracts. So I give him my email address and he sends me the contracts right away.
I open them up after a virus scan and the pages are blank. So I email the guy right back and tell him to resend them they were blank. I get no response
Now I start smelling a rat .Sure enough , I go to log onto yahoo and it says my password is invalid. I try to log onto ebay...guess what, my password is invalid.
I made it to paypal and changed it before they got it but now I cannot access any of my accounts. Anyone have any ideas?????
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Thanks Adam !!!!!!
Last edited by whyzee; 07-04-2006 at 10:35 PM.
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tippin
No problem, did you get it all restored yet??
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Somewhat, I was able to get back into my ebay account but still no yahoo. So i had to create a new yahoo account. So all my mail is still going to this loser who stole my account. I have had that yahoo account for 9 years. I am totally lost right now. all my passwords for important accounts were stored in a notepad in my mailbox. Paypal just notified me in my new yahoo account that my account has been comprimised and I need to change passwords. I think its another BS attempt so I just forwarded it to ebay. This is freaking me out. I need to set up a new checking account now, savings account, credit cards etc. Pretty scary.
I am usually pretty good with identifying scams but this was a good one. I guess what should have tipped me off was the fact that the guy wanted to buy it for $7900
. Seriously though If i could market this bike the way ebay won't let me I bet I could get above $10K . All we keep doing is selling stuff to each other with the occasional newbie who remembers how cool these things were or like last week when a kid drove buy my shop and saw one parked outside. He was 18 yrs old! I want a rocker or a rapper to get one of these in a video!
Anyway enough babbaling ,
Thanks for your help adam!!
Last edited by whyzee; 07-05-2006 at 06:58 PM.
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That kind of thing makes me crazy, I would be besides myself with anger...heck I couldnt get online for the second time in a week for an extended period of time and I was pissed. If it were my world and we could catch him it would be fun to smash every knuckle of both hands with a framing
while tied to a chair with USB and ethernet cables!!!! There is no justice!!!
Wikipedia "All Terrain Vehicle" Definition excerpt
Other smaller or lesser known companies, such as Tiger ATV, Franks, and Cagiva, produced racing three wheelers, but in much smaller numbers. Few of these machines are known to exist today and are highly sought by collectors.
Check out my Tiger 3 wheeler Webpage..my quest for a TIGER MUSEUM started 2004 http://sites.google.com/site/tigerrotax/home
Rides: TIGER Factory line up, Tricky Dicks Cagiva 200, 4- Franks 3 and 4 Wheelers
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Yeh like OC said!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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