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Staind204
12-28-2005, 05:33 PM
Well I put my Xbox back up for auction and someone emailed me asking about the condition and asking price (not sure why they did this since it is CLEARLY stated in my auction). I replied and today I got this email from the person..

Thanks for your reply concerning my enquiry.I am satisfied with the
condition of the item and willing to offer you an amount of $220
including packing materials without you paying for any shipping charges cos i already have an account with FedEx.I would be glad to make payment with the following payment option :

By sending you a postal money order through my United State Postal Service(USPS) account. Kindly get back to me with your full mailing address so that i can explain the process on how to receive money order through it.Looking forward in doing business with you.
Billy.




I'm thinking this is some sort of scam since the buyer has 0 feedbacks. He could have just ended the auction using a BIN. Anyone had something similiar happen before?
dtcarson
12-28-2005, 05:38 PM
I haven't dealt with that, but yes, that sounds like a scam.

1. Buying outside of ebay. The fees are the seller's problem, not thebuyers.
2. Offering to put shipping on his account.
3. Postal money order.
4. 0 fb's

None of those in themselves are bad exceptfor 1, but add them together, it's a bad sign.
worx
12-28-2005, 05:38 PM
Yep - its a scam - stay far, far away.
Kayden
12-28-2005, 05:42 PM
Do you know any person you'd like to trust with $200 that talks like that?
Staind204
12-28-2005, 05:43 PM
I'm not even going to reply, I just wondered what you guys thought. Thanks.
Riyonuk
12-28-2005, 07:09 PM
Make him send money first :p
Deadpool
12-28-2005, 07:18 PM
Tell him to send cash. He won't be back then.
scsg75
12-28-2005, 07:22 PM
same old scam, only instead of a western union mo, he's using a postal mo. Which sounds like he's doing something with an online usps account, which is probably fake and once you go to try to get your money, it's too late, he has the xbox and you have no money.
wubb
12-28-2005, 08:31 PM
same old scam, only instead of a western union mo, he's using a postal mo. Which sounds like he's doing something with an online usps account, which is probably fake and once you go to try to get your money, it's too late, he has the xbox and you have no money.

Or he just has some totally spoofed site that lookes kind of like some kind of online USPS MO sending system. Which might be basically what you were saying. I don't really think there is a way to send a USPS MO through a USPS.com account.

Forward the e-mail to the USPS postal inspectors if you want to go to the trouble.
drsuper23
12-28-2005, 08:40 PM
Someone tried a similar scam on me by winning an auction that I had and then wanting me to send it to a completely different address in a different country. To compound that, he sent me a check for more than twice the amount to make up for any "trouble" that I might incurr. I got the check and ripped it apart as well as report him to ebay. He cancelled his account a day later and then I noticed from feedback that he tried the same scam with another seller around the same time.

Moral...
...if it's too good to be true, then it is.