Is this a scam?

CyberGhost

http://cgi.ebay.ie/The-Way-to-get-your-Microsoft-Xbox-360-for-under-50-00_W0QQitemZ8238791610QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I see this type of actions on ebay all the time, interestingly the seller has a pretty good rep. I was wondering is this some kind of a scam or a trick? well obviously it must be something, but I don't know what?

dalk

If it looks too good to be true etc...

Probably leads up to some sort of pyramid scheme or something

Jumpy

Please note: YOU ARE NOT BIDDING ON AN ACTUAL XBOX 360 You are bidding on access to site to claim your XBOX360

CyberGhost

ah, thanks guys

damn pyramid schemers

pawn33

For stuff like this checkout
http://www.floodle.net/extra/ebayinfo/
Some of the eBay scams and their answers are listed.

stevenmu

CyberGhost wrote:

the seller has a pretty good rep

Scammers seem to be able to hijack peoples accounts to add some credibility to their scams

smeggle

You can allways check stuff on a place called www.scam.com - They appeared last year around the time of 'Juice Boosted' which advertised that they could give you 'Dial - Up' speeds faster than the then current ADSL Broadband (Giggles Inanely).

Obviously it was a scam and searches on it threw that place up. At the time I though myself they were actually behind it, (The juice boosted scam, that is), as they were heavily promoting 'Onspeed' and the likes but mainly a high propensity towards onspeed, (Another scam :rollseys: ).

It seems to have grown though since then and has good advice and quite a quick responce time in publishing scams or new ones as they become aware of them.

oh yeah and btw - keep an eye out for the latest 'PayPal' scam - had a couple of e-mails recently which was so obvious lmao ..

My e-mail just displays the html code not the html so

instead of getting

www.paypal.com

I get

<a href="www.nameofsomeidiotscammersphishingsite.com" target-"_blank">www.paypal.com</a>

or in other words - I get to see wether the link is actually going to paypal.

Disable html in your e-mails - although you'll get the html in text - it's a safer way of reading them (In case you open it inadvertantly) - Also remember - an html page can be 'Broken' in such a way that just 'Accidently' opening the html e-mail can load mal-ware to your system! Disable that by disabling html in 'ALL' e-mails...

They want to be 'Sneaky'? You just have to be more 'Sneaky' back

CyberGhost

Thanks