In a previous article, "three-eight-hotel" said:
Although, clearly a total scam... What's with the "eBay square trade
company", and the "eBay safe harbour team"? I haven't done any
research on this, but I'm assuming it's all out the window once you've
wired money Western Union?


Yes, the guy is lying through his teeth. He's trying to do the deal
outside of eBay's auction system and outside eBay's payment system so that
you have no protection.

Another scam that sellers get hit with - somebody from outside your
country buys your item, but then they contact you to say "So and So in
your country owes me money, so rather than having to make two
international transactions, he'll send you a cashier's check and you
forward me the item plus the difference between your selling price and how
much the cashier's check is for." You go ahead and do that, but a few
days after you sent the item and the money, the bank tells you that the
casheir's check was a forgery and you owe them the money back. But in the
meantime the scammer got your item plus a hunk of your cash.

And you know all all those spams floating around saying "there is a
problem with your ebay account, click here to log in"? Anybody stupid
enough to click on the link provided has now given their eBay account
details to somebody who can and will now use it to buy or sell
fraudulently.

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