Avoid Ebay Scams!!!

[Piratetip]

Was inquiring about a truck purchase on craigslist.
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/car/372506155.html

Asked for more pictures on the vehicle.
A link was given.
http://www.aw-motors-cars.com/ebaym...ihZ008QQcategoryZ6219QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem.htm
This sale is obviously a total scam.
Check out the quality of this ebay motors knockoff site.

People are getting good at this nowadays.

Watch out.

 

[johnathan1]

Wow, that's pretty good, but there is no place to bid...LOL.

 

[Piratetip]

Alright I broke down this fake sale.
Put the item on craigslist to attract attention with a great deal and false story.
Send a link to the interested buyer to a fake ebay site.
Fun isn't over yet.

Fake ebay site is hosted as http://www.aw-motors-cars.com/.
Whois pulls up a domain registered in Chicago. http://whois.domaintools.com/aw-motors-cars.com

You can see they list this page as being hosted by Internic.at
For those of you that know Internic is the world register for domain names.
So a first glance it could possibly look legit, BUT Internic.at is NOT the real Internic.
Whois this site now. http://whois.domaintools.com/internic.at
Pulls up as being registered in Austria.

So....
The fake ebay site is being hosted by a fake host which is then being sourced offseas.

These people put a TON of work into doing these scams.
Watch your asses.

 

[cnewingham]

this is what happens when you search the item #:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=151135172118&category0=&fvi=1

nothing found

 

[Piratetip]

Why would ebay list a item from a fake ebay site?
You obviously didn't read what I posted.
They get people in from other places like craigslist.

 

[suprarx7nut]

Fucking assholes. If they put all that work into something morally good, they'd be making money as well.... :nono:

....And not be at the bad end of a .45 down the road when their *trade* catches up with them...

 

[Poodles]

damn that's one professional copy of an ebay site...

a lot of people aren't internet savy enough to notice that it's not actually from ebay, which sucks cause you know people are getting ripped off...

 

[thechori]

it's odd that they only made a copy of that page, all of the links lead you back to the real ebay site. i wonder what this accomplished

edit

oh, i guess it's so that this random guy can pose as "elite_car"? or am i missin something

 

[Dirgle]

Actually it appears that there are 9 "elite_car"'s located in the index of this site.

http://www.aw-motors-cars.com/ebaymotors/aw/

 

[Piratetip]

Yup, I browsed through there as well.
All of which are probably around craigslist and random other places as well.

Actually it appears that there are 9 "elite_car"'s located in the index of this site.

http://www.aw-motors-cars.com/ebaymotors/aw/

 

[cnewingham]

Why would ebay list a item from a fake ebay site?
You obviously didn't read what I posted.
They get people in from other places like craigslist.

umm, yeah I did read what you posted. did you understand my post? obviously not. I did a search to bring it up that way other people realize that if they are forwarded to a link to ebay all they have to do is copy the item # and see if it is really listed there. Easiest way to find out if it is a valid listing unlike you tracking down all the locations of the hosts and ip addresses.