I found a car on craigslist and the guy that was suppose to have the car wanted to go through ebay to have a third party. He wanted to make sure that it wasn’t a scam. I was told to get a moneygram and the deposit for the car was 2,000.00. Then I was told that I had to send the rest of the money so it would be shipped to me. Of course I never did get the car. This happened on April 21, 2009/ So I sent the moneygram to a guy named steve tremaine. He was suppose to be in San Diego, CA. Well I called the moneygram and was told he picked it up in Brooklyn, NY. I’m just trying to find out how to get my money back. The supposely emails from Ebay looked excatly like ebay’s website with all the fine print. If you can contact me through email or on my cell I would really appreciate it. Thank you for your time.
Fred Gulda
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This post was submitted by Fred.
May 31st, 2009 at 4:04 pm
I recently shipped a diamond ring to Brooklyn ny after receiving fake paypal emails telling me funds were paid and they wouldn’t be released to my account until a tracking number was provided. I am now out the ring , payment (6250.00) and 84.00 fedex shipping fee. I’m trying to take proper steps in solving this crime. Fraud and grand larceny!!!! I sold the ring because I needed the money not to be set in a deeper hole. Furious!!!!!!
November 1st, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Yet another report about eBay and the fraud they try to cover up.
My trouble stated a year ago when I purchased a car via ebay and not only did this 2007 car not make it home but it turns out it had been involved in an accident and had been put back together so badly that it’s a write-off.
I contacted eBay and got messed around but also discovered by linking phone numbers and cars together that the seller hand no less than eight other eBay accounts making him a trader and knowing it is an offence under the 1988 road traffic act for a trader to sell cars in such poor condition I contacted the police who seem unwilling to do a thing about it saying it was a civil matter which I could understand if I had the fraudsters address to commence legal proceeding myself.
The police past me off to the trading standards who played me along for months saying they were waiting for information from eBay and by the time this information arrived the trading standards had changed their tune and said I didn’t have information to back up my claim that the fraudster had been using all the account however they did admit that eBay only had fake names and address for all eight accounts I had mentioned having removed all the relevant web pages and by now the trading standards were also claiming they could not connect the dots for fortunately I had manage to keep copies of the eBay listings, blowing that excuse out the water.
Soon it became a game between the police and the Birmingham trading standards who said they could not do anything as they could not find a name or address of the fraudster and the police who where saying it worth their time.
I complained to the police for not taking action who seem more interested in arresting people for eating kit-cats whilst driving than investigating a serial fraudster that has ginger hair and is well over weight and is selling cars from around junction 2 on the M5 in Birmingham and so I lodge a complaint with the so called independent police complaints committee (IPCC) who by their own figures throw 89% of complaints in the bin and all they did was stretch the things out and would not even address my allegations against the police.
Yes folks I know eBay has a lot of friends in high places but I didn’t know that included the Police, Trading standards and the IPCC and to me the whole episode stinks of fraud at the highest level and yet when I made request under the freedom of information act requesting crime statistics on internet crime I received a two page reply informing me why they were not able to furnish my request.
eBay apparently provides special training to thousands of police officer each year and I was wondering if they ask the coppers if they prefer cream in their tea when serving it up and knowing eBays reputation we can all expect the police will be asking the MAFIA for gun control lessons in the near future.
What should had been an open and shut case of fraud has now been dragging on for over a year and having been so appalled by the cover up I now run the eBuster,co,uk that has copies of millions of eBay pages thus ensuring eBay and the Police find it much more difficult to brush these crimes under the carpet as if they never happened.