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Scam: Email from europe-deals.net

Postby surfdude » Tue Nov 25, 2003 11:12 pm

First off, thank you for creating this site and forum. It helped me to understand who I was dealing with, and prevent me from loosing money.

I have placed an advert for an item worth around $1,000 on ebay, and two days later, I had this email from a perspective customer:

Hello Dear Sir,
I have a shop in Austria - Graz and we need many products for the
Christmas time.
I am very interested in buying your item. Please let me know your final
price including UPS Express shipping. If you can supply me more units I
will be glad to purchase them and maybe you can offer me a little
discount.
We preffer UPS Express and FedEx Express shipping services, of course
on our charge.
Our payment method is via Europe Deals Escrow Comp.
(http://www.europe-deals.net).
My email address is mobile_ap@msn.com. Please use this email address
for further conversation.
Please let me know your answer if we can establish a deal with this
escrow.
I don't accept other method.
I hate paypal.

Looking forward to hear from you soon!

Best regards,
Pascual Alain.


I checked http://www.europe-deals.net against list of reputable escrow companies on ebay, but did not see it listed. I than tried to go to the named site, but it was down. Finally after searching in Google, I have come accross this site, and have read about the escrow fraud and europe-deals being one of them.

Warning to all that they must check who they are dealing with: do some background research first, and make sure that you use an escrow company that ebay recommends.

Take care...
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Re: Scam: Email from europe-deals.net

Postby peg » Mon Dec 01, 2003 2:16 pm

surfdude wrote:Warning to all that they must check who they are dealing with: do some background research first, and make sure that you use an escrow company that ebay recommends.

Take care...


Goode advice. Although many people don't like the eBay suggestions and that is fine, however, ALWAYS do your homework. If anything seems Strange or Odd about the transaction, DON'T BE AFRAID to ask the tough and hard questions. A legit buyer/seller won't be offended, and you will have peace of mind.

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