Escrow Fraud via Autotrader & Ebay

[HRAI]

Good morning,

I recently found a particularly cheap car on Autotrader. I contacted the seller who was "supposedly" based in Switzerland. The story was the recession had driven them back to their home country and now they wanted to sell the car. The car was genuine - I checked it out via the local BMW garage (tracing registration) and the person was so helpful it was unbelievable. They then suggested they shipped it to me - but to protect both parities said we should use an Escrow service. This service was supposed to be via EBAY.

They said they'll set up a "Buy it now" deal via ebay. So a day later I receive what looks like a very official email from Ebay with all their terms and conditions etc etc. In my excitement I arranged for the funds to be transferred almost immediately. The bank details however did not seem like "EBAY" bank details but unfortunately by the time I got suspcious - it was too late. I also noted afterwards that the address that the email was coming from was "ebay@safe-autotrader.co.uk". I then forwarded this email to spoof@ebay.co.uk and surely enough - they confirmed it was a spoof email.

Fortunately within 24 hours I recalled the payment I got my money back so apart from a bruised ego - I'm fine !
What I'd like to do is to try report this person on the relevant site so that someone can investigate them. Any idea how best to do this please?
In the meantime - the person's email address is "ambie677@yahoo.co.uk". They will claim they are not contactable via phone.

The bank account details the money should be paid into is as follows: C.Trofin. Barclays Bank. 278 Hoe Street, London. Account Number: ****9906. Sort Code: 20-53-00.

Incase you come across this person - naturally don't go anywhere near them.

[jjkeane]

Hi everyone

I found a similar car on carlist.ie vw touareg said the very same thing
for a price of 7000 and he was going to pay the shipping charges and
the lot it sounded very good I was a bit worried when he sent me the
email that was supposed to be from eBay and I tried to click the
contact us button it just opened a yahoo home page so alarm bells
started ringing so I emailed eBay and told them and they said it wasn't
one of there transaction no's so I questioned the guy who maintained his
name was mark Sullivan and he tried to say that he was going to contact eBay straight away about an hour after I recieved another email from eBay well supposed to be anyways saying sorry that the whole situation was a mixup so I then emailed back trying to get some feed back about the mark guy but he emailed back saying that this was confidential another thing was I was getting info on the email address and it said it was set up in 01 January so here's bank details Receiving Beneficiary: EMILIAN GHELIUC
Bank Name: LLOYDS TSB PLC
Bank Address: 564-568 HIGH ROAD, WEMBLEY, MIDDLESEX, HA0 2AB, UNITED KINGDOM
Account Number: 17834860
IBAN: GB59 LOYD 3099 3217 8348 60
BIC: LOYDGB21346
SORT CODE: 30-99-32

so I knew that eBay was going longer that that so luckily the transaction
never went through so keep an eye out for this guy people

[JaxHot]

and what was the email address the scammer used?

[jjkeane]

Marksullivan@live.com

[jjkeane]

Hi
the email he was using was mark.sullivan@live.com

[JaxHot]

email that was supposed to be from eBay
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address is?
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thanks

[nottstu]

I had the same story from somebody calling himself Kevin Fleischacker <kevin55roz@yahoo.co.uk who followed up his plausible story with an email 'from' 'ebay@safe-autotrader.co.uk'

I didn't part with any money apart from a few pounds to get a HPI check on the car supposedly being sold but the thing which bothers me is that once you've encountered this kind of email scam and identified it as such there doesn't seem to be anybody interested in chasing up and prosecuting, just some patronizing automated reply from ebay.

Any one know how to actually get the perpetrators pursued by the law - I have their bank details!!!

Stuart.

[lightfair]

Hello,

there are two things you can do:

1. File a report with the police. Make them aware that this is organized crime; and make it very clear that you almost fell victim to it and that this means that there are very likely numerous other victims.
2. Please post the bank details here.

Thanks,

lightfair

[nottstu]

2. Please post the bank details here.

Pay to: NICOLAE Oxxxx Pxxxx
Bank Name: BARCLAYS BANK PLC Bank
Address: 28 GEORGE STREET, LUTON, LU1 2AE, UNITED KINGDOM
Account Number: 50501069 IBAN - GB72BARC20533050501069 BIC - BARCGB22 SORT
CODE - 20-53-30

I gave all this and more to the police, they weren't interested, in fact I don't think they understood.
Such concern as they did show seemed to last only until they worked out that I'd not actually lost any money and wasn't going to.

ADMIN EDIT: Obscured the PAY TO name to protect a victim of ID Theft.

[nottstu]

2. Please post the bank details here.

Pay to: NICOLAE Oxxxx Pxxxx
Bank Name: BARCLAYS BANK PLC Bank
Address: 28 GEORGE STREET, LUTON, LU1 2AE, UNITED KINGDOM
Account Number: 50501069 IBAN - GB72BARC20533050501069 BIC - BARCGB22 SORT
CODE - 20-53-30

I gave all this and more to the police, they weren't interested, in fact I don't think they understood.
Such concern as they did show seemed to last only until they worked out that I'd not actually lost any money and wasn't going to.

ADMIN EDIT: Obscured the PAY TO name to protect a victim of ID Theft.