I’m in SA, selling an antique table on eBay for $100. Nice table but not unique or rare.
In the last 48 hours there have been three buyers send me offers, but want to organise freight interstate. They’ve gone into long descriptions about how well it would fit the decor of their cottage etc etc.
The feedback of the buyers is 0, 1 & 2.
I’ve said no, but am curious about how this works as a scam.
Interstate Delivery eBay Scam
LCool Jools on 25/05/2023 - 21:02
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with the overpayment scam, can't you just keep the over paid money?
They pretend to overpay you with a fake payment receipt OR the pay you from another hacked/fraudulent account elsewhere & the transaction gets reversed.
aaah
ok so next time i pretend to also send the item too
They don't actually pay you.
If you're selling something for $500 they'll ask for your 'email address to confirm payid'. you'll then get an email that says they've sent you $750 and then they'll ask you to check the email and go "oh no i sent you too much, can you send me the $250 back"
They have $250
You have nothing
If i ever get this scam
I'll post nothing
I'll ask them for their payid email
And send them their confirmation email back that i also sent too muchAnd i'll see how long i can keep this dance up
@FoxJump: I seriously doubt that'll work. Typically these scammers are overseas and won't even have the facility to payout from any account.
As well the scam won't ask you to payid them money because that means the institution is in Australia and their bank account is too, and that's easily traceable. Banks/AFP would have a field day if they were that stupid.
No, they ask you to go to a website and fill in your credit card details.
@coffeeinmyveins: They use Australian bank accounts. These are mules.. typically people who've been scammed themselves into passing on money received in their bank account and forwarding it elsewhere, keeping a % for themselves. Most mules believe its a legit job.
decor of their cottage etc etc.
"cottage" ????
Must be in Tasmania
Maybe they are in "Battery point" ?
I had this once. I was selling a betty boop statue that I found in a dumpster on gumtree and someone in QLD wanted me to freight it to them.
They paid for the freight, i dropped it off at the freight pickup location nearby and they paid me. I think all up it cost them like $600 and they wanted it for a retro themed bar they were building.
Not everyone who does this is a scam, but 99.9% are.
Not everyone who does this is a scam, but 99.9% are
Great odds… 🙄
Thanks captain obvious
How in the hell do you know it's a scam ? Accept an offer and see if they pay you to start proceedings. Come back here for step 2 .
I can assure you there is much better ways for Scammer's .
Probably a scam because the table is nothing special and interstate buyers generally won't pay the hundreds it costs to ship a non-rare item that is worth <$100 across the country?
I can assure you there is much better ways for Scammer's .
There's really not, these freight/my daughter will pick it up scams are easy to do and someone is bound to fall for it.
Thanks all, suspected it would have been one of these but seems like a lot of effort for the scammers.
It I had more time I’d love to follow through for the sport of it, but sold it in less than 24 hours on Marketplace to a local.
No more selling on eBay I guess
This overpayment scam is not only on eBay. It happens FB marketplace and Gumtree all the time.
The upgrade to a business payid account scam is also pretty common on FBM
https://news.nab.com.au/news/payid-scam/
It will be the overpayment scam - or the scam where you pay some odd website for the freight AND the table, and the courier will bring it you all in cash when they come to pick it up.