CUunderH2O
Contributor
Hi everyone,
Just wanted to warn you about a second chance offer I received earlier this week. For the past couple of weeks I'd been bidding on several lenses offered by the EBay store CametaCamera. I lost all of the auctions, but then this week I received a Second Chance Offer. It came through EBay (I viewed the message when I logged into EBay and checked my messages), but there was a message from the seller within the email that said I was to contact the seller at a slightly different email address than the one Cameta uses (the domain was cametastock.com). I was suspicious, especially since the offer was for far less than the lens was worth, and they were offering free shipping. So, I went to the CametaCamera website and emailed them at their auctions email address to verify this offer. They emailed me back quickly and said it was not from them, and that their account had been hijacked. EBay sent me an email the next day to tell me that it was a fraudulent offer. Today, the false seller contacted me through another false email (AOL this time), and said he was now in Europe, that he would be using something called the eBay Exchange Package Service, and that I wouldn't have to pay anything up front. It has been forwarded to the EBay Account Security Team for further action.
Please be careful! I didn't expect this to happen when dealing with a reputable EBay store, so read all the fine print in any second chance offers you get, no matter how legitimate they look, and verify those offers before accepting them.
Just wanted to warn you about a second chance offer I received earlier this week. For the past couple of weeks I'd been bidding on several lenses offered by the EBay store CametaCamera. I lost all of the auctions, but then this week I received a Second Chance Offer. It came through EBay (I viewed the message when I logged into EBay and checked my messages), but there was a message from the seller within the email that said I was to contact the seller at a slightly different email address than the one Cameta uses (the domain was cametastock.com). I was suspicious, especially since the offer was for far less than the lens was worth, and they were offering free shipping. So, I went to the CametaCamera website and emailed them at their auctions email address to verify this offer. They emailed me back quickly and said it was not from them, and that their account had been hijacked. EBay sent me an email the next day to tell me that it was a fraudulent offer. Today, the false seller contacted me through another false email (AOL this time), and said he was now in Europe, that he would be using something called the eBay Exchange Package Service, and that I wouldn't have to pay anything up front. It has been forwarded to the EBay Account Security Team for further action.
Please be careful! I didn't expect this to happen when dealing with a reputable EBay store, so read all the fine print in any second chance offers you get, no matter how legitimate they look, and verify those offers before accepting them.