I was browsing the jobs category at the craigslist sites and came across a posting for an eBay seller:
Ebay Sales Associate / Trading Assistant
COMPANY/MANAGER BACKGROUND
Christian Family Collectibles has been in business 5 years and brokers/contracts with dealers and sells various collectible items on Ebay.
My alternate career, recent ear surgery and demanding schedule is leaving me with less time to run this business so Im hiring associates to help the company.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS:
Will Train. Candidates should be familiar with ebay and its features. Please email for details. Resumes are not required but are preferred. Honesty, high moral standards and high desire to please customer.
COMPENSATION
A highly competitive percent of each sale with sales ranging $5k-$20k monthly.
So I replied, and the poster emailed me back. I am a bit cautious since being screwed back a few years ago off eBay, so I did some investigating. I checked usacomplaints.com using the person's name (Dana Phillips) and their company name (Christian Family CoinsandComics) and got nothing. Then I ran their email address ([email protected]) by google and this popped up:
Mommysplaceforums.net/bb/viewtopic.php? P=8804&
A complaint some woman filed who lost thousands to this con artist. I'm posting this to warn others so hopefully they don't get screwed. Although I didn't sign up with them or lose money (thankfully), I had a feeling this was a suspicious person.
For one thing, "Dana" doesn't specify their gender, but included a picture of a female with a balloon in the email (to gain trust). I went to image source URL where the picture is hosted and looked back a little in the directory. Turns out there are two pictures, a male and a female... So this person just includes a picture of the man or the woman as they feel.
See here:
http://photobucket.com/albums/y292/collectibles/
I asked them to give me their web address or their seller ID on eBay to see the kind of things they sell and was told this seller ID: jhermwag8zu4
I don't know if they just picked some random seller out of the blue to impersonate, but figured they probably tell all their potential victims that ID to gain trust.
Hope this was able to help someone!!!
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