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How to Spot FAKE 2nd Chance Offers on eBay Motors Auction Vehicles

Guest post by: Louis Bledsoe

Article Overview: If you place a non-winning bid on eBay Motors, you are eligible to receive 2nd chance offers from the seller. You are also a possible target for a scam artist who simply wants to rip you off for anything from a small deposit to the entire purchase price. The first clue is a 'too good to be true' price. This article will show you how to quickly verify that the offer is a fake.

How to Spot FAKE 2nd Chance Offers on eBay Motors Auction Vehicles

eBay Motors is one of the top three vehicle marketing sites on the Internet, and puts thousands of buyers and sellers together every day who conclude successful transactions. However, eBay buyers and sellers are also targets for scam artists.

Your best defense against getting scammed is a simple phone call. If your seller doesn't list a phone number and contact person, why on earth would you have enough confidence to bid on a vehicle worth thousands of dollars? That phone call is particularly important if you get an email referencing an auction that you did not win: “Lucky you. Here’s a second chance to buy the item you recently lost.“

It looks very convincing… but it could easily be a complete scam... especially if the PRICE being offered makes your heart skip a beat as the nerve to your greed center is stimulated.

Regardless of the method or motivation behind this attempt to rip you off, here's a method you can use to analyze this email:

The fake email uses graphics that the scammer has cloned from eBay, and it even uses a few genuine links. However, there will be FAKE links that are designed to get you in direct contact with the scammer. Without clicking your mouse, hover your pointer over every link on the page. Watch the bottom of your screen at the area where the text changes to reflect the target of the link that you are on. If you see a link that starts with‘mailto:‘, the offer you have received is a scam. Forward it to spoof@ebay.com immediately. Do not, under any circumstances, respond to it in any way. That's a good way to be guaranteed that you are on a 'sucker list' for the next 'too good to be true' deal that comes along.

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