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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kevken1959" data-source="post: 408453" data-attributes="member: 755">For them to catch someone like that they have to do this dozens and dozens, if not hundreds of times. It's like with credit card fraud, no one in law enforcement really cares. You were really lucky on that one. I have been selling on eBay for 20 years, and I have seen all types of scams, I have also been in business most of my life. When we get scammed with a credit card, no one ever gets caught, unless it is a local deal at the store where we can personally trace the guy and basically bring him in to law enforcement. When you own a business and you get a fraudulent credit card transaction, the credit card company gives the owner of the card their money back, and you as a business owner are left holding the bag. The owner of the card does not care as he got his money back, and the credit card company does not care as it has lost nothing, in fact they charge you $15 for the fraudulent transaction. Same thing happens with eBay scams, the bank you used, or the credit card company have not lost anything, eBay usually does not loose anything, and you are left holding the bag. You can call local law enforcement as a business owner or as a private citizen, but the most you will get from them is a "report". Usually these scams are from out of state, so you local law enforcement can't really do anything. Most of these scams are not for thousands and thousands of dollars, like on a vehicle, they are for smaller stuff under $1,000, and in reality, we as a business don't even waste our time anymore calling the police to do a report, and I would be willing to be most sellers or buyers on eBay don't report this stuff either, and even if they do, no one will look into it anyways. So, you could probably do this all your life and never get caught. The only way they will go after this people is if they are constantly stealing on eBay and eBay is actually loosing money, or they are stealing directly form the credit card company, where the credit card company is loosing money. If the big businesses are loosing money time and time again, they will look for you, they will find you and you will end up in jail. Or the scammer has to do this to such a big degree that someone in law enforcement eventually, because of all the complaints, has no other choice than to look at it. Here is a guy in South Florida that scammed over 5,500 buyer on eBay of over $717,000 before the caught him...[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2010-02-23-fl-e-bay-scam-south-florida-20100223-story.html[/URL]</blockquote>All really good points. Like I said though, the good thing about ebay is that they offer buyer protection. True, the scammer will probably not be caught, but my main goal would be to get my money back. Luckily, I think I've finally bought enough cars and stuff, so my chances of being scammed has gone way down, lol.[/QUOTE]

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