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Scam Alert: Silver '73 Targa on eBay

I'm almost 100% sure this is a scam. This car has been on Craigslist all over the US with a low price. New seller with 0 feedback. Offers free shipping. The biggest giveaway is the phone number. If you do a reverse search on whitepages.com, it shows up as a VoIP. Scammers use VoIP to trick people into thinking they are legit with a "real" phone number. $20k? Too good to be true.

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Old 09-06-2013, 07:35 AM
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Reported it - if enough people do the same, eBay will pull it.
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NO QUESTION BIG SCAM

These guys always post the cars with free shipping to your door...RUN.

It's unreal the amount of scammers on eBay today and they cannot do a thing about it. I listed a nice car on eBay last week and the bidding was going good and a scammer bid on the car. I told eBay of course I got the Phillipines, and eBay cancelled his bid but ruined my auction, he did it 1 hour before closing....so it took a hour calling eBay and it was over then, they offered a free listing, big deal, it's only 6 bucks to list. Then eBay refused to tell me how all this is going on....to me eBay is just turning into a tool to get your car advertised, most wait for he auction to end to deal with the seller.
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I reported as a fraudulent listing... we'll see how quickly eBay acts.
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Can you tell us how you figured out the phone number was VOIP?
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Still up, I guess they don't care that much...
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Can you tell us how you figured out the phone number was VOIP?
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looks like ebay pulled it.........

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