Sarah.....

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

The email addresses are current [as of: 10.02.2013]. I am currently dealing with 'Sarah' of: 21 Stirling Street Dundee DD3 6PH - According to www.192.com this address belongs to an 84 year old lady - Imagine the grief she is going to get!

'Sarah' is now calling herself "Sarah Hudson" of the above address and is selling classic cars on eBay - PLEASE BEWARE!!!

Best wishes
James

Hi James49! Thanks for reporting this scammer. In order to keep the info listed, we need the accompanying scam information. Can you please post the scam emails? Let us know if you have questions.

Hi, thanks for your reply - Do I just cut & paste the emails onto the post? Best wishes

Below is one of the emails:

Dear James Smith,

You can find attached the purchase invoice. You are currently involved in transaction Case ID 15HB5231F for item titled VINTAGE 1934 MORRIS MINOR TOURER GREEN/BLACK, total amount involved is £4,300. Your Case ID 15HB5231F is a genuine eBay transaction approved for Buyer Protection Program and the amount of £4,300 is 100% insured. Seller details are verified along with transaction details, Vehicle documents were verified before listing started, once we verified all documents and confirmed they are in good order we have approved the listing for buyer protection program. Seller is an eBay Member since: 22-Aug-06, all details are verified and confirmed by us.

You can proceed safe and secure with your purchase, a full refund/return policy is available just in case you do not accept the Vehicle.

Thank you for being part of the eBay community.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/
______________________________
eBay
The World's Online Marketplace

Email no 1: - With authentic looking eBay logos

eBay eBay sent this message to James Smith.
Your registered name is included to show this message originated from eBay.

Your invoice for eBay purchases - VINTAGE 1934 MORRIS MINOR TOURER GREEN/BLACK


Invoice for Transaction Case ID 15HB5231F between Sarah Hudson, as the Seller and James Smith, as the Buyer. Please follow our instructions to complete the transaction safely.


Seller:
Name: Sarah Hudson
Address: 21 Stirling Street
Dundee
DD3 6PH
United Kingdom


Buyer:
Name: James Smith
Address: [My address]

United Kingdom
Transaction Details:

http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/pict/261167550851.jpg
Case ID: 15HB5231F
Date: 10.02.2013
Status: Payment Pending
Item titled: VINTAGE 1934 MORRIS MINOR TOURER GREEN/BLACK
Buy It Now Price £4,300.00
Quantity Sold: 1
Insurance: YES
Delivery: Delivery details will be provided by seller after payment.
Buyer details*: James Smith

[My address]

United Kingdom

*Please check the details for an accurate delivery in order to avoid delays.

Payment must be submitted via Bank Transfer to the eBay Financing Center Agent Bank account in charge of this transaction. The payment will be secured until the Buyer receives, inspects and accepts the vehicle. Or, if it will be the case a full refund is given to the Buyer.
eBay Financing Center Agent*:
Beneficiary: N. Calen
Bank Name: Barclays
Account no: 93780929
Sort Code: 20-94-48
City: London
Country:
United Kingdom

*The Bank Wire transfer will be sent using this name and address.


Payment:
Invoice #15HB5231F

Subtotal: £4,300.00
Shipping(Free): £0.00

Deposit: £0.00
Total: £4,300.00


How to make the payment
Send the payment using eBay Financing Center Agent's bank account (found below) as payment details .
E-mail us*

the following payment information:

- Case ID or Invoice #
- Copy of the bank receipt
Fax* the Bank transfer payment receipt to eBay Financing Center Department at:

+44 (0)207 681 1118
*We strongly recommend that you confirm the payment by both e-mail and fax.

Important Notice
For security reasons please DO NOT release the payment details to the Seller or any other unauthorized person.


All the transaction, payment and personal information is considered confidential and will not be released under any circumstances.
Buyer Protection program security measures are constantly reviewed and modified given evolving circumstances globally.
Our main and constant priority is the safety of our customers.
Bank Wire transfers can be submitted with the help of your banking institution. To send a wire transfer, you need to have the following information:

- Beneficiary (person to whom the wire is being sent)
- The receiving bank's Sort Code and name of the bank
- Account number of beneficiary
- Location of the receiving bank.

When payment is received, it will be verified and secured into a non-interest bearing trust account. Payment verification process usually takes less than 24 hours. After payment is secured, the Seller is authorized to deliver the vehicle.The Seller has 3 business days to send the Buyer and eBay Customer Support the tracking number of the delivery. If no tracking number is provided, a full refund is immediately sent to the Buyer.

The Buyer receives the vehicle and has 5 business days to inspect it. If it is complete and as described, the Buyer should accept the vehicle. If he refuses the vehicle delivery is reversed at no additional cost and full refund is given to the Buyer.

After the inspection period is over, the Buyer must contact eBay Financing Center Customer Support with the result of the inspection. If the Buyer refuses the vehicle, the refund will be sent to the Buyer after the tracking number for the returned shipment is verified. If the vehicle is accepted, eBay Financing Center Department submits the payment directly to the Seller within 3 business days.
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Thank you,
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Bank Details Noted - Michelle

Email number 3 - Again very authentic looking in eBay livery

eBay sent this message to James Smith.
Your registered name is included to show this message originated from eBay.
eBay Buyer Protection Case ID: 15HB5231F


eBay Motors member Sarah Hudson, as the Seller, initiated a new transaction through eBay Buyer Protection program and registered James Smith, as the Buyer.
We verified all the details of this transaction and we concluded that they are accurate and the transaction is approved. Please follow our instructions to complete the transaction safely. Your vehicle purchase is protected for up to £50,000.00 or the vehicle purchase price, whichever is lower.

eBay Buyer Protection Program
Complete the transaction in 5 easy steps:

Buyer and Seller agree on the transaction terms and a selling price. Seller contacts eBay Customer Support with the transaction details;
eBay Customer Support accepts the transaction and offers purchase protection to the Buyer (if the transaction is declined, no further action is required from neither Buyer or Seller);
The Buyer receives an invoice and sends the payment to eBay Customer Support. After the payment is verified by eBay Customer Support, the Seller will initiate the shipping.
The Buyer receives the vehicle and has five (5) business days to inspect it. If it is as described and as agreed, the Buyer should accept the vehicle. If he refuses it, the Buyer must ship the vehicle back to the Seller expense;
After the inspection period is over (5 business days), the Buyer must contact eBay Customer Support with the result of the inspection. If the Buyer accepts the vehicle, the payment will be sent to the Seller within three (3) business days.

eBay Buyer Protection

Case ID: 15HB5231F

Item titled: VINTAGE 1934 MORRIS MINOR TOURER GREEN/BLACK

Item number: 261167550851

Amount Insured: £4,300.00


Seller Verified Profile
[http://imageshack.us/a/img542/515/bured20x20.gif] Registered e-mail address: [email protected]
[http://imageshack.us/a/img542/515/bured20x20.gif] Identity and Contact Information Verified.
[http://imageshack.us/a/img542/515/bured20x20.gif] Continues to meet strict Membership Criteria.
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[http://imageshack.us/a/img542/515/bured20x20.gif] Purchase Protection Coverage up to £50,000.00

eBay Buyer Protection Overview
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I hope the above can be of help to others, If there is anything else I can do please ask. Best wishes to all, James

I can confirm that the same bunch of scammers tried to pull off a similar scam with me over the past few days. I answered an Ebay Classified ad for a Land Rover 90 4 x 4 and was sent an answering email offering me the vehicle for exactly the same amount £4300 and this was then followed yesterday with an "Ebay" generated invoice for this amount with Sarah Hudson in the Seller details box with the same address in Scotland. It turns out to be nothing to do with Ebay at all but a bunch of thieves. I was asked to pay the amount into a Barclays Bank account which coincidentally appears to be on the same street in Leicester as the other person scammed by this bunch. I have the details of these transactions now and I will be bringing them to the attention of not only Ebay fraud team, but also Barclays bank and if necessary the police. It probably wont make much difference as these type of scammers probably have all the bases covered, but we cant just allow them to continue to con innocent people out of their hard earned cash.

I have a 12 year old son who is being treated for leukaemia second time around and these heartless people knew this yet still tried to take £4300 of our savings from us. They even tried to fool me with a response to the spoof report I sent to Ebay Spoof team. (It appears that I sent it to the [email protected] instead of [email protected] address and the scammers at [email protected] responded by trying to tell me it was a genuine transaction which Ebay then clarified it wasn't. What a heartless and selfish bunch of crooks.

Beware!!

Graystar could you publish the bank details here and emails with headers for IP numbers and we can ensure the account gets killed. Remove your own details please. Cheers. I am not surprised it is Barclays. Posts here show they have a dismal record over fake accounts with false names using such as ebay-xxxx which reveals obvious fraud use. They appear to need investigation themselves because they are either lax or corrupt in dealing with other peoples money.

Wecome to Scamwarners Graystar.

For those of us who've spoken to victims in person the fact that you have a child with a serious illness will only encourage them. Anything they see as a weakness or vulnerability makes you a better victim to them. If you're penniless they'll try to make you take out a loan and I've known them persuade people pay them rather than buy their medication.

The bank should take action based on your report and I say that based on my work before I retired. Money laundering is a criminal offence, and holding the account of a person known to be money laundering is a banking offence.

Glad to hear you left this cockroach disappointed.

I currently have this Sarah Hudson trying to sell me a rather amazing vehicle at a rather good price. Nothing quite matched up so luckily I didn't give any details.

Welcome, Ollie. I'm glad you recognized the scam early! If you have any information that the scammer is using that is not already included here, or email text that is not already here, please do add it so that it will show up in searches.
Let us know if you have any questions.

Graystar could you publish the bank details here and emails with headers for IP numbers and we can ensure the account gets killed. Remove your own details please. Cheers. I am not surprised it is Barclays. Posts here show they have a dismal record over fake accounts with false names using such as ebay-xxxx which reveals obvious fraud use. They appear to need investigation themselves because they are either lax or corrupt in dealing with other peoples money.

Sorry for not replying sooner, but my son has been having two weeks of chemo in hospital so it hasn't been easy to respond quickly.

The Barclays Account Details used in this scam to send the £4300 to are as follows (extracted from the Bogus "Ebay" Invoice):

Benificiary
C Nelu

Sort Code

20 29 41

Account Number

93817512

I took all the details to my local Barclays Bank branch and they seemed genuinely interested in sorting things out with the help[ of the Barclays Fraud Team. However I have heard nothing back from them despite giving them my contact details.

I dont know how to post the emails received from these scammers. Perhaps someone can advise me how to do this.

Thank you

Gray

Bank Details Noted - Michelle

I would go as far as to say that it would be both negligent and irresponsible if the bank didn't pay attention to your report Graystar. It is a legal responsibility and a duty of care they owe to the government, their shareholders and those harmed by the criminal activities of their account holders.

I wouldn't expect them to advise you of their actions or response to your report, so you may hear nothing, but sloppy administration of money laundering regulations is a banking sin with potentially horrific repercussions for any banks found to be failing their duty.

Even an innocent mule should never have their account appear twice on these forums, and if they do, there is one certain and obvious way to protect the public, and banks have the authority and means to do it.

I too was nearly caught out. Smelt a rat when no feedback score was visible on invoice and also no request for login to my ebay. Contacted ebay to be told they had no knowledge of the item and that they do not offer buyer protection on vehicles. Thankfully I found out before it was too late.