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Buyer Beware - Hacked eBay Accounts - Drako - 05-19-2020
Last night I thought I found an unbelievable deal on a refurbished GTX 1080 Ti. It was listed as $49.99. If you're not tech savvy, new 1080 Ti's go for around $1000. I checked thoroughly to make sure I wasn't getting scammed. What I didn't know at the time was the account was probably cracked. I figured this out because I still have no shipping notice, and I found out the description and images were copied from a legitimate seller.
There are now more listings with the same problems. I'm assuming it's one person behind this. A scam on a scale like this is a federal offense. And unless this person knows how to hide, he/she will get what's coming.
Gonna get a refund and look for another card. If it's too good to be true, it probably is.
RE: Buyer Beware - Hacked eBay Accounts - mothered - 05-19-2020
I'd assume the seller would have various accounts up and running.
Thanks for the heads-up.
RE: Buyer Beware - Hacked eBay Accounts - Uzinero - 06-20-2020
>I found a 1080 Ti for $50
>I checked thoroughly to make sure I wasn't being scammed
By Allah if you imply again there's any such thing as due diligence on something that blatant I will beat you with my shoe mashallah.
This is an incredibly blatant and somewhat common scam with cracked eBay/PayPal accounts to make normies dumbasses chance that "Hey maybe this fucking stupid deal is actually real!" And get a few k of sales in a day, cash it all out by whatever means necessary as best you can until eBay/PayPal notice and close the account and then the fake seller just hops on their way sometimes having cleared a few k in one run or two, eBay instantly cancels the orders and issues refunds to all the buyers and a fake PayPal goes negative and never gets signed into again leaving PayPal as the only ones eating a loss.