Not the sharpest knife in the drawer...

[2tmike]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1976-ALFA-RO ... Sw5HZekJWg

really????

[h20hamelan]

£6k
Think its registered as such?

[2tmike]

He/she's a scam artist.....just look at the 'see other items' tab of stuff listed
It takes ebay a while to take these down so if you're bored just bid a few up to £50k ....)

[S3FHC]

I have reported this to eBay as it looks very suspicious (2 x identical Lancia listings for example)

[elanfan1]

Must have been a fair bit of work to find photos and write 700+ scam listings.

[512BB]

James6m is not a scam artist. Look at his feedback, he hasn't suddenly morphed into a wrongun over night. His account has been taken over by a scammer who has hacked his account.

If you send a question to him on anything that he has for sale, in a few weeks !!!!!!! the wankers at ebay will send you a message telling you that the account has been hacked and that they are in the process of returning the account to the rightful owner and not to send any money. Fat chance.

Donkeys years ago I had one of those Alfas. It turned out to be a Porche Targa Funny that.

Make sure your passwords are water tight.

Leslie

[JonB]

One of the easy ways to spot a scam listing on eBay is the existence of an image with written instructions to contact the seller via email. They do this because the eBay listing submission process will disallow the listing if it detects any contact details in the description. It's clever, but it cannot interpret the image with the writing on. Yeah, I know, they should build in OCR...

So, also, it'll have a low Buy It Now price (again, in the image) that is too good to be true.

As to the volume of these ads, well, the scammer, having taken control of an innocent eBayer's account, will have a script (program) that logs onto eBay and spits out all these listings. There is no way some bloke is entering all of them manually. Writing software like this is pretty trivial to do. You can probably buy it from other online crims.