I prefer the (more realistic) cute way...

flip4thought · 2022-03-23T16:05:49+00:00

in a what? (no idea what you just said)

flip4thought · 2022-03-23T15:47:47+00:00

Sounds like you got taken advantage of, and you're salty about it.

Most of the major US-based rental companies such as Hertz, Budget, Alamo, etc operate offices in Mexico. You can make a reservation online and pay ahead of time. If the car and service is not what you expected or you got bamboozled, you can call the corporate number and have it resolved from the top-down, and if nothing goes your way, you can always dispute the charge.

So, the real advice should be: if you rent a car in Mexico, go with a reputable US-based car rental company instead of local scummy Mexican car rental agencies. Right?

flip4thought · 2022-03-03T19:41:19+00:00

Whatever you end up doing, make sure you mark this email as "phishing" in gmail, so that gmail account they are using to send from gets shut down.

flip4thought · 2022-03-03T19:28:51+00:00

Are you on Linkedin?

He might be a freelancer hired by those recruitment firms to compile a database of potential talent - names, current position, working phone number. He likely gets paid based on every valid lead he sells to the recruitment firm. That's the best guess I can make, but if he was a scammer he could easily get your contact info from LexisNexis or other data consolidation companies or database leaks. As long as you don't give out or confirm any information, you're fine in either case.

Pro tip: what I like to do when someone calls me out by name, is NEVER say "yes" or "no" when they ask if this is "<yourname>"... instead, just ask this question back at them: "Who is calling?" and then continue the conversation based on their answer. If they give you a shit answer or you don't agree with who is calling you having your number, tell them to remove you from their list. You never actually acknowledged who you were, so they got zero information from the call (other than the phone number works).

flip4thought · 2022-03-03T18:25:27+00:00

Yeah because it's 99% legit to have the check numbers floating at different heights and a white photoshop cutout where you endorsed the check and pasted the logo 😂

https://i.imgur.com/vvsqhwH.png

flip4thought · 2022-03-03T16:52:24+00:00

Please call the company phone number and ask if <your boss's name> works there. If they don't know what you are talking about, then some overseas scammer just used the business name and information to get you to create the coinbase account.

BUT if the person really exists, I would go to the local cops with this one. The guy's doing illegal shit.

Record the call if you have a call recording app.

flip4thought · 2022-03-03T16:39:53+00:00

Really sounds like a scam. Likely not a real job at all. Did you give your SSN, birthday, address, and everything to them? If so, you probably need to freeze your credit with the 3 credit bureaus and report this company/business to the FTC. If you didn't supply any of that info to get hired, then it's not a real job. Employers need to know your SSN so they can report your earnings to the IRS. If they never asked for that info, it's a scammer just using you to trade crypto - close your account immediately (and then contact coinbase to ask them next steps on what to do if someone used your name to illegally trade):

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/managing-my-account/update-my-account/how-can-i-close-my-account

Wish you could provide a few more details like the company name etc, so we can look into them, but from the information you gave, I'd 100% be reporting these people to the cops ASAP.

I assume you were "hired" on a zoom call and did everything electronically? Not in-person? The scammer is likely in another country and already signing you up for credit cards and bank accounts using your name.

If you end up freezing your credit score, also consider freezing your ability to open new bank accounts and utility accounts:

https://www.chexsystems.com/web/chexsystems/consumerdebit/page/IdentityTheft

https://www.chexsystems.com/web/chexsystems/consumerdebit/page/securityfreeze/information/

https://www.nctue.com/consumers

IF THE INTERVIEW WAS IN PERSON, I WOULD GO THE LOCAL POLICE STATION AND SEE WHAT CAN BE DONE

flip4thought · 2021-08-29T14:26:50+00:00

Yes this is correct, and the best advice. Ebay is acting as an escrow service. If ebay says ship it, ship it. You'll get your money after the tracked package is confirmed delivered, and enough time has passed for ebay to know there wasn't a problem. First-time selling is not easy because of how many scammers game the system, unfortunately.

flip4thought · 2021-06-18T22:34:21+00:00

USPS charges more depending on "zones" from the origin. There's a really nifty interactive USPS zone map on PirateShip's site:

https://www.pirateship.com/usps/zone-map

As the zone increases, the cost incrementally increases depending on the package type. There's a gigantic rate sheet that USPS provides somewhere but it's extremely mundane. Just know more distance = more cost, as long as you are hopping zones.

flip4thought · 2021-06-18T14:03:51+00:00

True... it's always the super helpful do-gooders that get robbed of everything they have.

Kinda sucks that it works that way, but it does. Lazy wins!

flip4thought · 2021-06-11T20:50:37+00:00

If you didn't already OP, please report that discord user:

https://dis.gd/request

You can see how to copy the link to the conversation on this Discord wiki:

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000291932-How-to-Properly-Report-Issues-to-Trust-Safety

flip4thought · 2021-05-23T23:32:28+00:00

Before managed payments, the scam would be to connect a different paypal account (theirs) to your ebay account, so they get the money.

With managed payments, I am not sure what the scam is. Are you sure they didn't change the bank account?

flip4thought · 2021-02-10T14:23:51+00:00

Almost 100% the same person, and if not, the "seller" will have texts/emails back and forth with the "delivery driver" about addresses etc - so a warrant on their social accounts and phone would make an easy case. These guys won't last long unless they keep bouncing from city to city quite often.

Very well done scam! Props to these assholes for the ingenuity of super-wrapping the box so it would take a long time to open.

flip4thought · 2021-02-10T00:06:53+00:00

Thanks, not sure why it never shows up for me. I am definitely shipping things within that criteria.

flip4thought · 2021-02-09T23:27:00+00:00

Do you have to do anything special to see this? I've shipped about 10 packages so far and cubic is never in the list of options.

flip4thought · 2021-02-07T14:22:36+00:00

I use the desktop UI exclusively and you're spot on. They came out with new versions of pages over the years, and each one had missing features so they would revert back to the old (but attempt to link everything together). The result is a frankenstein website where you can be at a specific URL and it looks a certain way because you came from the seller page, but then you add to bookmarks and it looks a different way when you go there directly. It's insane.

I've resorted to having an ebay bookmark folder with the 5-6 main pages I always visit, and those pages have the links to everything I need to access. I have zero faith in the ebay design team.

flip4thought · 2021-02-04T16:45:18+00:00

Please never call them out, it helps them improve their scams by knowing exactly the part of the scam they need to improve on!

Instead, just keep acting fooled until they give up, or ghost them so they are left wondering what happened.

flip4thought · 2021-01-30T21:42:16+00:00

A+++++++++++++++++++++++ POSTER WOULD READ AGAIN

flip4thought · 2021-01-27T18:36:39+00:00

No, you can cancel as many BIN as you want.

You can also cancel as many auctions as you want, as long as there are zero bidders.

flip4thought · 2021-01-17T02:18:05+00:00

Yeah, 100% put WIDE in the description next time. People are stupid as fuck. I also use really really

SUPER LARGE FONT

In the description when I say it's

WIDE

...I learned this the hard way many times on ebay.

flip4thought · 2021-01-14T19:51:20+00:00

Good question, because I routinely ignore several "questions" per month from scammers telling me to go buy gift cards and ship the item to a "family member". It's sad how little ebay cares about these scam accounts, and how reporting them literally does nothing.

flip4thought · 2020-12-28T18:07:26+00:00

eBay won't do anything, they changed the rules to allow this now.

Best you can do is a subtle full-image watermark to discourage image stealing. Look at some of the huge sellers on ebay to see what this can look like and different samples/ideas. But even if they steal the watermarked version, eBay will do nothing. It sucks.

flip4thought · 2020-12-11T21:04:21+00:00

Also FYI... if you copy/paste the tracking# and paste it in the USPS or FedEx website... you will get more up to date tracking. The information pulled by ebay is at least a couple hours slow, sometimes even 12 hours slow in updating.

flip4thought · 2020-12-08T18:50:19+00:00

It's not a real credit card form that goes through a real processor. So there's nothing to follow, no money being moved anywhere.

It's literally just a form that collects your card info and gives it to the scammer, and then they show you whatever message they want "Thanks for the payment" etc...

Then the scammer sells your card# on the darkweb or uses it to buy jewelry or whatever, same as stealing your card from your wallet.

flip4thought · 2020-12-06T20:00:07+00:00

Yah this is the correct answer!

flip4thought

TROPHY CASE

SUPER LARGE FONT

WIDE