Bought something on ebay.com.

I get an email from mikedean35@gmail.com to the email address registered on ebay, stating that the payment must be processed outside paypal as ebay has informed him that there's a problem with using his paypal account.
Initially, I trusted this sender because the email came to my official ebay-registered address, which is normally
private (obviously, ebay has a hole somewhere).

Then I get another email from this guy saying that ebay tells him that just one time, they'll offer free protection for this transaction, and that ebay will directly email me with the "steps" to follow. He asked for my address & name so that he can move the processing forward. It felt fishy, but I sent the shipping address anyway.

I get an email from "ebay@safety-trust.com" that looks like an authentic ebay email.. asking me to transfer money to
a guy in Romania!!. (ADRIAN UTA, Street Cocorilor, Rm Valcea 1000, Romania) who is an "ebay agent".
The requested payment method was WESTERN UNION. This made it
fairly obvious that a scam was in progress.

I've reported mikedean35@gmail.com to google.
I wonder if safety-trust.com should be reported, or it was just a random domain name the scamster is abusing.
I don't know how to report the romanian address & name.

Anyway, thought I'd let people know so they don't get bitten by such a scam.

Tags: adrian uta, ebay, fraud, mikedean35, scam, western union
Current Mood: annoyed