Steps to Thwart the Ebay PayPal Quickspin Payment Turn Around Scam

I will be adding rules here that you can cut and paste into your ebay auctions to prevent being scammed by international Ebay / PayPal scammers.  You should read the previous articles if you have not yet to understand this 3rd installment

Article 1:   http://www.amarketplaceofideas.com/ebay-paypal-quick-spin-international-payment-turn-around-scam.htm

Article 2:   ebay appears to sweep fraud under the rug.

 

All buyers outside of the USA must meet the following requires to bid: 

1- You must have been a member of eBay for more than 1 year and have transactions in your feedback profile dating back one year.

2- Your feedback profile must meet one of the following conditions

    * 25 points feedback at 100%

    * 50 points feedback at 98% or better

3- If you do not meet conditions 1 or 2 I will not accept PayPal in payment

4- If you have 100 feedback points or less then the maximum package value shipped will be limited to XXX USD amount.

 

Quick spin scammers eventually get their current account shut down by ebay.  The course of events goes as follows.

1- make a new ebay account Username / profile : you can use the same NAME and ADDRESS you did before. As shown in a previous article 

Dmitriy Kovalivnich
49-17 Zelinskogo st.
Mariupol, Donetsk 87556 Ukraine          ……was used 3 times!! Ebay just lets this guy keep registering.

2- Quickly buy 10 – 30 items. Tends to be small items like memory because people ship them quickly because they are easy to pack and small packages do not get as much attention in customs.

3- Pay using PayPal.

4- As far as I have been told the time window the scammer has to work with is 1 month. He must buy as much as possible before the one month is up.  If he waits more than one month PayPal will not refund his payment.  Thus at the end of 1 month he will generally start reversing PayPal payments.  At this point many times we goofy americans may have already thought it was safe to leave feedback.  This is why all feedback should not be placed till a minimum of 6 weeks after receiving payment.

5- Once the scammer reverses enough payments Ebay / PayPal axis will shut the profile down.  ( But not the Name / Address !!!! )  Thus the scammer can only usually get a profile with 20 ish points.  Much longer and he will either get shut down or a negative feedback that says WATCH OUT, HE’S A SCAMMER.   This is why if a user shows any signs of bad traits I put them through the wringer.  I’d rather take the possible bad feedback than give them a single dime ! 

 

It turns out that if you specify WIRE TRANSFER or concealed cash eBay will cancel your listing.   Thus you must not state that those are the only thing you will accept. However when they inevitably email you is the time to tell the potential buyer that you will only accept these.

I have a set of behaviors that I can’t put in an article like this as it will educate the scammers on how to be better con men.  However I am willing to consult anyone who would email me. I still will not tell why I make any decisions but if you provide me with the answers to all my questions I will be able to access your risk accurately.