ScamBusters New Zealand

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When you place your car for auction with Turners, you sign an agreement giving them permission to sell the vehicle on your behalf. I'm not sure if this is standard practice? I sold my last car at auction with Turners. The entire transaction was done over the phone, and nothing was signed. They sent...

http://www.wheelndeal.co.nz is now a cool garage sale, Market website. Very cool. Very cool? Seriously? There's 7 Market listings ... well 10, but one is listed 4 times. And there's 2 garage sales showing on the Google Map feed (which incidently is not working well in Firefox), one of which is loca...

User name as "Bingo" in the profile, and with four cameras listed the majority of photos are stock. Q: can I see another picture? moneymaker10 (47 ) 11:54 pm, Sun 28 Aug A: yes the watch looks different then to the one displayed because it limited edition i couldn't find a picture of it anywhere i t...

A sticky thread from TM staffer Robyn on how to recognise scammers:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/Mess ... 7&topic=10" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Wow ... times have changed! Well done TM.

Some tips for you ... Noticed that visitor counters are much higher, than for the same items on TM. Be aware that when items are relisted, the counters are not reset. there is no option to check buyer's feedback or profile From the Orders tab, click into the sold listing. There will be a header outl...

And TM appear to have a new person heading Trust & Safety. Trade Me trust and safety head Jon Duffy said users found selling unsafe or untested goods would be warned or banned from the site. "We don't want Trade Me to be seen as the place to sell dodgy electrical goods." http://www.stuff.co.nz/nati...

Now I understand - thanks Foggy.

And apologies to bloman for highjacking your thread. My bad.

From a selection of today's spam ... Delivered-To: <my emaiil - removed> Received: by 10.220.187.198 with SMTP id cx6cs184353vcb; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:36:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.66.17 with SMTP id g17mr393111yhd.106.1308126978550; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 01:36:18 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <taramed...

Foggyone wrote: 1. Gmail does not include the senders IP address, making it impossible for you to ascertain the whereabouts of the sender.

Say what? You can pull headers off Gmail. Am I missing something?

Googlybear wrote:1 - Would it be safe to presume that Telecom would be keeping an eye on this.

They could rename it "FerritMe"

Lets hope that Sella don't also migrate the significant number of scams that live on the T&E site at any one time.

BargainsDirect (iWorld) .. now closed. (Not disabled) http://www.trademe.co.nz/stores/iworld" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Discussion thread on the TM message board: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.aspx?id=720038&p=2&topic=10" onclick="window.open(this.href)...

From the looks of it, it's a spreadsheet. Visit our website http://acornsoftware.weebly.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; for more information and screenshots There's contact details on the website, which is a big TM no no, and the product is being sent out in digital form - also ag...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/Soft ... 481850.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I can spot at least three ...