Ebay scam weirdness

This auction is obviously too good to be true:
150330384725

Oddly, tho, when you view it, although the auction number in the URL
is 150330384725, the one displayed on the page is 1018421331015.
Also, the end time seems to have been hacked.

I emailed the seller on , and he was obviously keen
to get some money from me asap. I'm not sure how offensive to be in
my reply,

 

Looks fine to me.

It's just down the road from here, too.

 

I saw something like that on ebay a few years ago. If you refresh the page,
the auction number shows as 150330384725, then changes to 1018421331015.
Also the number in bidder status has an extra 5 on the end.

It's pretty obvious the account has been hacked.

 

I should have added that it's a ripped copy of 110356149082, that
completed on Monday.

It's not, you know

 

Sure. Prolly coincidence, but when I used the 'report this listing'
page, it wouldn't submit. I eventually reported it via the safety
centre.

The scammer has ended the listing now. Pity - I prolly shouldn't have
alerted him.

 

Ahhhh, it went Pete Tong when I re-loaded it.

On first look it all appeared to be fine.

 

Neither number shows in a search now; I guess eBay (over?)reacted
to your report.

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Ebay appear to have taken it down now.

He was using a disposable email address (preserved in posterity here:
), which I imagine he won't be daft enough to do
again, so I don't see anyway that he could be tracked down.

 

In this case, I'm completely convinced it was a scam, and eBay would
have been right to remove it.

 

What was it?

 

I saw a similar thing a few years back - the user embedded javascript
in their auction description that did some substitution using
getelelementbyid trickery (IIRC) and displayed someone elses high
feedback score as theirs well as some other details. Very neat.

 

Very sophisticated, as ebay scams go:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/08/ebay_scam_wizardy/

 

The NoScript plugin for FF is quite handy, it would appear. It's only
once in a very odd while it pops up a warning, but it's there in
background doing its job.