Ebay Scam!

I am a member of Ebay and so far I haven't had an problems with it. But I recently became aware of someone else's experience that really should "raise a warning flag" when it happens.

A bidder put in a bid for a certain, specific item but lost the bid to a higher bidder - which of course can happen.

BUT the bidder then received an email from the person that placed the item (or so they said they were the person that placed the item) asking him if he still wanted the item. Of course the bidder said yes and plans were made to get the information about payment and shipping. Then the bidded gets a second email from someone who wanted to give them different information about where to send the payment. (The second email came with the information that now the item was available at a lower price.) This raised a "warning flag" with the bidder and he decided that he no longer wanted the item.

Unfortunately the bidder has been receiving email after email about the item and whether or not they still want it or not - which is becoming quite a nuisance.

Now there are some things that I could say here about how this was done but I don't want to give anyone any ideas on how they can do the same thing.

Why Do People Spam?

Why do people spam?

They want to get their message across to as many people as possible! I'm at a message board now that has to do with people having problems with there blogs and there are a lot of spam messages - particularly one from some kind of escort service located outside the United States.

I'm assuming that they are spamming this particular message board because the message board has a lot of traffic so that means that their spam messages about their escort servie / dating service has the potential to be seen by a lot of people.

You may laugh or be generally irritated by these tactics but the fact of the matter remains that the more number of people that read the spam the more the potential of someone actually wanting to find out more about it! It's a "numbers" thing!