NCAAbbs

In the wake of the Wii and PS3, scammers ran rampant on eBay. There were hundreds of daily auctions for Wii receipts, boxes, and email addresses. Gullible people not reading the auctions before bidding paid hundreds for these items, and PayPal refused to assist the buyer most of the time. With the release of the iPhone, the same thing is starting to appear. Already there are a dozen or so people trying to sell "iPhone email addresses". They claim these email addresses will assist in future iPhone sales. This auction even has a bid for $50 USD. The sad thing is the email addresses are so lame they aren't even worth a cent. "apple.iphone.outlet@gmail.com". Give me a break.

Along with email addresses, people are also squatting domains and selling them on eBay in bulk. Some of bids in upwards of $40 USD. There isn't even a remotely decent name for sale. For instance the best one is iPhonesDirect.com, which is nothing special.

Even the original iPhone.com domain created in 1995 at GoDaddy is trying to cash in on Apple's announcement. Their original website has been down ever since the release. Originally claiming high traffic, they've now thrown up a few advertisements for web hosting, and an anti virus. iPhone.org resgistered by Apple of course points to the Apple's iPhone page.

However my absolute favorite scam on eBay is the people selling "iPhone pre-orders". Yes, they claim they can get their hands on an iPhone the day of release. What gets me is the auction actually has bids. $1,110.00 with $25 shipping worth of bids to be exact. Similar auctions are selling for hundreds, but bound to hit one thousand eventually.

KState1125 Wrote:In the wake of the Wii and PS3, scammers ran rampant on eBay. There were hundreds of daily auctions for Wii receipts, boxes, and email addresses. Gullible people not reading the auctions before bidding paid hundreds for these items, and PayPal refused to assist the buyer most of the time. With the release of the iPhone, the same thing is starting to appear. Already there are a dozen or so people trying to sell "iPhone email addresses". They claim these email addresses will assist in future iPhone sales. This auction even has a bid for $50 USD. The sad thing is the email addresses are so lame they aren't even worth a cent. "apple.iphone.outlet@gmail.com". Give me a break.

Along with email addresses, people are also squatting domains and selling them on eBay in bulk. Some of bids in upwards of $40 USD. There isn't even a remotely decent name for sale. For instance the best one is iPhonesDirect.com, which is nothing special.

Even the original iPhone.com domain created in 1995 at GoDaddy is trying to cash in on Apple's announcement. Their original website has been down ever since the release. Originally claiming high traffic, they've now thrown up a few advertisements for web hosting, and an anti virus. iPhone.org resgistered by Apple of course points to the Apple's iPhone page.

However my absolute favorite scam on eBay is the people selling "iPhone pre-orders". Yes, they claim they can get their hands on an iPhone the day of release. What gets me is the auction actually has bids. $1,110.00 with $25 shipping worth of bids to be exact. Similar auctions are selling for hundreds, but bound to hit one thousand eventually.

Actually Apple doesn't own the iPhone moniker and they are being sued for it.

i'm totally getting it, as soon as i can.