That made me smile So did that :-D

That would use up rather a lot of space here as I have several thousand docs stored I need details of the crime first. Then I can post just one - the matching one. I need the eBay Item Number, approximate date of listing, and the time/date of the money transfer. Who the money was sent to is not relevant, it's the date and time that matters.

I am interested in taking eBay to court for breaking the law. The law/laws in this case are those detailed in The Fraud Act 2006 : - legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/35/contents For example :- 4 : Fraud by abuse of position (1)A person is in breach of this section if he— (a)occupies a position in which he is expected to safeguard, or not to act against, the financial interests of another person, (b)dishonestly abuses that position, and ©intends, by means of the abuse of that position— (i)to make a gain for himself or another, or (ii)to cause loss to another or to expose another to a risk of loss. (2)A person may be regarded as having abused his position even though his conduct consisted of an omission rather than an act. I am not a victim of fraud personally, but I know a lot of people who have been. I am a [problem]buster on eBay and my primary objective is to get fraudulent listings removed from eBay as quickly as possible. Over the last ten months I have found and reported nearly 7,000 separate and unique fraud attempts (mainly the work of an organised crime syndicate based in Romania and run by Nicolae Popescu). On the one hand, I protect people from falling victim to [problem]s by getting the listings deleted; in this way a high percentage of the [problem] attempts fail. But inevitably some of the attempts will be successful, and when they are, they can cause serious financial harm. Most of the [problem]s involve vehicles of some kind - cars, vans, campervans, tractors, diggers, motorbikes and so on - anything with wheels basically. Sometimes boats, sometimes agricultural machinery and small/heavy plant. The average loss for a victim is typically £7000. A few days ago the BBC ran a short feature on The One Show and Inside Out with the aim of drawing attention to the risks of buying vehicles online. Their own story mainly featured Nigerian fraudsters operating out of Norway (which was a new combination to me!) but the basic concept was very familiar; the bank was usually a branch of Barclays in the UK where the 'buyer' was told to transfer funds for 'safe keeping' while the vehicle is delivered and inspected. I am more than familiar with the money transfer methodology, having carried out numerous '[problem]-baiting' stings in order to report mule accounts to the bank, the police or the inappropriately named ActionFraud. But the TV feature had nothing new to say other than the basic mantra "touch the metal first" - never pay anything until you have seen and touched the vehicle in the flesh. What the programme only hinted it rather than spelt out loud and clear was that once you've been [problem]med like this (responding to ads on eBay, AutoTrader etc etc) there is NO RECOURSE. You have lost your money, end of story. The bank won't accept responsibility, the police will just hold up their hands, and companies like eBay will say something like "You should have read the small print". But I believe there IS a way of getting stolen money back. I report [problem]s to eBay all day and every day, and I post the details on my Facebook page. It is my belief that if I report a [problem] eBay listing at, for example, 3pm on 19th February 2014, then from that moment onwards eBay are aware of it. They are aware that there is an attempt to commit fraud on their own website. Now, the Fraud Act 2006 is pretty unambiguous in its interpretation of a scenario such as this - that eBay will be guilty of "Fraud by Abuse of Position" because (and I quote) eBay "occupies a position in which [it] is expected to safeguard, or not to act against, the financial interests of another person". I believe the law is clear and not in need of any adaptation to cope with these [problem]s. The problem is simply that there is almost no ENFORCEMENT of the law. On average, eBay take about 6 hours to remove a [problem] listing from the time that it is reported. In my view that is much too long, and often [problem]s are not removed for several days. This, I contend, is FRAUD BY ABUSE OF POSITION. According to the BBC, "thousands of people fall victim to online fraud each year". I have no data to offer anything more accurate with regard to online fraud in general, but as far as eBay is concerned (one of the biggest single hot-spots of fraud) I have evidence in the form of saved web-pages that demonstrate a very intense and concentrated programme of fraud on eBay UK. I have several thousand saved documents, and, just as importantly, I have the exact dates and times of each Fraud Report. Nearly 7,000 as of today's date. So if a victim approaches me with a tale of woe involving a [problem] on eBay, there's a good chance that I saw it before they did, and more to the point I REPORTED IT before they even saw it. And that is where I believe eBay would or should be found culpable. Fraud by abuse of position, fraud by failing to safeguard the financial interests of another person. The collective value of all the vehicle [problem]s on eBay alone is about £100 million a year; that is to say, if every listing found one victim, that's how much would be stolen. Of course in reality most [problem]s fail, but even if the figure is as high as 99% (which I doubt) that still leaves £1 million stolen from unsuspecting and admittedly gullible victims. I think this is a very conservative estimate. I would like anyone who knows anyone who has fallen victim to a vehicle [problem] on eBay since April 2013 to post on this thread, as I *might* have valuable evidence that will prove that eBay were made aware of a [problem] before the [problem] actually took place - and therefore could have prevented it.