And The Funds, Good Sir, Will Henceforth Be Transferred To Your Account When The King's Estate Is Distributed To The Heirs

We here at the Bloggy Blog have long since abandoned the sniping and random S+H of eBay for the more legit pastures of Amazon Marketplace, but that hasn't stopped scammers from contacting us with time-sensitive offers to buy items we have lost bids on:

	from		"lingularii @ gmail. com"		hide details	Jan 16 (15 hours ago)
	reply-to			lingularii@gmail.com
	to			djanes1@gmail.com
	date			Jan 16, 2008 8:16 PM
	subject			Question from eBay member about Item number (310014222091)
	mailed-by			jetta.cgnhost.net

Dear djanes1,

I have for sale: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310014222091 My price is negociable. If you are interested just give me a fast reply on this email address and you will find all the info that you want. Please contact me as soon as possible for more details directly at lingularii@gmail.com !

Thanks for your time !!

And that is how the script goes. Essentially, the scammer looks at lists of auction losers, and assumes their email follows the script of ebaySN@gmail.com, ebaySN@yahoo.com, etc, and sends something like this. Of course, responding with a 'no' just makes more of these things show up. An attempt to negotiate the price down to 52 cents led to a request for our name and address. This scam would be more believable if our Gmail account name was the same as our eBay account, so if yours is, be aware.

UPDATE: They will stop emailing you if you play with them a bit.