Woman charged in alleged eBay scam

An Ohio woman will be extradited to York County after allegedly stealing $8,500 from a Spring Grove man who purchased but never received a car she advertised on eBay.

[David]

Send money to an unknown for an unseen item and what can you expect? Honesty? Not anymore.

[Spendaholics]

Just wait, in this economy it will get nothing but worse now!!!

[Chris]

It's ashame that people sit at the computer all day just pondering up how they can scam someone, instead of just being honest and Earning a living. I have purchased a vehicle off of ebay, but picked it up and drove it home.

[Chris]

Nichole made the victims beleive that they were purchasing the car through ebay. The listing had magically disappeared, buyer contacted seller and seller said they ended it early because they had a buyer outside of ebay, but the buyer couldn't come up with the money and so he/she would sell it to Chad for 8,500. because he needs the $ since he's a soldier in Iraq and his dad died and it was his dad's car that then was given to him. Reason I say HE is because Nichole also led the victims to beleive that her/his name was Reid Hudson and gave them Reid Hudsons name address and phone #.
Nichole led the victims to beleive that there is an ebay motors account that the $ is wired to the buyer receives the car contacts ebay and at that point ebay releses the $ to the seller. Totally Not True!!!!!

[Chris]

David wrote:

Send money to an unknown for an unseen item and what can you expect? Honesty? Not anymore.

Nichole led them to beleive they were sending the $ to ebay then ebay would release the funds to her after the car was inspected by the buyer.They didn't realize that the $ was going directly into her personal account.(which she was portraying herself as a soldier in Iraq named Reid Hudson) I know the newspaper article doesn't say that, but the court docs do.

[Reality Check]

I have used EBay since its inception for purchases, and have had only two issues, both of which were handled with ease by their PayPal service.

Check seller ratings, feedback, how many transactions they've had, are they mainly a seller or a buyer, and such. It's pretty easy. You just have to use some common sense in who you purchase from, which can be asking a lot of some people nowadays.

[Spendaholics]

Reality Check wrote:

I have used EBay since its inception for purchases, and have had only two issues, both of which were handled with ease by their PayPal service.
Check seller ratings, feedback, how many transactions they've had, are they mainly a seller or a buyer, and such. It's pretty easy. You just have to use some common sense in who you purchase from, which can be asking a lot of some people nowadays.

Actually one of the biggest scams every pulled on ebay a few years ago was a seller from Europe who had well over 1000+ feedbacks but decided to take a get rich scheme to top it all off. He sold BMW cars, several of them within about a 60 day period, came to find out that the same thing happened. He set up a secondary account that was suppose to be a 'safe haven' for your money while the car was shipped. When you received said car, you then notified the company 'holding' the money and it would be released to the said 'seller'. The sorry truth was that the dummy holding company was set up by the seller and once your money was deposited and the first cars didn't show up after the 60 shipping notice, it took them another two months to figure it all out and "Presto", seller gone..........To answer a question or comment above, for years eBay had a service where your money was wired to an account held by ebay and released to seller when the buyer emailed ebay to say the transaction was good. eBay is no longer in the process of appeasing their sellers, so they dropped this service to promote PayPal, which is yet another scam story in itself (mostly for sellers that is).

[Just_Me]

Reality Check wrote:

I have used EBay since its inception for purchases, and have had only two issues, both of which were handled with ease by their PayPal service.
Check seller ratings, feedback, how many transactions they've had, are they mainly a seller or a buyer, and such. It's pretty easy. You just have to use some common sense in who you purchase from, which can be asking a lot of some people nowadays.

This is true. Most people who get scammed on eBay (or PayPal) might want to reconsider their use of the services. If they can't pick up on potential scams, they're only hurting themselves. There are plenty of tutorials on eBay about spotting scams. To be safe, read them....

I was a member of eBay when auction numbers were only five digits long. My membership to PayPal precedes eBay's ownership, all the way back to the former part owner/founder called x.com (anybody remember that)? I haven't had any problems using either PayPal or eBay. Sure, situations occurred, and then they were resolved by the appropriate service (usually PayPal on payment issues). I learn from that issue and move on.

Word of advice for PayPal users, if you use your checking account number to pay for goods, try using your VISA/MC debit card attached to it instead. Here's why. When you pay through PayPal using checking transfer, the payment gets paid immediately. When you use your VISA/MC debit card, the payment gets paid immediately. After all, they're usually drawn from the same account. However, if you need to pull some weight around on a seller that stiffed you, PayPal cannot guarantee they can get your money back when using checking account transfer. If you used your debit card, your bank can help you reverse the charges because it was handled as a credit card transaction. PayPal has no choice but to refund your money (minus any amount that you might be liable for, in most cases,$50). The problem is, PayPal makes you click around to change the default payment source during a payment session, overriding the checking account transfer. They're just protecting their interests by discouraging that action, I suppose. I just do what I need to do and make sure the payment is done via VISA/MC on my debit card, even if it's a few extra steps.

[Chris]

Reality Check wrote:

I have used EBay since its inception for purchases, and have had only two issues, both of which were handled with ease by their PayPal service.
Check seller ratings, feedback, how many transactions they've had, are they mainly a seller or a buyer, and such. It's pretty easy. You just have to use some common sense in who you purchase from, which can be asking a lot of some people nowadays.

Uhhh, just to let you know, possibly you don't have all the info, because this gal was stealing other peoples ebay accounts, which had excellent feedbacks, so that really would not have been a red flag or have anything to do with commen sense.

[Reality Check]

Then that would be EBay's fault for allowing someone to breach their security. Common sense would have told you that.

[Chris]

Reality Check wrote:

Then that would be EBay's fault for allowing someone to breach their security. Common sense would have told you that.

I do agree that ebay is somewhat responsible for the scamming that goes on, on ebay. The weasel their way out of everything, so that they take no responsibility. Unless you have millions of $ to sue them you can just forget about arguing with them. This is happening thousands of times a day.

[lost in ohio]

Chris wrote:

<quoted text>Nichole led them to beleive they were sending the $ to ebay then ebay would release the funds to her after the car was inspected by the buyer.They didn't realize that the $ was going directly into her personal account.(which she was portraying herself as a soldier in Iraq named Reid Hudson) I know the newspaper article doesn't say that, but the court docs do.

the family of the nichole has searched for info on all of this but cant seem to find if u can let us know where to look for the online courts docc, please do we are only getting bits and pieces of info and we need the truth as well as everyone else i had no idea of any alias names used until i found this web site and im now trying to find out about maybe charges in new jersey we r not mad at the victims of all this yes she has done wrong and she does need to pay for what she has done if u can help me find these court doc ,i so very much thank you

[lost in ohio]

CAN ANYONE WITH INFO ON THIS CASE WITH NICHOLE EBAY SCAM PLEASE WHAT COURT AND WHERE TO FIND THE COURT DOCCUMENTS? PLEASE WE HAVE VERY LITTLE INFO AND NEED TO NO WHATS GOING ON WITH OUR DAUGHTER ,SISTER AND THE MOTHER OF 4KIDS AND WELL THE NEWSPAER AT THIS TIME KNOWS A LITTLE MORE THAN WE DO SO IF SOME 1 CAN HELP PLEASE DO SO WE WANT THIS ALL OUT IN THE OPEN AS WELL AND THE TRUTH AND JUSTICE TO BE SERVED THANK NICHOLE LOST FAMILY

[Chris]

lost in ohio wrote:

CAN ANYONE WITH INFO ON THIS CASE WITH NICHOLE EBAY SCAM PLEASE WHAT COURT AND WHERE TO FIND THE COURT DOCCUMENTS? PLEASE WE HAVE VERY LITTLE INFO AND NEED TO NO WHATS GOING ON WITH OUR DAUGHTER ,SISTER AND THE MOTHER OF 4KIDS AND WELL THE NEWSPAER AT THIS TIME KNOWS A LITTLE MORE THAN WE DO SO IF SOME 1 CAN HELP PLEASE DO SO WE WANT THIS ALL OUT IN THE OPEN AS WELL AND THE TRUTH AND JUSTICE TO BE SERVED THANK NICHOLE LOST FAMILY

What info do you have and where did you get it?

[lost in ohio]

Chris wrote:

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What info do you have and where did you get it?

well the only info we have is what was put in york pa newspaper and nic lawyer isnt saying n e thing so we r at we only new of the dollar amount of 8500.00 then i find on topix that she has used someone else name then we find out that there a dollar amount of 13,7 and 9thous.and we looked for the court records for pa and still nothing comes up with her name on it and in one of the topix comment it says court records show she used some 1 else name she wont talk to me or my mom about what she did so we would like to find out when or about when her court date will be and we wanted to look up the laws for pa bcause in ohio something like this would only be a few months in prison then they let u out on on papers and would also like to no if this reid hudson is going to file for the idenity theft or if so if u now where to look for the court doc please let us no i have been under the (ujs portal pa court doc )and nothing with nichole name on it so if u could help us out

[logan county]

chris from pa r u one of them that got scammed?

[Chris]

logan county wrote:

chris from pa r u one of them that got scammed?

Why do you ask this?

[logan county]

was just wondrn because her family doesnt no whats going on she has been n jail since sept and we just found the newspaper article friday. we would just like to get the real answers and nobody is talkn sorry if u were offended by me askn if u were 1 that got scammed

[logan county]

you have asked a few times how r we getting our info we it called the newspaper and topix as i have said be fore her family needs the answers as well as everyone else.

[benny]

you know chris i beleive in every article that i have googled nichole burk you have left comments..so with this in mind i am gonna ring in on my thoughts 1 time.chris everybody that ask a question you always ask why or how do you know this information.so i have come to 2 conclusions 1 you are a cop or 2 you are the one who got scammed.i know nicole personally and i would say she is just the idiot that the money runs to.so if you are a cop a little piece of mind do you really know who done it because if you talked with nicole or sat her down in front of the computer and told her to list a item on ebay i am sure that she couldn't more than sure let alone come up with vin numbers and things like that.so if you are a cop out fishing i probably would keep that in mind.2 if you are the one who got scammed..i beleive if i was buying a car and spending my 8500 dollars i beleive i would shop locally so i could at least testdrive look it over just little things like that.you know things most people do when you are buying a car???i hate to say this chris but the world is full of con artist-scammers-thiefs.i hate to say this but what nicole done was ignorant but the person who got scammed was even a bigger idiot wouldn't you agree.by the way i know personally that nicole has been sitting in muskingum county jail for 2 months now while pennsylvania is trying to build a case.if they had a strong enough case they would have already extradited her.and i am sure when she doesn't get extradited this paper will write a retraction since it states that she has chris.whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty.