Anyone who buys things on the auction site eBay knows if you aren’t the highest bidder, you sometimes get what they call a “second chance.”NewsCenter 5’s consumer reporter Susan Wornick said eBay users should beware of a new scam perpetrated by eBay imposters.”I got outbid, and then maybe two days later, I got a notice for a second chance,” said eBay user Robert Butts.Butts got an e-mail that appeared to be from eBay saying his bid had been accepted on jet skis. He said the e-mail looked legitimate.”It had the eBay logo and everything,” he said.But after Butts wired $6,000, he discovered he’d been scammed. The same thing happened to Matt Englander. He lost $800 after getting what looked like an official second chance eBay e-mail on a flat screen television.”I thought I was safe because eBay had given me supposedly assurances through this e-mail,” Englander said. “What I later found out, obviously, was that it was a fraudulent e-mail.”But when Englander reported it to eBay, he said no one would help.”More or less the message was, ‘You’re on your own, kid,’” Englander said.

Posted: 09|13|05 at 9:28 am. Filed under: US News.