I recently bid on - and lost - an eBay auction on a set of DVDs for my sweetie and now I seem to have gotten onto some sort of list where other folk are emailing me offers to buy the very same item but circumventing the eBay auction system. I'm leery, but thought maybe I'm missing out on a good deal. What's your advice?...

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I've been looking for phones online these days and i've found someone on ebay selling one. We talked out the price and everything. He asked me to transfer money through Western Union and put the receiver's name as a fake name where he can't get the money until I get my product, then once I get my product I would change the receiver's name back to his name. Is there anything to lose for me?...

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