Ebay/paypal Scam

Hi All,

I have been on the receiving end of a eBay scam where I purchased a Iphone4 from a person with over 100 feedback. To later see his feedback plumit with negative feedback. Obviously I never received this phone but Paypal did refund me.

Now from reading about the stealth paypal accounts and ebay. I am guessing the seller used this and therefor Paypal ultimately loose out.

I have searched the forums and read for a few hours on similar scams but could never find something as such. I have a few questions on this.

1. Do people get away with this?
- How do they withdraw the money?
- Anyone ever been caught?

2. Anyone ever done this here? I know that its paypal losing out in the end and alot of people hate paypal.


Please note - I am not interested in doing this myself I am just interested in the discussion.

Regards,