During the reading of this guide, you will learn how to avoid losing your money and what security measures you must take when you place your bid.

Frank Lewa / Henning Seefeldt is a well known fraud from Germany. He is making new accounts on eBay even as we speak, to list items he doesn't actually own. The scheme he uses is the following:

1. Make a new account on a different name. Lately he is making accounts using girls names, to add to the credibility.
2. List a number of items, usually music (rock, goth, metal etc.) or movies. He will mix regular CDs and DVDs with very rare and expensive CDs or vinyl LPs, also to add to the credibility.
3. His feedback is zero or next to zero and it shows that he is a new eBay user. He may leave feedback through his other accounts or wait until his account is no longer listed as "new", so that he will appear to be a regular eBay user. Sometimes he will have "private" feedback, to hide the negative feedback or to avoid showing suspicious positive feedback from other low feedback accounts.
4. He will regularly end listings early to the highest bidder, and most of his items are 3-day listings.
5. After someone wins the auction, he will request the payment to be made by bank transfer. His former accounts where he received money were:

V. Blacha
Postbank Nürnberg
Konto: 949044853
BLZ: 76010085

Additional account information:
IBAN: DE65760100850949044853
BIC: PBNKDEFF
Address: Schulstr.12, 47475 Kamp-Lintfort, Germany

and:

F. Lewa
Postbank Dortmund
Konto-Nr.: 361292462
BLZ: 44010046
IBAN: DE82440100460361292462
BIC: PBNKDEFF

and

Henning Seefeldt
Konto: 4308193
BLZ: 21052090
BIC: HSHNDEH1ECK
IBAN: DE56210520900004308193

and:

Christian Lewa
Konto: 715503466
BLZ: 44010046
Postbank Dortmund

Additional account info:
BIC: PBNKDEFF440
IBAN: DE29 4401 0046 0715 5034 66
Address: Schulstr.12, 47475 Kamp Lintfort, Germany

6. After a faily large number of such fraudulent sales are made, he will cash the money and usually after less than 1-2 weeks, he will close his eBay account. You won't be able to leave feedback. If you paid through a bank transfer or sent cash, there is absolutely no way for you to recover the money.
7. He will wait for a short while, during which he'll spend your money on expensive items, entertainment and other personal amusements. When they money are spent, he will register a new account, on a different name, and start it all over again.

Some of his current and past eBay user names were:

geblo1972 : CURRENTLY ACTIVE, DEFRAUDING BUYERS!
nightofthecreeps01 : CURRENTLY ACTIVE, DEFRAUDING BUYERS!

ingolinke1976 : CURRENTLY ACTIVE, DEFRAUDING BUYERS!
zudensternen176176 : CURRENTLY ACTIVE, DEFRAUDING BUYERS!
tuellerthom : CURRENTLY ACTIVE, DEFRAUDING BUYERS!

lostchild337222 : SOLD MANY ITEMS RECENTLY, HAS BEEN SUSPENDED!!!
candysnatcherfromspace : SOLD MANY ITEMS RECENTLY, HAS BEEN SUSPENDED!!!
redneckzombie69 : SOLD A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF ITEMS RECENTLY, HAS BEEN SUSPENDED!!!
linost123 : SOLD A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF ITEMS RECENTLY, HAS BEEN SUSPENDED!!!
uter666 : SOLD MANY ITEMS RECENTLY, HAS BEEN SUSPENDED!!!
funeralfogfh : SOLD A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF ITEMS, HAS BEEN SUSPENDED!!!
visitorxy : SOLD MANY ITEMS RECENTLY, HAS BEEN SUSPENDED!!!

(Please take note that only by using the above 4 user IDs alone, this individual has stolen THOUSANDS of $ from unsuspecting buyers, money that will never be recovered!).

2007verenaj and rodtraud11 (used mainly to post feedback on his above accounts)
datoless0215 (recently suspended: used as ghost account to leave feedback on uter666 account above, then tried to sell items, but was promptly suspended!)
svefeima (recently suspended)
cronos444777 (recently suspended)
fistfuck666 (recently suspended!)
truppensturm (selling bogus items, recently suspended)
anfra7070
tanponitz
presidentevil777 
shaocheng1
stacheldrahtstrangulation
elbomago
ordoadchaos
coohagen77
stjo83
billyzanes
mudoven14
alucarda1313
alw.berger
blacha85
captain_spaulding01
fulcilives75
kiraly87
stuben666
wanne.78
zoltan444
sakuyademonslayer
slasher851
flsm666
jac.weiss
kaci74
lucke1288
magin232

and many more.

Here's some examples of his listings: search on eBay for items: 280263982038, 280263983246 and many other more, which are all currently active on eBay, receiving bids!

Look for username  geblo1972  and  nightofthecreeps01  and search their listings!

http://search.ebay.de/_W0QQsassZgeblo1972

http://shop.ebay.de/merchant/nightofthecreeps01_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ

Frank Lewa / Henning Seefeldt is by far the most known rip off on eBay of his genre (rock, gothic and metal music). There are a lot of pages on the internet about him, made by people who have been ripped off by him. I have also been unfortunate to fall for his scheme and become yet another victim of Frank Lewa.

Recently, Frank Lewa / Henning Seefeldt began using Paypal to purchase items on eBay. As you'd expect, he has no intention of paying anything for the stuff, so he will use the folowing scheme:

1. Purchase item.
2. Pay for it through Paypal, using PENDING PayPal payments which are CANCELLED after shipping.
3. Lewa receives the stuff, leaving sellers without their money and their goods.

He recently used the Paypal address  subspecies1 @ web.de  which is attached to the first address below:

Here's some of his physical addresses:

F. Lewa
Ruhrstr.3m
47443 Moers
Germany

(possible REAL address, he received cash payments there!)

and

Frank Lewa
Im Moerser Feld 4
47441 Moers
Germany

and this one:

Henning Seefeldt
Ringweg 67
24340 Friedland-Windeby
Germany

Please take note! He will use fake/bogus names and addresses on all his new eBay accounts. For example, he would register the eBay account under a bogus name, like for the bogus seller account stjo83 he used this random name and address:

Stefan Jordan
Holderberger Str. 84
47447 Moers
Deutschland

As one can see, apparently unrelated to him or his name and address. However, when he asks for money, right after the auctions end, he will indicate you to send the payments to his bank account, registered to Henning Seefeldt:

Henning Seefeldt
Konto: 4308193
BLZ: 21052090
BIC: HSHNDEH1ECK
IBAN: DE56210520900004308193

Recently, he used a different account, opened on a different name, probably of one of his accomplices, to avoid suspicion, since his own name can draw attention easily:

Violetta Blacha
Konto: 949044853
BLZ: 76010085
Postbank Nürnberg

and:

Thomas Hörterer
Bank-Account 57657
BLZ 70169168
VR-Bank Chiemgau-Süd
IBAN DE46 7016 9168 0000 0576 57
BIC GENOF1RIW

If you won an item and something smells fishy, or you see one or more of the things described above - DO NOT SEND MONEY, because you will never recover them nor receive anything. He doesn't actually own any of the items he has listed on eBay. Plus, he has hundreds of total records of rip-off alarms in his feedback.

If you already sent him the money, the best thing you can do is to report him to the Police or Interpol. When more people report him, they will do something about it, put it on the international fraud list and upon arrest, perhaps some of the losses can be recovered.

You must always know this - never purchase something that costs more than a few euros from:

- someone with zero feedback or with suspicious feedback
- from someone that does not accept Paypal or other verifyable methods that you can actually be able to recover the money if something goes wrong (avoid sending bank transfers and cash!)
- from someone who has a new account from less than a month
- from someone who has "private" feedback (that usually means he has something to hide)
- from someone that ends listings early, or makes you any private offers

Do all you can to help stop this thief!

Take care!