RE: Does anyone know how it is possible for "The Criminal
Element" to do such a thing. I thought that with a vehicle purchase
on e-Bay a buyer had the "Right" to retract a bid once he found out
that the vehicle wasn't as advertised.

I don't know how it is being done but I ran into a real slick one last week
that even had eBay fooled for a short time.
I have several standing searches on eBay that run every night.  One day last
week my email from eBay had a 'new listing' in it for one of the items I've
been watching for.  I clicked on the link provided by eBay and got a perfect
looking eBay page.  BUT I also got an immediate warning from software I run
that it was probably a bogus site.  A look at the URL confirmed that it was
NOT a normal eBay address.  I tried to contact eBay about it but there was
no way to get to them that I could find.  The usual mail to spoof@ebay was
bounced, that address is only good if forwarding a phishing message.  Later
in the day I checked and the listing was gone from eBay.  But some one had
figured out a way to redirect, probably code buried in an actual listing on
eBay.