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Eric BrehmThe '52 Mays has been taken down now too. Good catch guys on the matching cert #'s. You may well have prevented someone from getting scammed for some big money.
I have seen many cases of this sort of thing lately, where a cert # from a legitimate card is 'borrowed' to try to sell a fake or substitute card. In some cases there is evidence of tampering with a holder and physical swapping of cards, and in others the switch is apparently done photographically, using an image editing program.
Challenging the sellers who offer these bogus cards/images seems to be an effective way to get them to pull the auctions. I usually don't accuse them of anything right away (after all, it is possible that they bought a fake card in a tampered holder themselves); I just express my concerns point blank, and present the evidence I have, with before and after scans if possible, and ask them if they can explain the discrepancy. That usually does the trick.