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- Feb 28, 2003
Well, today my dad checked his e-mails, and noticed he had a bunch of replies from items that were being sold under his account name: "linkboy" on ebay. Somehow someone managed to ge tinto the account, and was selling a large amount os vaio labtop computers for around 1300. My dad was pissed, because he was having to pay these huge ebay fines from those items being listed and sold that high. So I decided to do a little investigating. I noticed that in some of the items being sold, their was german, so I went to my pals worldlingo.com, translated, and found out it was indeed german. Next I went on google searching for anything on ebay fraud. That is when I saw posts from a bunch of people who had this same thing happen to them. Then I found a nother page, it told about how some people. Whom I believe are assholes in germany, got a domain of signinebay.us, made up a page with the normal ebay layout, and put forms on it requesting your password, paypal password, e-mail address, credit card info, checking info.
What these people were doing, is they were sending e-mails to hundreds of users, and to most the e-mail would seem to be any normal ebay notification e-mail. Only it gave a link saying you need to verify some information because of ebay doing soemthing with their systems. I remember seeing an e-mail like that in my dad's inbox, thinking it had to be soem sort of a scam, but never thought twice about it. Ebay is on this bigtime, because their name and logo were being used for illegal purposes. I am goign to assume these people setup a swiss bank account and are having all paypal transactions sent their.
Fortunately I do not think my dad will have to pay for the ebay fees. But I feel bad for some of the people I saw posting on a ebay fraud forum saying they spent over 1,000$ on a computer, and now they can;t get the FBI or local officials to do anything about it.
Eventually these people WILL get caught. It is near impossible to deal with smuggling money without getting it traced back to you. These people are goign to have one hell of a law suit on their hands.
So I am just letting you people know all of these so if you have an ebay account, make sure you pay close attention to those annoying e-bay e-mails.
Jim Wade
What these people were doing, is they were sending e-mails to hundreds of users, and to most the e-mail would seem to be any normal ebay notification e-mail. Only it gave a link saying you need to verify some information because of ebay doing soemthing with their systems. I remember seeing an e-mail like that in my dad's inbox, thinking it had to be soem sort of a scam, but never thought twice about it. Ebay is on this bigtime, because their name and logo were being used for illegal purposes. I am goign to assume these people setup a swiss bank account and are having all paypal transactions sent their.
Fortunately I do not think my dad will have to pay for the ebay fees. But I feel bad for some of the people I saw posting on a ebay fraud forum saying they spent over 1,000$ on a computer, and now they can;t get the FBI or local officials to do anything about it.
Eventually these people WILL get caught. It is near impossible to deal with smuggling money without getting it traced back to you. These people are goign to have one hell of a law suit on their hands.
So I am just letting you people know all of these so if you have an ebay account, make sure you pay close attention to those annoying e-bay e-mails.
Jim Wade
