tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374924292012-02-16T01:48:10.094-05:00From small time hustles to outright fraud, online auctions attract them all. We'll be looking at some of the latest news and offering some tips on how not to become a victim.Radnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-76225740570793490722011-01-13T18:59:00.003-05:002011-01-13T19:00:05.722-05:00

Two Vietnamese exchange students have been charged with defrauding hundreds of eBay and PayPal users. The students, Tram Vo and Khoi Van, were apparently “mules” within a larger identity theft organization based in Vietnam. Their fraudulent activities netted them over a million dollars, much of which was transferred directly to offshore accounts in Canada and Vietnam. The scheme was intricate

Radnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-85677078480936230042008-07-04T14:56:00.000-04:002008-07-04T14:58:07.703-04:00

WYOMING – Borough police Thursday filed several charges against the owners of the eBay Drop-Off Store for failing to return items given for sale and failing to return cash proceeds for items sold.Arrest warrants have been issued for Benjamin Waltman, 27, and Kimberly Waltman, 25, both of Jenkins Township. Each faces charges of deceptive or fraudulent business practices, theft by failure to make

Radnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-57395603400699480122008-06-19T22:38:00.000-04:002008-06-19T22:39:17.359-04:00

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 06.19.2008 The owners of a local eBay auction business are facing theft and fraud charges, suspected of selling their customers' merchandise and then refusing to pay out the proceeds, police said.Tucson police arrested Thomas A. Collier, 36, and Wendy C. Wren, 35, owners of Arizona eBay Auctioneers, after serving a search warrant on the business Tuesday, said Sgt.

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-77129624530473385542008-05-27T07:40:00.000-04:002008-05-27T07:41:56.268-04:00

The world of online auctions is becoming as notorious as the Wild West. Unscrupulous thieves con innocent buyers and the authorities seem powerless to intervene.Fraudtracking.com, a campaigning website, estimates that British customers are losing £500,000 a day through fraudulent transactions on the various auction sites, but there were just 70 convictions for online auction fraud last

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-52971645049892648222008-05-16T23:13:00.001-04:002008-05-16T23:17:41.236-04:00

Macon Police arrested two men they say ran an internet scam over eBay.Sgt. Melanie Hofmann says on April 22, 23-year-old Dominique Cipella from Fort Rucker, Alabama filed a report with the Macon Police Department about an Ebay purchase that he paid for but never received. Cipella said he paid more than $2,000 for a 52-inch High-Definition television on the online auction site in February. Cipella

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-58495560658215798812008-05-15T07:09:00.000-04:002008-05-15T07:10:21.052-04:00

MOBILE, Ala. -- Last week, investigators with the Mobile County Sheriff's Office learned of a scam perpetrated against individuals purchasing items listed on eBay. In less than 48 hours, Investigators with the White Collar Crimes Unit recovered $125,000 in stolen merchandise in the internet-related scam.On April 28, 2008, a local antiques business owner informed investigators with the Mobile

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-10276075416887723712008-04-28T14:34:00.000-04:002008-04-28T14:37:15.316-04:00

Another huge kink in eBay’s armor has been revealed today. Several eBay members have managed to manipulate eBay by rigging the eBay Pulse page and making thousands of dollars per month for their effort.Full story including video and account of events of this scam.( http://www.gurucreation.com/2008/04/ebay-pulse-scam.html )An eBay member has apparently created a piece of software that creates

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-78798402078338999652008-04-26T11:16:00.000-04:002008-04-26T11:17:43.669-04:00

DELHI -- A man who was allegedly running an Internet scam using eBay from his parents' home is now behind bars.Merced County sheriff's investigators arrested 20-year-old Benjamin Haag after eight alleged victims reported that they ordered goods from Haag -- but never received the items they paid for.Haag faces felony grand theft and fraud charges.John Mussotto, a sheriff's computer and forensics

Radnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-36879741845089284902008-04-23T09:40:00.000-04:002008-04-23T09:41:55.528-04:00

A 45-year-old Alabaster man, already accused of scamming people out of thousands of dollars, today was charged in connection with a scheme to take money from people using eBay. David "Chopper" Strevel, once a baseball/softball youth league president, was charged with two counts of theft of property, Alabaster police say. It marks the third time police arrested Strevel in six months.This time

Radnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-1358441143278810602008-04-14T15:06:00.002-04:002008-04-14T15:08:51.692-04:00

Dinah GreekAn Ebay fraudster who managed to evade a police investigation last year has struck again.The Ebay seller offered goods for sale on the online auction site and received payments by postal order but never sent the goods to buyers.Despite police involvement he was able to continue his scam, conning nearly 200 more people last month. However the number may be higher and police believe that

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-85109875868377325242008-04-08T13:21:00.001-04:002008-04-08T13:23:09.915-04:00

A Brisbane man who ripped off three people using internet auction site eBay has been sentenced to jail.Rory James Kleidon pleaded guilty in the District Court this morning to a single fraud charge after holding a dud auction for a gold nugget on the site in June last year>The court heard the 24 year-old mechanic's assistant used his girlfriend's account to post an ad for the precious metal, which

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-40462309179574621712008-04-06T14:50:00.000-04:002008-04-06T14:51:26.168-04:00

FRONT ROYAL — The Warren County Sheriff's Office is investigating a Linden woman in connection with an Internet scam involving designer handbags.According to an affidavit for a search warrant on file in Circuit Court completed by investigator R.A. Fogle, Kristine Nelson, of 4225 Blue Mountain Road, is under investigation.Fogle says in the affidavit that the Sheriff's Office received complaints in

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-60748477748956727692008-04-02T21:31:00.001-04:002008-04-02T21:32:37.494-04:00

KATHRYN MARCHOCKIConcord – A Concord couple were small-time operators in a global cyberscam that swindled people who sell items on eBay, Craigslist and other popular online marketplaces, state police alleged yesterday.Investigators now ask anyone who lost money in the alleged con game to come forward, saying they may have computer evidence and other documentation police need to track higher-ups

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-27209209155870906522008-03-23T12:00:00.001-04:002008-03-23T12:01:35.423-04:00

POLICE swooped on addresses in Selby district in dawn raids to arrest suspected internet fraudsters.Two people were arrested in connection with alleged scams involving internet marketplace Ebay.The operation was led by the North Yorkshire Police's financial investigation unit, based at the force's Northallerton headquarters. The unit was supported by safer neighbourhoods officers from

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-67092549307375572472008-03-22T12:11:00.001-04:002008-03-22T12:13:54.917-04:00

Raju Shanbhag All is not going well for online seller eBay (News - Alert). The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has filed eight new lawsuits against eBay-based software sellers, alleging that they are selling counterfeit products. This takes the total number of lawsuits filed against the eBay sellers by SIIA to 17 as the organization has already filed 9 cases before.In fact

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-37327625003021457262008-03-21T22:37:00.000-04:002008-03-21T22:40:05.175-04:00

Mar 20, 2008 (The Register-Herald - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) A Fayette County woman and her mother have been charged with numerous crimes after authorities said they made thousands of dollars in fraudulent Internet purchases.Robin Sue Layton, 20, of Ansted, was charged with 20 counts of computer fraud, two counts of identity theft and one count of conspiracy to commit

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-45271921596460749322008-03-20T14:10:00.000-04:002008-03-20T14:11:41.104-04:00

Seven people have been charged in connection with a multi-million dollar international art forgery operation.Four Americans, two Spaniards and an Italian are accused of producing and selling thousands of counterfeit prints around the world.The fakes of artworks by artists such as Picasso, Chagall, Miro and Dali sold for up to $50,000 (£25,000) each. source: BBC News

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-59646624751426177022008-03-18T13:51:00.001-04:002008-03-18T13:54:57.569-04:00

"With e-crime, there's no silver bullet," says Garreth Griffith, head of UK risk management at online payment processor PayPal. "A specific initiative can have a huge impact, but it also has to be married with other initiatives along a spectrum. You can't just focus on educating users or working with law enforcement - you've got to go for a multi-pronged approach as you're constantly fighting a

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-70791561731544824572008-03-13T20:10:00.001-04:002008-03-13T20:11:41.370-04:00

Detectives in the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service’s (RCIPS) Financial Crimes Unit (FCU) are warning residents to be on their guard against a new form of scam in the Cayman Islands.Officers have been alerted to an advertisement placed in local press asking for ‘Part Time Assistants’ with no further job description and giving a yahoo email address for interested persons to contact. Once the

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-62699085120329482292008-03-12T15:56:00.001-04:002008-03-12T15:58:08.633-04:00

A dad-of-two who ran a bogus DVD racket from his South Tyneside home is today behind bars.Simon Keenan bought counterfeit films from the Far East and flogged them for profit on eBay and his own website.At peak times, such as Christmas, house husband Keenan, of Connaught Terrace, Jarrow, could make £350 a day shifting up to 70 films, making a £5 profit on each.A Newcastle Crown Court judge

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-37251280275037509212008-03-11T19:38:00.001-04:002008-03-11T19:42:00.942-04:00

Britt SmithTwo Geelong women who lost hundreds of dollars in an alleged internet holiday scam are among thousands of victims to be compensated.Online auction house eBay was yesterday setting up a special fund for people who bought fake accommodation packages from Melbourne-based booking agent, Robert Kobis.Highton's Melissa Fisher lost $280 and Benita Clark of Maud more than $100 in the alleged

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-81276140060219703372008-03-08T14:46:00.001-05:002008-03-08T14:48:15.841-05:00

Kylie ReghenzaniBRISBANE tourist Don Bailey has vowed to join other victims of a holiday rip-off and launch legal action against an online travel agent who ruined their dream holidays and left them thousands of dollars out of pocket.Online auction site eBay has suspended Beach Australia's Robert Kobis, who also operates Cyber Blue Media, from trading on the site after it received hundreds of

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-78633689207334045392008-03-07T22:17:00.000-05:002008-03-07T22:18:50.170-05:00

THE dangers of online shopping were highlighted when a man was yesterday convicted of using eBay to cheat customers.Wayne O'Boyle took £5,000 from victims by advertising electrical goods he did not have on the internet auction site. Judge John Walford, at Teesside Crown Court, said: "It strikes at the heart of the internet auction system."What he did is too easy for anyone with half a brain and a

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-68488390753982517522008-03-06T13:56:00.001-05:002008-03-06T13:58:40.601-05:00

By RODNEY HARTA Quincy man pleaded guilty Monday to theft and was sentenced to five years in prison for an eBay scam involving a non-existent Mickey Mantle baseball card.Jeremy Markell, 29, pleaded guilty to theft over $10,000 and was sentenced by Judge William Mays. Markell also was ordered to pay $29,804 in restitution.First Assistant State's Attorney Gary Farha said Markell put a photocopy of

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-71994050763915651822008-03-05T10:06:00.000-05:002008-03-05T10:07:17.245-05:00

Tom Spring, PC WorldYou never can defend yourself too much while online.A PC World reader alerted me to a flaw on eBay's Web site that enabled a scam designed to trick people into handing over their personal information. eBay promptly patched the flaw last week, but experts I spoke with are wondering how long the fix will hold.The flaw allowed a scammer to use an increasingly common type of

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-52386122003352080832008-02-29T18:52:00.000-05:002008-02-29T18:53:56.350-05:00

Kary Dean Head, 50, of Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Harold L. Murphy on a wire fraud charge arising from a scheme to defraud bidders on eBay, the Internet auction service, of over $150,000.“This defendant attempted to use the anonymity of the Internet to steal more than $150,000 from unsuspecting victims,” said United States Attorney David E.

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-14083664741793577572008-02-29T12:54:00.001-05:002008-02-29T12:56:08.277-05:00

2008-02-29 08:53:45 - Like any other market place, eBay has its share of both good and bad sellers, offering bargains and scams. One scam carried out by a small number of eBay sellers that is becoming increasingly common is high powered green laser pointers.The scam itself is based on the type of light given out by the laser pointer, the way power is measured, changes made to the laser pointer

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-91540489576079959282008-02-28T09:33:00.001-05:002008-02-28T09:34:48.743-05:00

By E. Michael JohnsonCounterfeit equipment is more available and increasingly harder to detect. What you need to know to avoid getting burned by this $240 million international scamJay Weibel was browsing eBay, searching for an Odyssey Marxman putter. Finding one for $118 -- an attractive price, but not so cheap it aroused suspicion -- the 4-handicapper from East Brady, Pa., made a bid and

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-51279027329782058462008-02-26T21:05:00.001-05:002008-02-26T21:07:22.592-05:00

by Hywel TrewynA CON artist is using eBay to sell a huge 56ft mural painted on the side of a town centre wall – with the wall included.The mural called Helter Skelter was painted by artist Ed Povey in Caernarfon to celebrate the National Eisteddfod coming to the town in 1979 and depicts well-known landmarks and characters.Mr Povey, who has painted 25 murals around North Wales, said last night he

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-74635946515425361982008-02-24T16:22:00.002-05:002008-02-24T16:30:43.840-05:00

The winning bid from Ireland of $3,002,150 for a massive record collection offered by Paul Mawhinney, of Ross Township, PA was apparently a fraudulent bid. J. Paul Henderson, an agent for the sale, said he was notified by an eBay executive Friday night that the bid was not legitimate and that the bidder's account had been suspended.The Irish gentleman whose screen name "jopsoup" appeared as the

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-57900397573987492762008-02-22T23:21:00.000-05:002008-02-22T23:22:56.339-05:00

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Anthony Ricca called the Star Wars Legos items he sold on EBay "Heroes of the Galaxy." West Palm Beach authorities call his actions a $42,000 theft scheme.The 37-year-old Ricca is charged with grand theft and fraud after allegedly stealing the Legos Star Wars toys from several Target stores in Broward and Palm Beach counties.source - wpbf.com

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-82596456716036438802008-02-19T15:00:00.002-05:002008-02-19T15:04:51.277-05:00

NORFOLK -- The former archivist for Mariners’ Museum in Newport News and his wife allegedly sold items taken from the museum and sold them on eBay.Lester F. Weber, 46, and Lori E. Childs, 49, were in U.S. District Tuessday, accused of selling more than 1,400 items, including documents from a Titanic survivor, for more than $162,000. source: WVEC.com

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-32405904132178025242008-02-16T17:41:00.000-05:002008-02-16T17:43:38.812-05:00

Mahesh SharmaEVEN as the internet opens up new venues for retail activity, its potential pitfalls are still leading buyers and sellers, large and small, to treat it with caution.But with a bit of prudence, caution, and plain common sense, online trading advocates say the risk is not as great as it may sometimes appear. Anecdotally, it seems a lot of people have been reluctant to buy and sell

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-12508102775202731032008-02-14T18:31:00.001-05:002008-02-14T18:34:42.876-05:00

Grant GrossSan Francisco - Online auction giant eBay has been slow to respond to concerns about pirated software being sold there, prompting the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) to file nine lawsuits against eBay-based software sellers, an SIIA official said.The SIIA believes it is necessary to file the lawsuits because eBay has been largely uncooperative in cracking down on

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-19630405580349042622008-02-12T19:48:00.000-05:002008-02-12T19:50:23.281-05:00

The iPod is popular bait for one of the latest and greatest Ebay scams. Do a search for “iPod” and you will pull up a few thousand listings. Many look good but turn out to be inducements to join pyramid style matrix schemes. Ebay these days to be swamped with such (illegal) schemes. Most appear on the outset to be legitimate buyers clubs. For many it is only on closer observation it becomes

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-82241454088794713742008-02-11T14:59:00.000-05:002008-02-11T15:06:55.402-05:00

An outstanding tongue in cheek auction protest which was posted on Ebay.co.uk . The auction is for a (real) SONY VAIO VGN-NR21J/S LAPTOP and contains photos and relevant info. The seller then adds his comments on how "different ways you can steal this laptop from me" .... see belowDIFFERENT WAYS YOU CAN STEAL THIS LAPTOP OFF ME:PAYPAL: Paypal is currently ebays preferred method of stealing high

Radnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-73161473260550855132008-02-10T07:40:00.000-05:002008-02-10T07:42:05.361-05:00

MICHAEL GORMLEYALBANY, N.Y. - Documents dating from the Civil War and others to and from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt are among hundreds of stolen documents sold online that eBay is agreeing to buy back and return to New York's archives, a state official said Saturday.The online auction giant has no liability in the sale of the stolen artifacts, but agreed voluntarily to offer buyers the

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-27971339557871950422008-02-09T07:46:00.000-05:002008-02-09T07:48:03.029-05:00

Jason Lee Miller Some Pennsylvania bureaucrats have lost their minds, probably somewhere in the stack of papers their shuffling, after noticing how much money the state was losing by not enforcing an arcane law established long before anybody ever heard of eBay.A Pennsylvania woman, eBay seller, and mother to an infant with a brain tumor is the government's target. That was sort of the whole

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-66826006577386229792008-02-07T10:45:00.000-05:002008-02-07T10:49:32.121-05:00

By Toriano L. Porter | toriano.porter@examiner.netAn Independence woman was among seven people indicted in an alleged eBay scheme that netted more than $1.2 million from the sale of stolen goodsStacie M. Emmerich, 33, of Independence, was among six other associates of John Charles Chass, 40, of Kansas City charged by the federal attorney in a scheme to steal property from area retailers and sell

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-85394547401414771642008-02-05T07:03:00.000-05:002008-02-05T07:05:06.606-05:00

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The FBI said 12 people were arrested Monday in connection with a multimillion-dollar property scam in the Northland.Agents said three years of investigation culminated in the FBI raid of a home in the 6300 block of North Bedford Avenue.The FBI said investigators found millions of dollars in stolen merchandise, including electronics, tools and vacuum cleaners. The merchandise

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-6720308596269581932008-02-02T19:23:00.000-05:002008-02-02T19:25:09.708-05:00

Nicola Smith, Dragasani, RomaniaHUNDREDS of people in the poor Romanian town of Dragasani have grown rich by conning eBay online auction customers with deals that seem too good to be true - and often are.The scammers have even put the new town hall up for sale on eBay, the mayor admitted last week. “I mean, who would want it?” he asked.Despite growing concern about online frauds, the European

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-27317162083006392622008-02-01T18:40:00.000-05:002008-02-01T18:43:35.538-05:00

James A. MartinOften, when the words "eBay fraud" are spoken, they're accompanied by an accusatory finger pointing to the seller. But as I described in "Selling Your Laptop on eBay," buyers are quite capable of trying to pull a fast one, too. (My column detailed two different fraudulent attempts to purchase my Sony Vaio laptop on eBay.)Since that column appeared, I've heard from several laptop

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-57391204904326610632008-01-30T18:53:00.000-05:002008-01-30T18:55:33.176-05:00

According Gartner, phishing attacks robbed 3.6 million people of $3.2 billion in 2007. Truemark reduces the risk of e-mail phishing by confirming the source of the e-mail sender. Consumers will see the Truemark icon in their inbox next to messages from senders that have been verified as legitimate.Iconix, a provider of visual e-mail identification solutions, announced that its Iconix Truemark

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-19645027034752174602008-01-29T08:05:00.000-05:002008-01-29T08:07:24.529-05:00

By CLARE TRAPASSO, Associated Press WriterNEW YORK - A state archivist was charged Monday with stealing hundreds of artifacts — documents representing "the heritage of all Americans," according to the history buff who found some of them on eBay — to pay his household bills.ADVERTISEMENTDaniel Lorello, 54, is accused of taking the rare items from the New York State Library, including Davy

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-37100103877734684822008-01-28T19:37:00.000-05:002008-01-28T19:38:58.274-05:00

EBay's online payments division, PayPal, will pay US$169 million for an Israeli security company specializing in detecting online fraud, the companies said Monday. The deal should close within 30 days.Fraud Sciences, a private company, has developed technology designed to differentiate between real and fraudulent transactions. That technology will be folded into PayPal's antifraud systems, which

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-27122081490766799122008-01-27T20:29:00.000-05:002008-01-27T20:31:10.957-05:00

A south side man with no prior criminal record told investigators he was feeding a gambling addiction when police say he defrauded 17 customers in 12 states of $8,000 during bogus computer sales over eBay.A year-long investigation tracked as many as 42 possible victims, but Cudahy [Wisconsin] police plan to seek charges on the four most provable cases. Those victims sent money to the man's Cudahy

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-11751387387768301572008-01-24T08:45:00.000-05:002008-01-24T08:46:45.865-05:00

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Three people were arrested Wednesday for allegedly conducting fraudulent online auto-parts sales out of their Manheim Township home.State police charged Edwin Aloysius Sanders V, 24; his brother, Robert Andrew Sanders, 20; and Keshia Marie Otto, 21, all of 423 Amesbury Road, with theft by deception, running a corrupt organization, receiving stolen property and conspiracy

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-75254583068413000902008-01-23T14:23:00.000-05:002008-01-23T14:24:41.853-05:00

In a twist, security researchers have discovered a group of hackers who are exploiting a new category of victims-- aspiring Internet scammers.A Moroccan group called "Mr. Brain" is offering free phishing kits on a Web site hosted in France, said Paul Mutton, Internet services developer at Netcraft, a security company in Bath, England.The software packages make it easy to quickly set up a

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-59573516561886819382008-01-20T22:27:00.000-05:002008-01-20T22:30:16.415-05:00

A DISABLED pensioner who was duped out of $11 has helped bring down an alleged internet scammer from the Northern Territory. NT Police believe 22-year-old Brent Mack conned almost $5000 out of buyers on the auction website eBay.But the alleged scam artist might still be operating if not for the efforts of Ralph Johansson.Mr Johansson, of Busselton in Western Australia, was so incensed at being

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-68199151480282617912008-01-18T15:18:00.000-05:002008-01-18T15:20:12.101-05:00

By Colin Barker,ZDNet UKA Derby man is facing up to 10 years in jail after pleading guilty to illegally selling expensive CAD software at massively reduced prices.The AceCad software, which has been used in high-profile projects like London's "Gherkin" building, sells for thousands of pounds; Michael Walton was selling illegal copies of the software on eBay for just 12 pounds (US$24.60). He

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-67637291265485288632008-01-16T18:17:00.000-05:002008-01-16T18:20:07.966-05:00

By JANET KELLEY, StaffLancaster New EraLANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Harley-Davidson Inc. apparently keeps a very close eye on its motorcycle parts and other products.So when assorted electrical items and accessories started appearing for sale on eBay, the online auction site, somebody at Harley-Davidson's headquarters in Milwaukee took notice.Corporate security officers looked a little more closely at

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By JON TEVLIN, Star TribuneIt's easier than ever for con artists to trick people into parting with their money. And it's harder than ever for authorities to stop them.Pete Giancola was looking for a bass boat for his son, so he went looking on eBay, where he found one listed for a good price.He began the purchase, but it didn't take long for "the bells and whistles to start going off" for

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The BBC's consumer rights team Watchdog has detailed a scam exploiting up to 2,500 people among the many thousands who were part of the pre-Christmas scramble for scarce Wii supply in the UK.Ozone Electronics, an Oldham-based company, appealed to desperate prospective Wii buyers by guaranteeing delivery of consoles by the middle of December, while taking payment upfront. As dissatisfied shoppers

Radnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37492429.post-27497472410090859612008-01-11T23:01:00.000-05:002008-01-11T23:10:37.474-05:00

According to the anti-spam website SpamStopsHere, spam accounted for 95% of all email traffic in the year 2007. Spammers grew increasingly bolder in 2007 with the development of new techniques and tactics that had not been seen in previous years. Likewise, the number of email phishing scams also rose dramatically in 2007. The majority of phishing attacks centered on Paypal, Ebay, and the banking

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Auction website eBay claims it is committed to ensuring that "criminal activity is detected and stopped before any harm is done". Yet we've uncovered shocking evidence of eBay neglecting warnings and allowing users to be scammed.Danny Smyth of Manchester discovered the eBay account he'd run for more than three years had been hijacked when he got an odd call about electrical testing kits he didn't

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The Macomb County Sheriff's Department has arrested one woman for allegedly selling stolen Chrysler navigational radios on eBay and said more suspects might be arrested in what authorities are calling a "major eBay scam."Andrea Christina Hickman, 39, of Detroit was arrested and arraigned in the 41-B District Court of Clinton Township last week on charges of receiving and concealing stolen

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A tech industry group is offering consumers up to $500 for reporting software counterfeiters who sell their goods on online auction sites like eBay.Under the plan offered by the Software & Information Industry Association, anyone who unwittingly buys fake software from an online fraudster can receive up to $500 if they report the scam.The SIIA said it hopes tipsters will use the reward money to

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MADISON WI — A Reedsburg woman faces up to 60 years in prison after a federal grand jury indicted her for defrauding bidders on eBay.Christina M. Phillips, 28, was charged Tuesday with three counts of devising a fraud scheme by a grand jury sitting in Madison, according to a statement by the office of U.S. Attorney Erik C. Petersen. If she is convicted, she faces up to 20 years in federal prison

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A former Neiman Marcus security officer admitted to stealing from the Northpark store at least $200,000 worth of jewelry, which was then sold on eBay, the U.S. Attorney’s office said on Tuesday.Manuel Alvarez, 37, of Mesquite, entered a guilty plea Tuesday to an information charging one count of transportation of stolen goods in interstate commerce and aiding and abetting, said U.S. Attorney

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Michael and Alice Sleeth of Oreana are facing charges of theft and Internet fraud. Authorities say they scammed more than $6000 out of on-line shoppers since 2002.Authorities say the Sleeths posted carburetors and other car parts for sale on online auction sites like EBay and RacingJunk.com. They say the couple would collect money from winning bidders, then send them the wrong auction item., or

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CALGARY (CBC) - EBay is not responsible for criminals who abuse its online auction service, said a company spokeswoman after CBC News reported on a Calgary man who lost $20,000 on an eBay transaction. "That's an internet problem, not an eBay problem," Erin Sufrin said Monday about criminals engineering scams through the service.Shaqir Duraj, a Calgary bakery owner, won an eBay auction for a car

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RCMP investigator says eBay trying to hide scam problemA Calgary man is one of 1,000 Canadians who have been scammed on eBay through a tactic known as hijacking, and the RCMP says the online auction service is not co-operating with their criminal investigations.Shaqir Duraj, a Calgary bakery owner, won an eBay auction for a car in early October. He thought he was dealing with a reputable seller

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Nine charges of violating the Oklahoma Consumer Protection Act were filed Thursday against a Norman man, for offering silver bars and coins for sale over eBay, and collecting more than $10,000 from nine potential customers without providing the merchandise, according to state Attorney General Drew Edmondson.Chelsey Christopher Davis, 33, was charged in Cleveland County District Court after he

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Hundreds of eBay customers have signed a petition calling on the auction site to take action over alleged fraudulent activity involving MP3 players.According to the online petition, fake MP3 and MP4 players are being sold on eBay that claim to offer higher storage capacity than they actually have.The petition states: "MP3\MP4 players are being sold to unsuspecting buyers worldwide.These players

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NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) -- Tiffany & Co.'s top executive said Tuesday that pursuing litigation against eBay Inc. was more effective and economical at stopping counterfeit sales of its products than targeting individual sellers on the online auction site.At a hearing in federal court in Manhattan, Michael J. Kowalski, the jewelry retailer's chairman and chief executive, said it has been very

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A former leasing company executive who stole thousands of items from the mail, including a Tom Brady rookie card, and sold them on eBay has been sentenced Tuesday to 120 days in the Kane County Jail. Mark Hoggay, 51, of Geneva Township, who pleaded guilty to felony theft, was also sentenced to 4 years' probation.Hoggay worked as vice president of human resources for a Bolingbrook leasing company

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A sophisticated Trojan menacing eBay Motors users continues to circulate, according to researchers from Symantec, who say the malware has morphed three times in the last week in an attempt to evade detection.Trojan.Bayrob is in constant contact with a fleet of control servers so it can be updated in real time - all the better to trick victims into making pricey fraudulent purchases. It regularly

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NEW YORK A lawyer for Tiffany & Co. accused eBay Inc. on Tuesday of allowing the sale of tens of thousands of pieces of counterfeit Tiffany jewelry on its Web site; an eBay lawyer responded that Tiffany wasn't doing its share to protect customers. The arguments in U.S. District Court in Manhattan came at the start of a trial to decide whether eBay can be blamed for the sales of silver Tiffany

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By BILL RANKIN The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA Cumming man who sold more than $1 million worth of counterfeit computer products on eBay pleaded guilty Thursday before a federal judge in Atlanta.From 2003 until early this year, Todd Richard, 33, sold fake Cisco computer components by using several eBay account names and business addresses, federal prosecutors said. Richard was charged last

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A Detroit teen was robbed at gunpoint when he met the person who sold him an item on eBay on Saturday afternoon, according to Southfield police.The 17-year-old Aric Adams was the winning bidder for a pair of $1,100 Cartier sunglasses. The person who placed the item on eBay told him to meet at the entrance of an apartment complex at Providence and 9 Mile roads. When he arrived, the seller called

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A former Sacramento man has been sentenced to two years in prison after bilking eBay consumers out of more than $93,000.Gilbert Vartanian, 37, was sentenced Monday in federal court following his Aug. 7 conviction of committing fraud on eBay, according to a news release by the office of U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott.Vartanian was found guilty on nine counts of mail fraud for selling, but never

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U.S retailers lose about $30 million a year to organized theft, much of what is later sold on internet auction sites such as Ebay.Retailers have called upon the U.S. Congress for legislation to combat this growing problem. Specifically, retailers have asked Congress to require online auction sites such as eBay to post the serial numbers of items for sale and to provide more information about high

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The trial of a UK man suspected of defrauding eBay users was scuttled after an employee for the online auction house abruptly left the island before offering key testimony.According to the Herald Express, eBay employee Kevin Morgan arrived in Exeter on Sunday, but left on Wednesday morning before taking the stand because he was fed up with the wait."The trial has effectively been torpedoed by his

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LONDON, Oct. 21 Investigators in England uncovered fraudulent auctions on eBay resulting in large-scale scams targeting British users.EBay users are being deceived into giving private e-mail accounts and other secure information by responding to fraudulent e-mails supposedly from the auction site.Authorities tracked more than 30 cases to a German-based computer and bank account used in the

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FOREIGN criminals are stealing the credentials of British users of the internet auction site eBay to perpetrate large-scale fraud.An investigation has identified one German-based fraudster who hijacked more than 30 accounts and used them to fleece UK car buyers.It comes as increasing numbers of eBay users report concerns about trading on the site.Figures from the government-funded Consumer Direct

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Dan GoodinThe RegisterMiscreants have unleashed a new strain of a sophisticated Trojan that targets eBay users by feeding them spoofed web pages containing fraudulent information about high-ticket purchases, The Register has learned. It has already contributed to an $8,600 loss by one eBay member.The Trojan installs a scaled-down webserver on an infected machine that masquerades as eBay and

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MANILA, Philippines -- The good news: Hackers have eased on phishing activities targeted at eBay and PayPal users. The bad news: They're looking for lesser-known websites to victimize.Phishing is an attempt to criminally acquire sensitive user information on the Internet.Data from antivirus firm Sophos shows 21 percent of total phishing email detected by its SophosLabs in September pretended to

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An undercover police officer posed as a postie to catch fraudsters using a house in Luton to receive mobile telephones won on eBay, after conning sellers into believing they had paid for them.Temitope Otukoya, 28, and Olamrewaju Otukoya, 42, of Creswell Gardens, were both remanded in custody at Luton Magistrates' Court and will appear at Luton Crown Court next Friday.Police discovered that fake

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A malicious hacker broke into an eBay server on Friday and temporarily suspended the accounts of a "very small" number of members, the company said."We were able to block the fraudster quickly before any permanent damage had been done. At no point did the fraudster get any access to financial information or other sensitive information," eBay spokeswoman Nichola Sharpe said

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SAN JOSE and SUNNYVALE, CA, Oct. 4 /CNW/ - Yahoo!, eBay and PayPal today announced a collaborative effort to better protect consumers against fraudulent e-mails and the dangerous scams known as phishing attacks. Starting today, eBay and PayPal customers worldwide using Yahoo! Mail will have a safer e-mail experience - they will begin receiving fewer fake e-mails claiming to be sent by eBay and

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IMAGINE OUR surprise when among the dozens of phishing e-mails that arrive to our inboxes was one message that leads not to a free hosting provider but to a .GOV.CN site URL. Hackers are apparently in control of a Chinese government web server, or someone at that site is engaged in phishing Paypal accounts.The e-mail, like many others of that ilk, told us about the need to log-in due to "suspect

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eBay's security experts have determined that it's highly likely that whoever posted confidential information about its members in a company discussion forum this week stole the data via an e-mail phishing scam, an eBay spokeswoman said Thursday.The perpetrator of the data disclosure on about 1,200 eBay members didn't hack into eBay systems, spokeswoman Nichola Sharpe said in an e-mail interview,

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BESANCON, France (AFP) - A debt-ridden French shoplifter who sold stolen supermarket items on eBay is to face justice after police became suspicious about her low-priced loot, officials said Thursday. The 33-year-old woman, who is estimated to have stolen more than 85,000 euros' (120,000 dollars') worth of goods from the Leclerc store in her hometown of Doubs, eastern France, since 2005, is due

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Ebay.com reports on their blog that at some time this morning the names and contact information of some 1200 Ebay users were posted on their public "Trust and Safety" forum. The posts also appeared to contain members credit card information. The forum has been shut down while Ebay and LiveWorld (their forums vendor) take steps to remedy the situation. Ebay reports that they are now in the process

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Unauthorised prints by the anonymous graffiti artist Banksy have been sold on eBay as limited edition, signed works, by employees of the company which publishes and authenticates the artist’s works on paper, Pictures on Walls (POW). These have been stamped with a replica of the POW blindstamp and some of them carry forged signatures. The prices for the prints have then been raised by an illegal

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Tier-3, the behavoural analysis IT security specialist, has warned companies that hacker toolkits - which were previously confined to specialist hidden forums on the Internet - are now being sold openly on auction sites such as eBay."This is a serious development," said Geoff Sweeney, Tier-3's CTO, who added that, where previously would-be hackers had to score `brownie points' to gain access to

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By Ina SteinerAuctionBytes.com Many eBay sellers have disputed the legitimacy of VeRO claims regarding copyright and trademark rights. But some have also begun complaining about the legitimacy of the members themselves. They say some VeRO members do not have the rights to the intellectual property they claim, and use eBay's program to remove sellers' listings.A seller named Tom who said eBay

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Deerpark — The Deerpark police commission is investigating a police sergeant who is accused of listing department equipment for sale on eBay.Sgt. Liz Sullivan confirmed yesterday that she has been suspended with pay since Aug. 15. "I have not been told why by any Deerpark officials," said Sullivan, who declined to comment further about the matter.An outside agency informed the town that Deerpark

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The cosmetics group L'Oréal is no longer prepared to stand idly by and watch counterfeit perfume by brands such as Giorgio Armani and Lancôme being sold on the Internet auction platform eBay. According to media reports the company has reported the online auction house eBay to the police in France, Belgium, Germany, the UK and Spain. "We have noticed that the sale of counterfeit perfumes has

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A Seattle man has been sentenced to two years in prison for selling computers and cameras on eBay but never actually delivering the goods.Over a four-year period, Jordan Dias, 40, collected more than US$94,000 from victims who thought they were purchasing items from a legitimate seller, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday in a statement.source article

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Gregg Keizer, ComputerworldOnline auction site eBay has been targeted by identity thieves, who are wielding a botnet that uses brute force to uncover valid account log-in information, a Tel Aviv-based security company said Monday.The attacks against eBay Inc. may have started as long ago as early August, said Ofer Elzam. He said that he and other researchers at Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd. have

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PPR, the French conglomerate that owns Gucci, Bottega Veneta and several other luxury goods brands, is threatening legal action against Ebay if the online auction site does not crack down further on counterfeits sold on its website.In an interview with the Financial Times, François-Henri Pinault, PPR's chairman and chief executive, said that his company had been in talks with Ebay for several

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A staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force and his mother face federal charges that they stole high-grade equipment used on military helicopters and sold it overseas over the Internet.Leonard Allen Schenk, who was assigned to the 20th Special Operations Squadron at Hurlburt Field, near Mary Esther, also is charged with trying to hire an undercover agent to kill a possible prosecution witness, not

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A 20-year-old "obsessed" with defrauding customers of the internet auction site eBay has been sentenced to two years' custody.Philip Shortman, from Cwmbran, south Wales, was sent to a detention centre for another £45,000 eBay fraud in 2005.The judge at Newport Crown Court said his deception "strikes at the system" of internet trading "as a whole". In the latest fraud he was jailed for conning

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PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -- Plattsburgh police said a board member of the Clinton County Historical Association stole items from the historical museum and listed some of them on eBay.Police said the President of the Historical Association called them after a sword presented to Captain William B. Pratt in 1863 was stolen from the museum and posted on eBay.source article

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A Tolworth man jailed for Kingston's biggest ever counterfeit scam has been ordered by Kingston Crown Court to sell his flat and his car to pay back the profits of his crime. Simon Waugh, 45, was jailed for 12 months in March after building up a criminal business with a £170,000-a-year turnover by importing fake designer clothes from India and selling them as genuine on eBay. He appeared in

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LONG BEACH, Calif. -- The grungy hotel room was reeking of smoke. The bathtub was rusty. The bedspread and furnishings were dingy relics.But I couldn't leave.I'd already paid $155 in an online travel auction for the Queen Mary Hotel room -- $91 for the room, $20 commission, $24 in taxes and $20 to upgrade to a room with a window. I'd taken a risk. And lost.Online travel auctions promise fabulous

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By Paul KorzeniowskiE-Commerce Times The illegal downloading and selling of items, such as music and videos, has been widely reported and continues to be a hot potato. "Some counterfeiters are so bold that they advertise movies that have not yet been released," said Andrew Horton, product management director at MarkMonitor.The Internet has emerged as a great place to shop for someone looking for

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eBay has taken the extraordinary step of calling a press conference in Australia to discuss the problem posed by Romanian fraudsters.eBay said it was shocked to discover that many Romanian police stations, prosecutors and magistrates had never used a computer. This lack of access to cyber crime fighting tools was allowing internet crime to go unchecked.The company found law enforcement agencies

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By now, you've learned to ignore unsolicited e-mail seemingly from PayPal, eBay or other financial site telling you your account needs to be updated. PLEASE tell me you ignore these phishing messages!There's something much more sinister to be wary of: My theory is a hacker got into a major credit card database and is charging small amounts to user cards under the guise that it's a PayPal Skype

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