08-28-2006, 10:21 AM
Quote:As many as 300 complaints of eBay-related fraud are streaming into Chicago from out-of-state victims who are losing millions of dollars in the scams, law enforcement sources said...
Criminal organizations controlled by Romanians and other Eastern Europeans seem to be behind much of the fraud in Chicago, sources said. Their cells appear to be concentrated on the city's North Side...
Chicago has become one of the hubs for eBay scams over the past few years, sources said.
Drug addicts and recent immigrants are recruited as bagmen to pick up Western Union money transfers to Chicago from out of state, sources said...
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