12-27-2006, 11:39 AM
From the AuctionGuild's email newsletter:
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EBAY'S BACK DOOR WIDE OPEN & LETTING SCAMMERS IN
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There is a scammer's tool floating around the web that has been offered
for sale to several ebaY users. This tool allows a scammer to access
ALL user info through a utility ebaY uses to track all user information.
If you look at this link, you will see a page with ebaY seller
information overlaid with the scammers SCO Helper program that allows
the scammer to send second chance offers through ebaY's own system, to
potential victims who have bid on the legitimate seller's items.
http://corriganb.com/sco.jpg
If this link goes blank, TAG has a screenshot of the page we will post
on our website.
It is very possible that this ebaY function is what is being used by the
scammers to post the BAPE auctions, and monitor email queries, replies
and payments so they can reroute them. It is obvious that this
information is readily accessible to the scammers, and that ebaY has not
done anything to close the back door being used by the scammers.
For everyone wondering how scammers on ebaY manage to hijack accounts at
will, this is the answer. ebaY says the scammers are getting the info
due to ebaY users falling for phishing scams. That explanation let ebaY
off the hook, but TAG never believed it, as it never made sense. In
light of the BAPE scams - see this article -
http://www.auctionguild.com/generic146.html
it was definitely NOT falling for a phishing scam that exposed the user
information of "Jack" or other tech savvy users who have contacted us
since, with the same story. In the article we said that it appeared to
have to be an insider with access to inside ebaY information. We now
conclude that it may not be an ebaY insider, but instead an outsider,
with complete access to all user account inside information.
If this is as it appears, ebaY is and has been aware of this wide open
back door, and can't or won't do anything about it. We will update this
on our website as more information becomes available.
Class action suit anyone?
