03-23-2007, 11:07 AM
Quote:Fraudulent listings on eBay continue to pile up, and the online auctioneer appears to be incapable of proactively putting an end to them.
Since Friday, we've been typing "tour with a whore" into eBay's search engine (for purely research purposes, of course) and have been returned with dozens (in one case hundreds) of results featuring pornographic images. They are posted by established users with highly favorable feedback ratings - hallmarks of accounts that have been hijacked and then used to con unsuspecting buyers...
Some fraudulent auctions contain links that direct would-be buyers to spoofed sites that attempt to phish their eBay credentials. Others offer a special "buy-it-now" discount if the user contacts the seller via email. We wanted to know how these buy-it-now scams work, so we took the bait...
full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/21/...d_anatomy/