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eBay faces up to online fraud: Admits Extreme Growth in Account Hijackings
12-16-2005, 12:15 PM,
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eBay faces up to online fraud: Admits Extreme Growth in Account Hijackings
Quote:The online auctioneer eBay has admitted an "extreme growth" in the number of personal accounts being hijacked by fraudsters.

Criminals are obtaining the secret passwords of eBay subscribers and using their sites to conduct bogus auctions for non-existent goods.

In a growing number of cases, would-be buyers on the UK's most used website are paying thousands of pounds to apparently reputable sellers after winning auctions on the site - only to find out they had been dealing with criminals.

full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4533154.stm
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12-16-2005, 12:35 PM,
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Re: eBay faces up to online fraud: Admits Extreme Growth in Account Hijackings
Well, duh.

Since they're willing to perjure themselves in order to protect a hacker in a criminal investigation,  I'm thinking eBay is the place to go if you want to commit internet crimes.  I imagine the criminals have figured this one out as well.
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12-16-2005, 02:45 PM,
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Re: eBay faces up to online fraud: Admits Extreme Growth in Account Hijackings
Yes and now the hacker criminals can make the hacked eBay account a "Business type"
with a click of a mouse. Adding MORE credibility to their scam.

Now Available: Register as a Business
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.php/topic,1744.from1134725146/topicseen.html#msg6145


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NOT really funny to those who have been effected I imagine. :Smile
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12-17-2005, 11:32 AM,
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Re: eBay faces up to online fraud: Admits Extreme Growth in Account Hijackings
An article about the BBC story:
http://news.designtechnica.com/article9083.html

eBay users and employees discuss the BBC story:
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?m...1002904165&forumID=107&x#1002904165
Al draagt een aap een gouden ring, het is en blijft een lelijk ding
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12-17-2005, 02:45 PM,
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Thanks for posting that eBay board thread!  I had to go throw in my two cents.  Tongue2

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12-19-2005, 02:51 AM,
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EBay blames users for fraud, Calls Account Hijackings an "off ebay issue"
The BBC changed the name of their article to: "EBay blames users for fraud" .eBay is now saying that all account hijackings are due to users clicking on links in phishing emails and that it is therefore an "off ebay issue"

Some quotes from eBay UK's head of Trust & Safety (the same brainless idiot who recently considered hiring a convicted eBay scammer):

Quote:EBay blames it account holders for not installing proper security on their home computers and for replying to so called phishing emails...

Describing it as an "off eBay issue", Mr Griffiths said "we have told people again and again".

"It is nothing really to do with us. We provide you with tools to help yourself."

When asked whether eBay's own computer could have been compromised, Mr Griffiths insisted that eBay's "systems are completely robust".


Quote:North Yorkshire Trading Standards says eBay can take up to two months to provide the names and addresses of suspects it is pursuing.

eBay's US systems are particularly robust: malware directly on item listing pages ON the ebay site, users able to see other users account info.  Very robust indeed...a hacker/criminal couldn't ask for a better Christmas present  Happy001
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"

"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site.
best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011
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Merry Christmans to ALL hackers....
And to all. A good...    :blinkie:

Well what ever hackers do...
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12-19-2005, 03:50 AM,
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Re: eBay faces up to online fraud: Admits Extreme Growth in Account Hijackings
The BBC changed the name of their article to: "EBay blames users for fraud" .eBay is now saying that all account hijackings are due to users clicking on links in phishing emails and that it is therefore an "off ebay issue"

Lying Sack of Sh*t B*stards
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Re: eBay faces up to online fraud: Admits Extreme Growth in Account Hijackings
Quote:Lying Sack of Sh*t B*stards

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"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"

"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site.
best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011
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12-21-2005, 08:56 PM,
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Re: eBay faces up to online fraud: Admits Extreme Growth in Account Hijackings
I lost count of how freakin' many times I had some T&S *helper* asking me if I'd replied to a suspicious email. 
HELLO.  If I'd GIVEN my hacker my password, there wouldn't have been 308 failed attempts to access my account.  There'd have been ONE successful attempt.  That concept seemed to evade them.

Of course, I am sure that mine is the ONLY account in ALL of eBay-dom that has EVER had someone attempt to hack it.    Smileykoolaid

Lying Sack of Sh*t B*stards

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