Crooks are using bots to create bogus eBay accounts with trustworthy feedback

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Crooks are using bots to create bogus eBay accounts with trustworthy feedback

08-01-2006, 07:43 AM,

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Crooks are using bots to create bogus eBay accounts with trustworthy feedback

Quote:Scammers are using bots to create bogus eBay accounts that boast trustworthy profiles in a new scheme to rip off buyers...

...the racket uses a bot to create a large number of fake accounts, then applies a spider to scavenge eBay for 1-cent "Buy Now" items, then purchase them...

Ironically, most sellers of one-cent items also use bots...that automatically e-mails the purchase to the buyer, then posts a standard, and positive, feedback on the buyer's profile.

It's the sales history, and more important, the positive feedback, that the cyber crooks are after.

"Once they have 15 or 20 feedback items, they can use that account to set up bogus auction...

full article: http://www.informationweek.com/news/show...=191600767&subSection=Breaking+News

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