eBay Targets Romanian Scammers

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eBay Targets Romanian Scammers

06-28-2007, 08:02 AM,

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eBay Targets Romanian Scammers

Quote:Online auction site eBay has made public the details of a months-long campaign to curb online fraud arising in Romania - an effort that has resulted in several hundred arrests...

The scale of the fraud was such that eBay formed a dedicated team to look into the issue, hiring a team of analysts and lawyers to work with victims and the Romanian authorities to come up with some solutions. The team's initial assessment attributed the Romanian problem to two central issues - a technology knowledge gap and a lack of resources to tackle cybercrime. What we found is that there is a huge gap between generations in Romania, Henley said. There are 25- to 30-year-old criminals that are among some of the brightest we've ever dealt with. But law enforcement officials and magistrates might have never even used a computer....

full article: http://www.bbj.hu/main/news_28257_ebay+t...sters.html

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