Three Charged With Fraud In eBay Art Auction

from the high-publicity-fraud dept

About a year ago we had posted a few stories about fraudulent art auction on eBay. One of the comments from a reader was that he wouldn’t be surprised if there were “shill” bidders bidding up the price on the fake painting. Turns out that’s exactly what happened, and now people have been arrested for fraud in the case.


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