eBay Fraud Gets Worse

from the sneaky-criminals dept

A NY Times article (not all that different than other recent articles) about how eBay criminals are getting more sophisticated in how they trick people out of their money. They talk about scam artists who build up fake positive ratings for a few months before putting in place their big scam. There’s also been an increase in eBay identity theft, where someone with great eBay ratings will have their password stolen, and suddenly will be auctioning off high priced items and requesting money be sent to the Ukraine…


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