Re: [Thinkpad] Possible hijacked Ebay account

He is up to 40 and counting!
This fellow must have opened an account for just this purpose, because
obviously the bad guy can now give him 40 negatives.
I find that most Ebay scammers are just this obvious!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Geary" <Mike@Geary.com>
To: "'Ellis Weiner'" <eweiner@nni.com>
Cc: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 7:02 PM
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] Possible hijacked Ebay account

> > From: Ellis Weiner
> > Can I ask some touchingly stupid questions? What's so
> > obvious? I've never bought anything on Ebay (or sold it),
> > but, aside from the fact that this guy has NO feedback from
> > buyers, what's the giveaway that tells you all he's bogus?
> > I ask this so that everyone one else on the list who is too
> > embarrassed to ask, doesn't have to. Thanks, guys.
>
> Don't feel embarrassed; I always respect people who are willing to ask
> questions like this.
>
> The thing to look at is the "seller's other items":
>
>
http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=osieight
>
> With no previous selling history, this user suddenly has over two hundred
> big-ticket items for sale, all "BRAND NEW! BEST OFFER!". They are all
> one-day listings that expire within a few minutes of each other. In fact,
> many of the items expire within seconds of each other. Also, every item is
a
> private auction ("High bidder: User ID kept private"). This is done to
> prevent other eBay users from contacting the bidders to warn them about
the
> scam.
>
> A more recent clue: The thief was foolish enough to list a number of the
> items with "Buy it now", which gave one intrepid eBay user an opportunity
to
> "buy" those items with the express purpose of leaving immediate negative
> feedback:
>
> http://feedback.ebay.com/ws1/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=osieight
>
> Unfortunately, this isn't doing quite as much good as it could, because
all
> 15 of the negative feedbacks that were just posted are from the same user,
> so they only knocked down the feedback score by one point.
>
> -Mike
>
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