Re: [Thinkpad] Possible hijacked Ebay account

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kris Steenhaut" <kris.steenhaut@hccnet.nl>
To: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: <thinkpad@stderr.org>; "Michael Geary" <Mike@Geary.com>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Possible hijacked Ebay account

>
>
> Bruce Markowitz schreef:
>
> >The feedback thing is kind of strange.
> >
> You may say so.
>
> > Even in the new math 15 - 2 = 13
> >
> >
> This math has changed quite abit in the last few hours. Very strange it
> is indeed.
>
> >But it does reflect some negatives in the percent, so at least a bidder
> >should now click on it and take a look.
> >Don't be surprised to see a few more similar setups in the next day or
two,
> >there is more than one hijacked account out there.
> >
> >
> No doubt we can expect better hidden fraudulent actions. All the more as
> this looks more and more as an Ebay insider "job".
>
>
> --
> Groeten uit Gent,
>
> Kris
>

that seems a little overly conspiratory theorist to me. There are plenty of
factors that could explain it. This all obviously happened v. quickly. there
was probably someone monitoring this as it was all going on and manually
working with this. that doesn't mean they are the ones behind it, just
monitoring it. I mean this person did get booted rather quickly. the user
interaction probably helped. I bet they have triggers that are alarmed once
items hit certain numbers or something along those lines. I have to agree.
this looks very much like a case of stolen identity, the reason they'd
hijack instead of create their own is less in the way of footprints.

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Received on Mon Sep 6 20:51:38 2004