Re: [Thinkpad] Possible hijacked Ebay account

alisa schreef:

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>that seems a little overly conspiratory theorist to me. There are plenty of
>factors that could explain it.
>
I don't see none. Each time a rating is done, the math changes
immediately. If it doesn't, someone having acces to the accounts is
messing around. It is as simple as that.

> This all obviously happened v. quickly.
>
As I told and as everybody should know, once a rating has been given,
the math changes in the next few seconds. It happens that 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.
>
Why do you think it's only one person?

> 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,
>
It is a case of fraudulent actions being prepared. I do agree with Bruce
here, there will be more in the next future. Better hidden alas.

> the reason they'd
>hijack instead of create their own is less in the way of footprints.
>
>
>
Mkes no difference. Creating an id in an Internetshop doesn't leave
tracable footprints at all for instance.

-- 
Groeten uit Gent,
   Kris
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