Re: [Thinkpad] Possible hijacked Ebay account

EXACTLY
I hope this guy did not use the same password for his PayPal account. They
could have cleaned out his bank account.
And Kris, PayPal is the SAFEST way for a buyer to buy - you can dispute the
credit card, AND you can dispute PayPal, which NOW responds rather well and
quickly to disputes, since they got their rear ends sued off.
----- Original Message -----
From: "alisa" <growlltigereatsabug@yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Kris Steenhaut" <kris.steenhaut@hccnet.nl>; "Bruce Markowitz"
<scosgt@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: <thinkpad@stderr.org>; "Michael Geary" <Mike@Geary.com>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 8:53 PM
Subject: 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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