Re: [Thinkpad] Possible hijacked Ebay account

For example, American Express made a total turnaround on disputes
through PayPal.

A while back (2001-2002), they looked the other way. Now, they go to
bat for the cardholder, and take on PayPal.

Big change, big improvement.

- Bob

Bruce Markowitz wrote:

>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
>
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>
>>----- 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
>>
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>>>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,
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>>
>>>>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
>>
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>of
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>>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
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>>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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