FW: e-bay

Fri Sep 26 18:06:22 UTC 2003

At 01:40 PM 26/09/2003, Ken Stubbs wrote:
>the scale of this fraud is, frankly, huge, but many companies like ebay &
>paypal downplay it
>to avoid tainting the legitimacy of their respective businesses

I went through the steps to report it to ebay and paypal via their web 
interface.  I got an email requesting the original message, I bounced it to 
them the same day quoting the appropriate ticket #.  A day or so later a 
human being had sent a template email saying yes, its a scam etc etc and 
that they were investigating and that was that.  2 days later, the IP is dead.

I really feel for them.  The scam site is in Korea, the email was sent via 
an open proxy on a cable modem in the US somewhere.  Big or small, I doubt 
its an easy job coordinating international law enforcement to 'whack a 
mole' essentially.  In my case, the initial IP that was in the scam  mail 
was gone 2 days after I reported it.  I dont know if that was weeks after 
someone else or if they did get it shut down in 48hrs.  But 3 days later, I 
got another email with the same scam, this time to a different provider in 
Korea.... Next.

         ---Mike 