[Milsurplus] Re: BA Fraud on eBay

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

I received the following from eBay in response
to my report to them on this matter.

It took considerable wandering around on their
site to find a route to get a report through to
them.


73 - Mac - K2GKK/5
Oklahoma City, OK



----Original Message Follows----
From: eBay Customer Support <rswebhelp at ebay.com>
Reply-To: eBay Customer Support <rswebhelp at ebay.com>
To: D C *Mac* Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
Subject: TK91014 Your recent email to eBay's Trust and Safety Department   
(KMM244162000V43820L0KM)
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:22:11 -0800

Dear Donald,

Thank you for writing eBay in regard to the suspicious listing that you
reported.

The items recently listed with this account were the result of an
unauthorized account takeover. We were not aware of this activity until
after the listings appeared on the site.

As soon as we became aware that an unauthorized person took over this
account, we reacted immediately to resolve the problem. We are currently
in the process of restoring the account to its true owner.

If you receive an email offering to complete this sale, we strongly
encourage you not to accept the offer.

Such a purchase would take place outside of the eBay site, so it would
not be eligible for eBay services, including the eBay Purchase
Protection program. For more information, go to:

  http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/rfe-spam-non-ebay-sale.html

We also ask you to report any emails offering to sell items outside of
eBay. To do so, simply forward the email to:

  spam at ebay.com

There are a number of possible ways this account takeover might have
occurred:
- The seller may have had a simple password or password hint question
that someone could easily guess.
- A computer virus that logs and records keystrokes may have detected
the password.
- The seller could have unknowingly revealed the password to another
party.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Gael

eBay Customer Support
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Original Message Follows:
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From: D C *Mac* Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
To:      eBay Customer Support <rswebhelp at ebay.com>
Subject: IV%P10181 Offers to Buy or Sell Outside of eBay [#US L97 US
05011T 05010B ?01 -01 ]

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Subject:  IV%P10181 Offers to Buy or Sell Outside of eBay [#US L97 US
05011T 05010B ?01 -01 ]

User Feedback:  491
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  Home > Help Topics > Rules and Policies > Rules for Everyone > Offers
to Buy or Sell Outside of eBay; 162.58.0.16;

Concern with user: hallicraftersman 250  !33332! 041898

Item # involved: 250079334633 $US


Supporting email from member:


Customer concern:

There are three other auctions shown that appear to be
attempts to hijack this one.  The other auction numbers are:
200076360895, 170078305089, and 230088323467.

These supposed auctions purport to be from sellers pjmaxted,
frequent-flyer, and rosentonis-wonderland.  They appear to be
identical and request direct purchase with email address of
salesmalon001 at gmail.com.  It appears  that these three
auctions are attempted hijackings by the person using the
email above of auction 250079334633 by hallicraftersman.