When the hackers and crooks can hijack ebay listings, overlay them with fraudulent links that redirect to dummy cover sites that allow crooks to rip people off for #20K I would and I would say reasonably so, conclude that ebay has a security problem. Not having seen the ad in this case I'm making a presumption based on previous experience involving a TR4 (this month)..in which the hackers placed a fraudulent Buy it Now patch over a legitimate add that redirected inquiries/offers to a non ebay page that looked like the real thing. That's how the hell I connect the dots or in this case the ones and the zeros. It is the weakness in ebay security that allows this to happen. On Dec 4, 2007, at 6:30 PM, Loren Busch wrote: > RE: E Bay is fast becoming a place to avoid IMHO. > Their security is degrading rapidly as the hackers and crooks get > more clever. > > Pardon me but how the hell do you connect the acts of a crook with > the security provided by eBay?? Your statement contradicts itself > directly. You claim eBays security is degrading but then say that > the problem is hackers and crooks. Which is the problem, eBays > security or hackers and crooks? There is absolutely no connection > between the two except the hackers and crooks are trying to take > advantage of the existence of eBay. |
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