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Old 27-12-2006   #1 (permalink)
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Beware of new serious security risks on e-bay.

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EBAY'S BACK DOOR WIDE OPEN & LETTING SCAMMERS IN
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There is a scammer's tool floating around the web that has been offered for sale to several ebaY users. This tool allows a scammer to access ALL user info through a utility ebaY uses to track all user information.
If you look at this link, you will see a page with ebaY seller information overlaid with the scammers SCO Helper program that allows the scammer to send second chance offers through ebaY's own system, to
potential victims who have bid on the legitimate seller's items.
http://corriganb.com/sco.jpg
It is very possible that this ebaY function is what is being used by the scammers to post the BAPE auctions, and monitor email queries, replies
and payments so they can re-route them. It is obvious that this information is readily accessible to the scammers, and that ebaY has not done anything to close the back door being used by the scammers.
For everyone wondering how scammers on ebaY manage to hijack accounts at will, this is the answer. ebaY says the scammers are getting the info due to ebaY users falling for phishing scams. conclude that it may not be an ebaY insider, but instead an outsider,
with complete access to all user account inside information.
If this is as it appears, ebaY is and has been aware of this wide open back door, and can't or won't do anything about it.
Beware that your supposedly secure information is being compromised,this would also explain why information on sales or payment invoices sometimes drags behind the real details as the information is being overlaid and corrupted by the scammers tools.
It even places a question mark on answering questions via the 'Ask seller a question' pages as this information is being tracked and going to unknown sources.
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