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2007-10-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

"I bought this jeep on eBay and got scammed please help"

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-10-19 02:38|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Very innardstesting, Sea. Reading through half the article has persuaded me to randomize my passwords and stop using my computer's administrative user account.

This article also confirms my belief that these sort of scammers should be faced with international extradition, massive hard-time jail sentences and confiscation of assets when apprehended. These scumbags are not just predatory but also the one's most prone to really screw up a person's computer.

Sites that install malware and spyware must be forced by law to have a click-through that unmistakably announces the site's intention of installing such software on your computer. Anyone who violates such a law should be subjected to massive financial penalties and hard jail time.

This sort of crap is really reducing the quality of people's computing experience and retarding the development of an honorable Internet economy. The benefits to our world of a functioning Internet economy are so huge that all countries need to band together on this with mutual extradition pacts and similar agreements.

Countries whose governments benefit from such nefarious activities need to be cut off from the Internet and be subjected to destructive haxing. We cannot afford to have something so important as the Internet being disrupted by a small community of unethical criminal users.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-19 04:47|| 2007-10-19 04:47|| Front Page Top

#2 How do we know this is the real Rantburg we are posting on? Maybe it is a spoof page designed to hurl our snarks into the endless void of cyberspace, never to be heard from again.

Posted by Gluting Fillmore1934 2007-10-19 05:05|| 2007-10-19 05:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe it is a spoof page designed to hurl our snarks into the endless void of cyberspace, never to be heard from again.

pooplisting 101

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-19 06:18|| 2007-10-19 06:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Stuff like the eBay scams and spoofs can and do happen on other internet commerce sites as well. I used to be able to easily recognize the spoofs just by the syntax or style, but no more. In many cases I can't even tell from the embedded link names. So I don't do e-commerce any more. I feel guilty freeloading here on the 'burg, but I don't do PayPal (I've offered and would send a check if I had a place to send it.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-10-19 07:25|| 2007-10-19 07:25|| Front Page Top

#5 someone scammed my ebay account and bought a car in Australia, I talked with the Aussie and said he understood, thank god it was an Aussie!Pay Pal and E-Bay pretty much suck and should be held responsible for these kinds of scams until they can correct the problem

Posted by Gleamble Bonaparte1352 2007-10-19 09:32|| 2007-10-19 09:32|| Front Page Top

#6 If somebody bought a car, then where was it delivered ? If to you, then the car seller may be the scammer.

Posted by wxjames 2007-10-19 10:19|| 2007-10-19 10:19|| Front Page Top

#7 A point I forgot to make is that eBay is sort of its own little hacker/cracker factory; lurk at Trust and Safety long enough and you can see these things evolve almost in real time. It might not be a bad idea for the Fibbies or the spooks to detail someone to check in there from time to time.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-10-19 10:50|| 2007-10-19 10:50|| Front Page Top

#8 The car wasnt delivered but the bill appeared on my Pay Pal account and had to be cleared by me and the Aussie seller as frauulent

Posted by Glamble Bonapart 1352 2007-10-19 11:16|| 2007-10-19 11:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Now about that nice bridge I have for sale in Brooklyn....

Posted by 3dc 2007-10-19 12:52|| 2007-10-19 12:52|| Front Page Top

#10 (I've offered and would send a check if I had a place to send it.)

Glenmore, please go to the main page and scroll down to the yellow box on the right-hand side. The second link is to Fred's email. A polite request for a snail mail address will usually result in a nice missive from Herr Fearless Leader. Fred needs all of our help as much as possible right now. Please give often and early.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-19 14:29|| 2007-10-19 14:29|| Front Page Top

#11 #10 Zen - too true. Thanks to someone mentioning that Fred get paid (probably very little) when people go to Amazon through his link, I clicked on his link today to buy books instead of using the link in my Favorites as I normally would.

Too bad he doesn't get a percentage of what I paid....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-10-19 15:35|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-10-19 15:35|| Front Page Top

#12 He's lucky it was a car. He could have been scammed and ended up with Belgium.

Posted by DoDo 2007-10-19 17:20|| 2007-10-19 17:20|| Front Page Top

#13 LOL!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-10-19 19:06|| 2007-10-19 19:06|| Front Page Top

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