eBay Fraud Scams exposed

AuctionBytes reported this new incentive eBay is giving to unhappy Buyers. eBay made another brilliant decision: if a buyer complains or gives low ratings to a seller, give ‘em a discount coupon. While the intentions of eBay management may be good, the fallout danger of abuse by dishonest buyers is worth considering. If an unscrupulous buyer knows that eBay will send them a coupon worth of $100 or $200 or more just because they gave a seller negative rating or low DSR ratings, some buyers may abuse this and give undeserved ratings to sellers in hopes of obtaining such coupon.

Check out the original article on AuctionBytes eBay Gives Buyers an Incentive to Complain

And, oh, btw.. did you notice that the first link in the AuctionBytes article linking the original post on eBay forums was already deleted by eBay censors? We get the famous The specified topic [2000539507] was not found. Perhaps another ACCIDENT BY EBAY CENSORS.

eBay censorship reminds me of China Censoring Tibet News

!Everyone knows that eBay permits dangerous flash vulnerability scripts directly on it’s auctions which let account hackers and hijackers extract your login and password if you simply browse ebay auctions. These hijacked logins and passwords then get sold to eBay fraudsters who login as you and upload fake auctions to fleece unsuspecting eBay buyers into wiring money for a super deal item that will never arrive. Here is a tiny sample of Powersellers just hijacked by those scammers - see eBay buyers being conned on eBay right now. The sellers are innocent, they do not know they have been hijacked. It’s eBay management who refuses to secure their own venue.

hijacked powerseller sportsc( 3110 Feedback score) : note this is a scammers’ trademark where they ask eBay buyers to contact them to free email address: NOTE: To be able to bid on this auction you must contact the seller first: jnestoc@aol.com The seller have the right to allow bidders on this auction . Members who place a bid without contacting the seller will be directly reported to eBay. Scam auction 2005 TREK 5.9 MADONE 52cm LIKE NEW This poor powerseller has a few hundred scam auctions uploaded to his account.

hijacked eBay seller james4laura( 172 Feedback score) again, see the scammer this time with email address csell28@aol.com asking eBay users to contact him to his free disposable email address linked from free image server at hi5

This poor seller also has a number of fake eBay items uploaded to their account without their knowledge, here is a screenshot of one of them” Scam Auction on Hijacked Seller Arp Odyssey II Model 2813 Synth

And the scammer is uploading more auctions on this hijacked seller, here is a screenshot of auction list at the moment

Hijacked eBay seller james4laura

When the scammers run out of powerseller logins, they have no problem listing on new logins, like this notorious hijacker that loves to list on eBay his Fake eBay auction: 2 Pioneer CDJ-1000 MK3 CD Players & 1 DJM-800 Mixer. You can take a looks at his album of his Scam images with email addresses to insert into fake eBay auctions on seller accounts he hijacked.

The Pioneer CDJ-1000 MK3 CD Player is such a favorite of this eBay scammer, you can see several auctions per day on different hijacked seller accounts, like this screenshot  of  Scam Auction on eBay for Pioneer CDJ-1000 MK3 CD Player on a hijacked seller ID marbiwi where the scammer uploaded 40 fake auctions on hijacked eBay seller just 2 minutes ago.  We have the eBay hijackers trademark signature in each auction: This auction is for 1 DJ equipment ! If you want to buy directly contact me in my email because i have other 5 equipments available for sale: cofield023@gmail.com

Just  as soon as eBay deletes scam auctions from above hijacked sellers, the hackers dip into their cache of hijacked eBay user Id’s and upload auctions to more hijacked sellers.  Note we are only tracking one or max two hijackers… The scammers claim that there are hundreds of them on eBay making very good living.  Here are some snapshots of current hijacked sellers:

• hijjacked eBay seller  jnjsofl with bunch of fake auc tions like this one 2-pioneer-cdj-1000-mk3-cd-players-1-djm-800-mixer uploaded to his account, this time the scam eBay signature is “Email me right now and you can BUY IT NOW for a very low price including FREE SHIPPING!
  BUY IT NOW PRICE: $1299
  Before you BID please contact me first at: BIZ.KASTOR@GMAIL.COM
• and the same scammer hijacked eBay seller ID huy1930 and uploaded scam auctions like this one scam auction, scam email address scofield023@gmail.com 2 Pioneer CDJ-1000 MK3 CD Players & 1 DJM-800 Mixer - and this fraudster is using insert image from here to try to avoid detection fy fraud filters.

A month ago eBay stated there was a experiment or glitch on their site where it brought a few hundred thousand listings, albeit eBay claims 5,000 or 35,000 listings onto eBay site which were not real listings.  You could not buy anything on these listings, they were just there to be counted.  eBay promptly anounced the glitch listings have been removed.  Well since then we have been watching this eBay vendor

 http://search.express.ebay.com/merchant/sdc_prod_9124_14

Today’s Items for Sale From: TheNerds, Inc aka sdc_prod_9124_14  : ITEMS FOR SALE TODAY 141,161 matches found

Screenshort Feedback Merchant Profile The Nerds, Inc on eBay Express

Screemshot eBay Express- Items for Sale by TheNerds

Screenshot of  One of the 141,000 items that you cannot buy although it appears Active Listing

If you click on the above link, you will see although there are over 140,000 items listed today you cannot purchase a single one.  If you click on any item TheNerds shows for sale, the detail listing screen will show you this item is no longer for sale.  So you cannot buy anything from this vendor on eBay and we have been spot checking for the duration of the month and have screenshots but this vendor receives feedback btw… their 96% feedback is shamefull according to eBay standards….. 

If this is a glitch, it is a persistent one.  If this is an effort by eBay to inflate their listing numbers to pacify Wall Street, that would be a shame.

This Blogger published list of thousands compromised eBay user logins and passwords that was found online for anyone to see. Go to their blog and you can check if your eBay Login has been hacked. To find the database with hacked logins, just scroll down in the list of posts, find March 15th posts and jump in to the sections that are presented alphabetically with groups of compromised eBay IDs.

We have saved the complete list so if iBay manages to threaten the blog owner into deleting those pages we can republish so the victims of UNSAFE eBay can protect themselves. Shame on eBay.

While eBay refuses to secure it’s own site the professional hackers continue posting XSS flash auctions which will extract your eBay login and password : directly on eBay site if your browser has flash and javascript enabled. So once your login and password gets into hands of professional hackers, what happens next? Your eBay login will get used in the following manner: If you have selling enabled on your eBay account, the hacker will then login as you and post a bunch of fake auctions, requesting unsuspecting buyers to contact him at some gmail/hotmail/aol/msn or other free disposable email address. Those auctions will be for expensive high end item which normally sells for high dollar value and the scammer will offer this item for about 30% of going rate.

Here is an example of such hijacked seller account auction with all tell-tell signs that the poor eBayer has been phished and now instead of book listings you see scammers repertoire of high end items asking you to email him to his gmail address so you can have those items for only $1000… let’s take a look at this Apple MacBook Pro listed in Books/Antiquarian Category on eBay on Hijacked / Phished PowerSeller account from Germany

There are currently 83 fake scam auctions listed on this Hijacked Seller account on eBay - see link to the hijacked seller auctions by hacker on this hacked eBay account : ebay-seller-ensabel-antiquarian-collectible-dvd-hd-dvd-blu-ray-items-on-ebay.gif

Once buyers contact the scammer in his gmail address, the scammer will tell them some story why he is giving away the expensive item at such a low price, divorce, tuition, cousin works at the factory…. and will ask the victim for their ebay login name, full name and address so he can prepare a fake eBay invoice and email this fake invoice with eBay logos pretending this invoice came directly from eBay, recommending a wire transfer cash payment to Romania or Spain or UK as a safe method, assuring satisfaction guarantee and free shipping.  If the buyer/victim wires the money, they will never hear from the scammer again.  Bu this time the hijacked seller already discovered his account login and password have been compromised, reported it to eBay, eBay will remove the auction (check it out:  when you try to access the auction we have provided screen shot - here is a link to eBay listing:  you will find that it was removed, this makes it impossible for a victim to document to the law enforcement such auction even existed or that the auction was on a credible eBay seller account with good feedback …..eBay will then  pretend this scam never happened on it’s site.  If the victim who wired the money comes seeking assistance from eBay, eBay will not offer any, as there was no auction and the instructions that the victim received, although they looked like official eBay invoice with eBay payment instructions, they were just a fake invoice cleverly constructed to look like eBay sent it.

According to Spiegel article from yesterday translated by Google

eBay is aware that professional hackers are harvesting your eBay user infornation including your eBay username, password, bank info, partial credit card number and expiration date as well as your secret question. eBay has been made aware of this issue by one of it’s users faller-internet.de who describes the eBay flash XSS vulnerability in detail here

Each logged-in eBay member, on who’s computer the Flash plugin is installed, and who has allowed JavaScript, can become victim of this security vulnerability. The test showed that data scripting is possible completely unrecognized by the victim. And so the view into the personal sphere of „My eBay” works:
The criminal lists a rather prominent item on eBay, with a specially prepared Flash animation embedded into the item description. If a logged-in user visits this page his browser loads the malicious code of the scammer. This contains JavaScript which sends the eBay cookies of the user to the criminal. This import of external codes is already known since years as Cross Site Scripting (XSS).
As the Flash file is executed only on the computer of the victim user, eBay is unable to check the listing on prohibited JavaScript executables. eBay members can protect theirselves by generally disabling JavaScript in their browser, however, in that case the use of normal eBay pages is heavily influenced, important functions will not work without JavaScript

Here are the screenshots from Spiegel when Spiegel employee went to eBay :

This is how your private and financial information gets extracted by hackers by simply accessing some auctions on eBay (click thumbnail to see full size image)

1. EBay Home: A SPIEGEL ONLINE employee logs with his eBay account, then continues
2. … For the demonstration of the vulnerability of prepared Auction Site eBay. Here is a flash element of an external server embedded - not recognizable with naked eye, this flash element extracts your private information. This element is embedded flash …
3. … Reads personal data of the user logged into eBay, worse yet: It tries to pass on this user data via this vulnerability to a real looking page login dialog on hackers’ server.
4. … It ceases only when the page information is retrieved: Whatever it enters the login credentials into the fake eBay login form, it then sends the login info to the to an external (hacker’s) server. There could …
5. … Cyber-crooks extract data from the visitors browsing its auction site and manage bidders: eBay login name and password of bidders and all (even visitors to the auction site, who have not bid, but were logged!) The e-mail address, List of search-favourites, the address and the name of the subject - the ideal material for perfect phishing emails to use… Look at the screen shot: it offers glimpse of your login, password , eBay secret question, banking and credit card info.

eBay spokeswoman Maike Fuest was quoted in the Spiegle Article: “It is possible, on active content such as Flash and Javascript in auction descriptions to have a malicious content.” …
EBay allows sellers only a limited active flash contentWhy then eBay permits such dangerous content is it’s auctions and listings?

Fuest: “That would contradict eBay culture. We want our vendors to have a certin creative freedom in the design of their auctions” “EBay uses a different way to reduce the risk of malicious content in active listings. Since September 2005, only some, especially those active trusted members are allowed this content in their item descriptions. ”

It appears that user security is second to profiteering on eBay. Although eBay has been aware of this vulnerability on their own site for months now, eBay spokespeople reiterate eBay’s management position that giving a vendor a freedom to publish razzle dazzle flash auction is more important that few thousand or tens of thousands? of user logins , confidential financial information and credentials being phished out by cyber criminals directly on eBay site in it’s listings. This is a clear example of eBay placing it’s own profits over user safety. eBay knowingly allows phishing attacks by eBay hackers directly on their own auction listings. eBay users credentials are being offered by eBay to the hackers so eBay’s vendor auctions will look flashier so eBay can collect more fees for sold items.

REFERENCES:

• AuctionBytes Article published today: Watchdog Group Gives Live Demo of eBay Security Vulnerability
  By Ina & David Steiner
• Speigel Online Article original Text in German
  
• falle-internet.de Original article exposing eBay’s XSS flash vulnerability: My view into „your eBay” - the eBay XSS flash exploit.
• German Forum where users report Hijacked Seller account real time, so if you wanted to see some sellers currently being phished and fake auctions published on their Seller Accounts, take a look here.

Seller Hijackings continue to plaque eBay for years now.  A quick check this morning uncovers another hijacked seller with a fake item posted for auction by this Romanian Hacker:

Screenshot of the fake auction on Hijacked seller account

The scammer maintains a photo album on a free image hosting site:  Here is a LINK TO SCAMMERS PHOTO ALBUM 

eBay warns of Romanian phishing threat ZDNet Asia, Asia - Online auction site eBay has hit out at the lack of interest in cybercrime enforcement in countries including Romania, warning that not enough is being done to stop fraudsters targeting auction sites. Along with Romania, China and Russia were also pinpointed as the source of the majority of phishing e-mail messages targeting eBay users for personal and account details. Mark Lee, trust and safety manager for eBay U.K., blamed the fact there was “no fear of real punishment” in the countries and highlighted the particular scale of the problem in Romania. He said: “These attacks are definitely organized. There are towns in Romania where the entire focus is on sites like eBay as the main source of income.” Last June eBay revealed details of a three-year long campaign to curb online fraud by criminals in Romania–leading to several hundred arrests. . …

Why not make a Security Key mandatory for any seller who wants to sell more than 2 items simultaneously at a given time? We have mentioned this over and over and over again. If sellers of multi items had to use the equivalent of the PayPal security key to post multiple auctions…. the hackers who hijacked seller account would not be able to abuse hijacked seller account except posting one or two auctions without the security key.
More info on the Security Key here

Let’s meet a Romanian Scammer

feel free to download and use this image just right click on it and save to your computer

As highlighted in the past post here, eBay spokesman said regarding censored eBay forum posts on the subject eBay padding their listings: A comment on a Tuesday Appscout post suggested that forum posts critical of eBay’s policies had been deleted.EBay denied that any forum deletions were intentional. If any posts were taken down “it was accidental,” the spokesman said. “We’re not afraid of hearing from our community and allowing them to post and discuss things and be angry on our boards” Ebay must be having another case of accidentitis on their forums as more and more critical posts are dissappearing.

This post from one of eBays largest powersellers titled

I have sold 300,000 eBay items but am quitting completely!

is now deleted by eBay censors: here is a link to the original post:

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=2000529608&tstart=0&mod=1204856790666

if you click on it, you will get : The specified topic [2000529608] was not found.

My guess would be eBay is totally paranoid about seller exodus and when one of the largest power sellers calls it quits and announces it on eBay’s own Seller Discussion Forum, someone is shaking in their booties, thinking this might encourage other sellers to move away. So deleting the post and pretending it never happened is the eBay way! I am sure this incident will never make it to the mainstream media and if it does, it will be declared another accident/test/glitch.

Again, Google is our friend and we have screenshots of the censored out post that eBay deleted by accident, check out what eBay did not want you to see.

screenshot of I have sold 300,000 eBay items but am quitting completely! deleted thread by eBay censors

If we can find these hijacked Power Sellers on eBay easily, why can’t eBay? A quick spot check this morning finds another eBay Power Seller hijacked and one of the Romanian eBay scammers listing fake items, his usual favorites to list are

PC Magazine published their article on the eBay inflating listings on their site: eBay padding listings on their site

It’s a good summary of what was happening over the past weekend. The most interesting part of that article however is they way eBay spokespersons explained this test/bug/glitch/accident/incompetence. Here is a short digest of that:

EBay on Tuesday admitted that a “bug” in its system had accidentally placed listings from eBay-owned shopping.com onto eBay.com late Friday night.

The bug was related to the gallery feature that allows users to place a small photo of their item on the initial search returns page, a spokesman said. EBay traditionally charged 35 cents to include a gallery photo, but as part of the policy changes that went into effect February 20, they are now free of charge.

However, “the code actually rolled out three hours late, so there were a certain number of listings … that didn’t get gallery free, so we were going back and fixing that” on Friday, the spokesman said. “What happened was, when we wrote the code to implement that fix in the database table, there was a string that was left on there that populated and sent shopping.com listings onto ebay.com that it shouldn’t have.”

Approximately 5,000 listings were pulled from shopping.com, but they have since been removed, according to eBay.

Sellers pointed to the listings snafu as evidence that eBay was inflating its numbers to make up for losses sustained during the boycott. When the bug first emerged on Friday, the spokesman told a reporter that it was actually a planned test.

“But it wasn’t a test. It ended up being a bug,” he said. “So I ate a little bit of crow on that.”

….

A comment on a Tuesday Appscout post suggested that forum posts critical of eBay’s policies had been deleted.

EBay denied that any forum deletions were intentional. If any posts were taken down “it was accidental,” the spokesman said. “We’re not afraid of hearing from our community and allowing them to post and discuss things and be angry on our boards”

AuctionBytes further reported Lieberman said fewer than 35,000 listings were affected by the glitch.

However, he had no explanation for the fact that when AuctionBytes looked at one Shopping.com selling account on Saturday morning, it indicated the seller had over 80,000 listings on eBay.com. One seller claimed on Saturday that he had captured screenshots that showed there were many more Shopping.com listings on eBay.

Lieberman said eBay has always been conservative without a hint of financial scandal in its life. eBay reports the number of registered users and number of listings to the SEC on a quarterly basis. Of the accusations of listing count manipulation, Lieberman said, “To think that we’d do that now is outrageous.”

It appears that

eBay lied about the cause of the mystery listings, first t was a test, then it was a bug….

eBay lied about how many listings were affected in this incident: first if was 5,000 now it is 35,000 while there are screenshots showing hundreds of thousands of listings.

eBay lied about censoring MANY forum posts calling this an accident…. how do you delete multiple threads on this subject by accident? As this eBay user indicated here: Boy ebay sure has a lot of “glitches” and “If any posts were taken down “it was accidental,”. Rbay sure has a lot of “accidents” lately. “We’re not afraid of hearing from our community and allowing them to post and discuss things and be angry on our boards.” Another lie from ebay, the comment below was posted my me on there forum it was pulled, so I re-posed it, Censored out idiot, and John Donhole, I more then made sure it did not violate any of ebay’s “polices” and they still pulled it a second time. Screw you ebay, I started taking my business to Amazon back in July of 2006 when you pulled your stunt with the ebay stores, you did not learn then and I know you will not learn not, put all the spins on things you want, lets see you fix the “bad Press” that you have gotten, let’s see how soon you get my $88.00 plus per month business back, stock holders are you reading this.

“Somewhere in this world a village is missing it’s idiot, if they look for him they can find him on ebay, he’s the guy running the company John Donhole”

eBay lied about when the listing glitch happened. According to eBay this was a glitch/test/bug that surfaced on the weekend of March 1st and 2nd: so why are listings on this screenshot dated 2/22/2008 ?

It appears that there are plenty of Videos documenting the usual eBay PR lies.

 Update 3/17/2008 This Event Horizon Blog Has an eccellent compilation of  The eBay SDC_PROD Affair

AuctionBytes Blog

eBay Expands SMI to All Auction-Style Listings AuctionBytes Blog, MA - 9 hours ago This is part of our overall commitment to making a material difference to tackling online fraud on eBay. As eBay continues to grow into a global online …

Many buyers object to hiding other bidders’ IDs as it became close to impossible to distinguish if there is shill bidding going on … eBay says they have measures in place to detect shill bidding activity but eBay’s track record on protecting it’s customers  from fraud is less then stellar!  I would rather rely on my own analisys than eBay’s fraud protection.

While writing yesterday’s post, the YouTube video capturing eBay censorship at it’s finest piqued my interest.

If the hundreds of thousands listings you cannot Buy Now or Bid on on eBay site are just an innocent mistake / glitch or have a legitimate reason to be there, why would eBay moderators be so diligent in removing posts from their forums discussing these? Although the eBay forum thread has been removed by eBay Moderators, Google cache still has some of the posts so we have taken screen shots of those and saved them here - anyone is welcome to them.

Here is a link to the Forum Post that was deleted by eBay censors.

Here are links to screenshots of the forum pages that were deleted… thanks to Google Cache….  Click on the smaller thumbnails to see full size screenshots of the forum posts, so you can read what eBay did not want you to see

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In hindsight of recent eBay strike that took place from 2/18 to 2/25 there has been a lot of buzz amongst eBayers that eBay is using dirty tactics to pad their listing numbers in order to minimize impact of the strike on it’s listing numbers. Today the Blogs and eBay Finance forums and eBay Seller forums are buzzing with examples of mysterious listings of items on which you cannot bid or which you cannot buy. These number in tens of thousands on seller accounts that were located today. We took some screenshots for the record.

eBay seller stc_prod_434012 auction snapshot

eBay seller sdc_prod_301013 auctions count snapshot

one of the items listed by seller sdc_prod_301013

Transaction Blocked screen if you try to bid on any items listed by sdc_prod_301013

Lot of these “seller” accounts have a prefix sdc_ which is an abbreviation for ShopingDotCom, an eBay property.

One poster on eBay Seller Forum took time to track some of them down and offered this summary:

Here is a list of Ids we found last night and the ebay express Id they are connected to.

sdc_prod_434012 = SpectrumSuperStore
sdc_prod_9021_2 = Buy.com (who is NARU!)
sdc_prod_9124_14 = TheNerds, Inc.
sdc_prod_9452 = eTronics, Inc.
sdc_prod_409455_97 = Sababa Shopping
sdc_prod_9090 = CompSource Inc.
sdc_prod_310426 = ANTOnline (who is NARU!)
sdc_prod_9074_35 = pcRUSH.com (who is NARU!)
sdc_prod_9352_67 = Digital Foto Club
sdc_prod_301013_74 = The Twister Group
sdc_prod_305839_99 = BargainBasementBatterie

Some still have auctions running. At last count it was a total of 280,000 auction listings that could not be bidded on. All had “sdc_prod” in the seller ID

I notice a couple more post here since I took my nap. so the total grows.
Most of the auctions had dutch auctions so the actual Total # of auctions is in the millions.

Another user said:

Looks like they are removing the listings, however they are being replaced just as quickly with new ones… try this: Go to the categories page… pick a category, say consumer electronics, then pick a sub category. Sort by “Time ending soonest” and scroll to the bottom of the page. It will say “Page 1 of 400″ or whatever. Go to the last page by typing the page number in the box in the lower right corner of the page. This is where they are hiding them. Because the have no end time, the always stay at the back of the real listings and never move forward. They are in just about every category I checked. And there are who knows how many of these SDC seller IDs, hundreds, even thousands, all with thousands of listings. There could be millions of these listings all included in the auction counts. If Wall Street uses these counts to rate ebay, then this might be interesting to the SEC or the FTC.

More interesting info on this Blog take a look at the transcript with the eBay Live Chat rep there.

It this is just a glitch and some programmer promoted bad code to production environment, so be it (bad for eBay at any rate, one would think that a company with 5 Billion Dollars in cash could afford better quality of personnel and a test server paired with quality control… ).

If this is a glitch and not some sort of intentional money business with auction counts, why would eBay censorship delete posts about this issue on it’s own forums? You can see posts being deleted in real time in this video on YouTube.

Update: 3/4/2008 AuctionBytes reported that eBay’s Usher Lieberman during the IMA conference on Monday said he had made a mistake when he called the Shopping.com listings a test on Saturday morning. He was trying to track it down and after talking to a few people, felt comfortable saying it was a test, and subsequently found out the listings had appeared accidentally. Usher said it was his fault for initially getting it wrong. AuctionBytes asked Usher if he could tell them more, and he could not. “Lots of things are on the table,” he said

eBAY FRAUD filters work on text based method.  eBay’s Fraud Bot scans auctions for words used by professional eBay scammers and chooses suspect auctions.  Account hijackers use a simple kiddie way to sail through eBay’s million dollar fraud system by simply creating image inserted into fake auctions on hijacked seller accounts with their call to the unsuspecting eBay buyer to lure them off eBay.

How many legitimate seller accounts are hijacked at any given time?  Our guess is thousands!  A short search this morning revealed 3 seller accounts being hijacked right this minute by a single eBay hijacker.  Here are screenshots of the 3 distinct eBay seller accounts being hijacked right this minute with fake auctions published on eBay.

Seller Antonello789 from Italy - Hacked and Hijacked

Seller Johnnyp5789 Hacked and Hijacked

Seller dhonaro - Hacked and Hijacked

 Hey, eBay security “managers”, how about OCR software?  Or is that newfinangled OCR technology too expensive for you to protect unsuspecting buyers and secure the “venue”… perhaps there is not enough funds left in your 5 billiondollar cash reserves to care about fraudsters fleecing eBay buyers daily?  Or how about making PayPal KeyFob mandatory  for any seller who needs to list more than 3 items at a time?  It’s only $5 to acquire and it would surely stop the Account Hijackers from listing on Hijacked Seller accounts.