eBay warns of Romanian phishing threat - ZDNet Asia
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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