eBay Fraud Scams exposed

eBay Trust and Safety announced proactive fraud reduction policy/effort over a month ago. The proactive is not working! The scammers are still running circles around eBay and we see enormous amounts of scam auctions passing the “new and improved” fraud filters on eBay.

Here is a sample of 40 HIJACKED SELLERS WITH HUNDREDS OF SCAM AUCTIONS collected yesterday over a period of 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Click Here to see screenshots of hijacked eBay sellers and sample auctions that were uploaded without sellers knowledge…. all those auctions passed the famous… or should I say infamous eBay fraud filters. If we can find 40 !!!! hijacked sellers in 80 minutes, take screen shots and add them to our little scam track filters, can you imagine how many fraudulent auctions actually make it to eBay site?We estimate based on the numbers of hijacked sellers we find daily, which ranges anywhere from 80 to several hundred, that currently there is anywhere to 10,000 to 30,000 hijacked seller accounts per month that pass eBay security filters/pro-active efforts. Thus the core of eBay honor system, checking sellers feedback is worthless. If you are buying items priced over $100 the sellers feedback may be useless if the seller account has been hijacked by a scammer and fraudulent auctions were uploaded to the seller account without seller’s knowledge. The amount of fraud bypassing eBay security is staggering. Be very very very careful purchasing anything over $100 on eBay!