eBay Fraud Scams exposed

These past few days our real life projects took us away from time usually needed to monitor eBay fraud auction, hence the silence.

Spot check this morning shows we have the usual scammers running circles around eBay.

Another day on eBay…
…another (few hundred) eBay powersellers hijacked …
…another few thousand fake auctions by professional eBay scammers who are so amateurish even we can find them with minimal tools like a rss feed that picks the usual scam phrases, scam items, scammer’s email addresses etc..

Here is the latest eBay powerseller with almost 1000 feedbacks, nice lingerie store being hacked right now with the usual assortment of fake auctions.

This eBay scammer’s latest signature tag line is:
As i take this auction very seriously i want to speak personally with every interested buyer who’s ready to make the deal of the year. I will sell it only to a serious person,just after i’ll talk with him via e-mail. Questions about condition,more pics, shipping; Contact me at :
Markosshopp@aol.com

here is this eBay Scammer’s and other scammers’ list of fake eBay auction items they love to offer to their eBay victims at a fabulous once in a lifetime deal prices

One has to ponder:

• If we can find those scammers so easily with zero access to anything proprietory, just public RSS tools, why the heck is eBay not finding them and preventing them from fleecing unsuspecting buyers ?
• eBay boasts 5 Billion Dollars in surplus cash: why won’t eBay invest teeny tiny minute fraction of it into improving security on their site ?
• When questioned about the ongoing security issues where massive numbers of users logins and passwords are already compromised and in hands of hackers resulting in vast numbers of fake auctions on eBay, eBay always claims that’s not a problem. Why? What does eBay have to gain by letting fraud rampant on it’s site?