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Bad eBay Experience Spurs Internet Manhunt
An anonymous reader submitted an entertaining story running on the
Chicago Trib that discusses a fraudulent eBay dealer, and the
tale of his victims
tracking him down. Nothing super technical, just amusing to read
and remember that while sometimes the crooks get away, sometimes they
become the hunted. My favorite part is when they call his mom. Man
I'd love to do that to people who DoS us :)
He should have stolen an iMac instead. We all know these aren't that tech savvy people.
Oh wait...
Make even shorter URLs - 8LN.org
The fool (supposedly) shipped it via plain parcel post and no small wonder, it went missing. Rather than own up to it, and realize he made a mistake he figured it'd be easier to hang me out to dry.
Needless to say, I cancelled the credit card transaction (got my money back fine) but refused to stop there.
I sicked Discover, USPS, eBay, Billpoint/PayPal, FBI and other agencies on him for interstate mail fraud, credit card fraud, etc.
I also turned up some things in my own research - wife's name, address, phone number, etc. But the best part was having actual aerial photos of his HOUSE!
Yep, gotta love the Internet. :)
..next time we see auctions for 75 laptops from one seller, lets look up his info and just go steal them. Much better end result. Free Laptops.
Couldn't you make a game out of this??? A few try to do certain things on the internet (purchasing items, trading at E-Bay etc. etc.) and others (the whole community for all I care) have to track them down... some new form of reality tv... allow everything including hacking, cracking and lying but be aware for things such as threatening family members and friends, but I guess it could prove some great entertainment if only one could device a way to show it all... I don't think a few images of hackers on tv is that exciting...
"We live in our minds, and existance is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality" Ayn Rand
Just a little warning (30min?) would make being /.ed a WHOLE LOT SAFER for the /.ed site.
Even a piece of mail saying "you've been featured on our site -- here are some of the problems you may experience over the next YEAR." would be good.
But nooooo...
I am greatful for being featured in /. a couple of years ago, but it sometimes gets old when yet another round of attacks comes in on the site that was featured.
How about /. tell us the details about the DoS attacks and perhaps the community can help out, never mind it is hopeless to get /. to recipricate. Your security through obscurity needs to end just as much as MS's does.
-- Multics
heh heh... some years ago i used to be an administrator at a well-known website that catered to users of a certain platform and we had a forum at that site. of course we had a few punkassbitch users who could never behave on the forum and they were invariably teeniepoopers living off the fat of the land (parent's house). i'd get their personal info and call their moms. hoooo ha, now *that's* entertainment!
Bill collectors call my mom almost daily.
Doesn't do a thing.
Get your Unix fortune now!
so you built it up enough, what is this two hundred dollar "item" ??
guesses..
-- feathered dildo
-- panties worn by Jo from Facts of Life
-- preserved testicles
At least his OS is on the desktop and has real applications for it, dork. Go play with your Linux supercomputer and leave the intelligent discussion for the rest of the world.
Maybe that's why he wanted the diapers...
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