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eBay Customers Targetted by Credit Card Scam

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday December 12, 2002 @09:37PM from the pulling-a-fast-one dept.

hether writes "Customers of the auction site eBay have been targeted by a site called ebayupdates.com. The site attempts to steal credit card details from eBay's 55 million customers. The SANS Institute Internet Storm Center issued the warning on this one. Info about the scam can be found on the BBC site, CNN, CNet, vnunet, and more. Funny enough there's no mention of this on the eBay site..."

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Re:I helped shut one of these guys down by tigress · 2002-12-12 22:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

I've reported scammers before, to the service providers. I'd love to report them to the legal authorities, except I'm in Sweden and I doubt me contacting Russian or Chinese legal authorities will do much about the fake French address that the UK scammer used in order to defraud German customers of a US company.