Sunday, March 11, 2007

Romanian Hacker Broadcasts eBay Customer Accounts

Lisa Vaas
eWeek.com


eBay has confirmed that, early on the morning of March 8 EST, an alleged Romanian hacker calling himself "Born_To_Scam_American_Guys" posted records for 15 eBay users on an eBay forum for between 40-60 minutes before the company removed them.

The posts were put up on the Trust & Safety board. According to other forum members who claimed to have taken part in the discussion and begged eBay to take down the information, the hacker signed in under a hijacked account and began taunting others, with the final result being the posting of the 15 accounts.


According to
Firemeg.com, a site dedicated to eBay watching, the post that kicked it all off appeared at 1:52 EST on the forum. The initial post, according to Firemeg.com, reads:


"read many opinions here.... All I saw it's just [misspelled obscenity]....Alot of things about scamms..stupid things I think. Romanian guys are the best boys !!!! We are in each country...each city...and every day alot of money from your pocket intro in pur bank accounts....You know why ?? I will tell you my opinion...because you are so stupid ..... anyone can scam you very easy....not only with fake escrow and shipping websites....

"For us nothing is not imposibile....Paypal...bank accounts...credit cards...spam....wire transfers... alot of things boys !!! WHy ??? Because we are the best !!!! Let's ask you something : what make the american and canadian boys at 14-15 years old ????? Eat burgers at Mc'Dolnalds and watch naked girls on internet porno webpages.... Romanian guys at 14-15 years old scam people...learn how to build a profesional website....how to hack a internet server and many more another "bad" things....

Complete Article Here


4 comments:

nipgor said...

Fraud on eBay committed by macomegys, nobletabby, refrence_number@accountant.com
Big Warning:
eBay member IDs: [B]macomegys[/B] and [B]nobletabby[/B] have used a fake PayPal email address: [B]refrence_number@accountant.com[/B] (Paypal Email ID PP224) to commit multiple online fraudulent crimes against eBay users who have tried to sell their items. The sellers never get paid after sending the packages to the shipment addresses requested by macomegys and nobletabby. The loss has been tremendous.

All eBay users should take very serious precaution in general, and try to AVOID doing business with these specific eBay members: macomegys and nobletabby.

You will terribly regret if you don't take this advice from the victims.

nipgor said...

Fraud on eBay committed by macomegys, nobletabby, refrence_number@accountant.com
Big Warning:
eBay member IDs: macomegys and nobletabby have used a fake PayPal email address: refrence_number@accountant.com (Paypal Email ID PP224) to commit multiple online fraudulent crimes against eBay users who have tried to sell their items. The sellers never get paid after sending the packages to the shipment addresses requested by macomegys and nobletabby. The loss has been tremendous.

All eBay users should take very serious precaution in general, and try to AVOID doing business with these specific eBay members: macomegys and nobletabby.

You will terribly regret if you don't take this advice from the victims.

nipgor said...

Fraud on eBay committed by macomegys, nobletabby, refrence_number@accountant.com
Big Warning:
eBay member IDs: macomegys and nobletabby have used a fake PayPal email address: refrence_number@accountant.com (Paypal Email ID PP224) to commit multiple online fraudulent crimes against eBay users who have tried to sell their items. The sellers never get paid after sending the packages to the shipment addresses requested by macomegys and nobletabby. The loss has been tremendous.

All eBay users should take very serious precaution in general, and try to AVOID doing business with these specific eBay members: macomegys and nobletabby.

You will terribly regret if you don't take this advice from the victims.

ulfwolf said...

Great post.

Perhaps I can add to this that the best way to guard against being ripped off by online sales or auctions is to use an online escrow company. Although it does add some cost, that will take uncertainty out of the transaction.

For my money, the best bona fide online escrow (and there seems to be ten fraudulent escrow sites for every bona fide one) is probably Escrow.com (http://escrow.com). In fact, it’s the only one that eBay recommends.

Take care,

Ulf Wolf