[63090] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FW: e-bay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Fri Sep 26 14:03:30 2003
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:06:22 -0400
To: "Ken Stubbs" <kstubbs@digitel.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <015101c38455$4ce15bf0$1902a8c0@HPPAVILION>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 01:40 PM 26/09/2003, Ken Stubbs wrote:
>the scale of this fraud is, frankly, huge, but many companies like ebay &
>paypal downplay it
>to avoid tainting the legitimacy of their respective businesses
I went through the steps to report it to ebay and paypal via their web
interface. I got an email requesting the original message, I bounced it to
them the same day quoting the appropriate ticket #. A day or so later a
human being had sent a template email saying yes, its a scam etc etc and
that they were investigating and that was that. 2 days later, the IP is dead.
I really feel for them. The scam site is in Korea, the email was sent via
an open proxy on a cable modem in the US somewhere. Big or small, I doubt
its an easy job coordinating international law enforcement to 'whack a
mole' essentially. In my case, the initial IP that was in the scam mail
was gone 2 days after I reported it. I dont know if that was weeks after
someone else or if they did get it shut down in 48hrs. But 3 days later, I
got another email with the same scam, this time to a different provider in
Korea.... Next.
---Mike
