SECUR> Bidding for Trouble?
- From: gleason <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: nethappenings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 21:04:04 -0400
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Bidding for Trouble?
EBay, the online auction site, is the world's largest marketplace. At any
given time on eBay, over 16 million items are up for auction. And with that
distinction comes one of the problems that face most conventional
marketplaces - fraud. Failure to deliver goods, identity theft and password
stealing are the most common scams. The Federal Trade Commission has ranked
online auction scams as the top fraud complaint on the Internet. To combat
this "significant" problem, in April federal and state prosecutors
announced a major crackdown on online auction fraud. EBay's chief fraud
fighter, Rob Chestnut, himself a former federal prosecutor, admits that
eBay has had to become tougher on scam artists. In fact, eBay just hired
the White House's outgoing cyber security czar, Howard Schmidt, to be vice
president of security. EBay claims that fraudulent transactions represent
less .01 percent of its total, but that does not include anyone that paid
by credit card nor those who don't file!
a claim with eBay.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37863-2003May10.html
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