Hundreds of eBay accounts get hijacked daily, some even directly on eBay site.
I have been tracking the problem for past year and the situation has not improved yet... Although I hoped that numerous notifications on hijacked eBay accounts and fake auctions via proper channels to eBay security dept would make a difference, there seems to be unlimited supply of unsuspecting eBay members who hand over their account info to the hijacker.
It is perhaps because eBay phishing scams are getting more and more sophisticated. The other day I was browsing eBay - searching auctions and clicking on one of the auction results links to see the auctions detail served me a really authentic eBay login screen directly on eBay website. Here is that eBay Auction phishing page defanged off the dangerous stuff, I promptly furled it to have a nice copy of it for later disection.
That was the last straw for me... frankly I don't know what eBay security dept does but it does not seem to be enough.
So I coded this little website to assist in real time tracking of hijacked eBay accounts and fraud auctions. It is at www.companyexposed.com and it displays a teeny tiny sample of currently hijacked eBay accounts and scam auctions trying to defraud unsuspecting eBay newbies to hand over their funds via Western Union for too good to be true eBay deal.
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2dye4crochet, thank you for the info ...
All they need is a fake ID to collect thousands of $$ defrauded from victims. You know if someone sends Western Union Payment to John Q Public, with an address in Detroit, a person with a John Q Public fake ID can collect this Western Union payment anywhere.... how does a supermarket employee that makes payments in Western Union counter in Arizona become an expert on out of state ID's ? That's right, they are not, so even a badly produced fake ID seems to produce successfull payouts to the scammers.
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