cometqrs, thanks for the kudos. I can barely keep up with beware-of-fraud and all the other participants on the German thread today. They are finding and reporting hacked accounts at a rapid pace today. It would be nice if eBay would keep up. Thus far (in 3 hours), I have added 60 new email addresses of these thieves, which is out of the ordinary. I can't even guess at how many I have missed because eBay has secured some of the accounts. Right now I am just following beware-of-fraud's footsteps to add email addresses to the blog. Without the efforts of beware-of-fraud and the participants on the German thread, I would be miles behind today. If eBay management had a conscience, they would be mortified. I thought it was bad yesterday, but it is much worse today. Rob Chesnut needs to find himself either a conscience or a cave to hide in in Afghanistan because if he answers any questions at the next Town Hall meeting, he is going to be lying about eBay's proactiveness towards fraud, and the eBay community is going to know about it as the information provided will be well-publicized afterwards. Ask me for a list of hackers email addresses found in eBay listings.
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2 Easy ways for ebay to reduce the fraud listings.

Ban all emails in listings

Scrap second chance offers.

Any on else have any ideas.

Thank goodness eBay does allow the posting of email addresses in the listings. It's one of the top red flags that the account might be hijacked and the listing might be a scam. If there isn't an overlay in the listing and if the email address isn't part of a jpeg, at least we can post the email addresses elsewhere so they can be searched for, track them on eBay and see/report the accounts affected by them. Until eBay implements fail-safe fraud protection methods, I support email addresses in listings. Legitimate sellers are foolish for posting their email addresses because they are subject to all types of problems, but that's their problem. Ask me for a list of hackers email addresses found in eBay listings.
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allsorts, there are plenty of hijackers that do not post email addresses. They turn the email forwarding function off in My eBay Preferences and accept ASQs. If eBay would force every member to accept a duplicate copy of all ASQs to a registered email address, as it would alert the real member, then I might support your idea. If a member does not know that his Preferences have been changed, he very likely might not know that his account was hijacked. Also, just because eBay might be able to disable the "@" sign in listings, would not prevent people from typing the email address with the word "at" in it. I see plenty of listings like that, from hijackers and legitimate sellers. Bottomline, eBay is doing nothing to curtail fraud and until forced to by some legal authority, it will continue to do nothing. Ask me for a list of hackers email addresses found in eBay listings.
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Reaches for the lotion. Passes the lotion to redeye.

This one is especially for you and me, folks be sure to read it

Discussing and Reporting Member-Specific Activity Alert
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=1000478265&tstart=0&mod=1176835254463

#112 - Great. So - what's the T&S board for? Discussing excessive postage? Seriously, this is just ridiculous. We need to be able to share knowledge. You can't do that by talking in vague terms. There is still no visible consistent reaction from eBay to the sudden influx of impossibly cheap iPods on hijacked accounts. Individual IDs go down, plus occasional small sets. The rest remain visible for hours, with BIN and immediate PayPal payment possible. Literally hundreds have been "sold", for thousands of dollars, over the last 36-48 hours. I've reported and reported and reported. OK with the slapper? But I'm getting tired. I'd like others to be able to do it too. They need to know what to look for. What should I say? "Watch out, there are scammers on eBay!" Or is that too specific? That really ought to help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- redeye in Oz Click Here to learn more about stopping hijackers.

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eBay wants its members (specifically those that participate frequently on this Board) to adopt eBay's form of Scientology. Basically, it boils down to that if eBay isn't bothered by "it", you shouldn't be either. Unfortunately, many go against the fray and are outraged, and for that they are censored and reprimanded. It's too bad that eBay wants to hide the dirty secrets because people get hurt when there isn't transparency. Ask me for a list of hackers email addresses found in eBay listings.
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I can tell you from experience that search strings are taboo. It's obvious that eBay doesn't want fraud discussed on the Trust & Safety Board or ANY eBay discussion board for that matter. Perhaps the term "DISCUSSION BOARDS" is a misnomer?