truckers4 --

Yes, absolutely. If you say item ships from CA and it does ship from CA… you're good. Ditto with AZ.

-- Steve

that was interesting

Wow, that was quick. Now I look like I'm talking to myself! lol

Guess what? I got a fever and the only prescription is. . . MORE cowbell!

Re Laura M's #72 in reply to my #33 and #46 ...

Thank you Laura. I checked the link you gave, and there are but 5 cases listed, the most recent being 4/14/05.

I don't mean to say I'd like a live webcam trained on the prison cells where these creeps are being held so I can gleefully throw popcorn at my computer screen, but at least could you guys show more cases, in date-descending order, and maybe even include the perps' mug shots?

Seems like that would be reasonable recognition for our efforts out here in the community.

The APWG posts samples of the phishes it receives, with explanations of how they work. That's fine for studying them, but I really would rather know the fraudsters are being charged and prosecuted and then put away for a long time. THAT is what would make me feel a whole lot better!

Another group you may want to hook up with is http://www.mailsecurity.net.au/. They maintain a block-list of phishers that hooks into the open-source SpamAssassin project. I learned of these folks at
http://www.surbl.org/lists.html, where a bunch of these block-lists are discussed.

It's a global thing, of course, and I hope to see some pictures a la Boris and Natasha as you and your colleagues haul more of these characters in.

Thanks again ~

"I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management." - E.B. White

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Hi Caped:

This Brown Bag Lunch is an effort to stay close to the Community and those that post on the TnS board. If the Community finds this helpful, we will have our team hold a workshop like this once a month as long as the interest persists. If in between these workshops anyone notices specific sellers committing Trust & Safety violations, please report them via our webforms.

Thanks,
Matt

Can the pinks go a little easier on us when we are helping out on the boards, please

JC/5INCH/with CYBLE IN THE CLOSET

The web forms do not work all the time.

Hi clewis 3888,

eBay is working on a number of initiatives that will help us detect these kinds of listings sooner and remove them faster. We intend to do better on this, and we are putting resources against it as we speak. If you are aware of any fraudulent listings, please don’t hesitate to let us know using the site webforms. We will suspend any seller who engages in blatant counterfeiting activity, and have referred a number of these sellers to law enforcement.

Sophie, Trust and Safety

Regarding post 92.

Thanks for the suggestion. As we evaluate the best approach to take with these low priced, fixed priced items we will consider a number of solutions, including evaluating volume of transactions and business viability, while balancing the needs of different sellers objectives.

As the person that manages the feedback system, I don’t like these listings when they are abused since they undermine the integrity of the feedback system.

Brian Burke
Senior Manager, Marketplace Policy

Hi twin-dad-

Unfortunately, prosecuting the people who perpetrate phishing fraud is a time-consuming effort. We have arrests at various times through the year, but building a case, getting law enforcement involved, and making the arrest can take months. Having said that, we are more committed than ever to making sure that the community knows about the work we are doing to find these people and put them in jail.

I’ll look into mailsecurity as well. Thanks for the recommendation!

-Laura

Laura Mather
Trust and Safety

Hi Everyone:

Thanks so much for all the great questions and input. It was very helpful for our Trust & Safety team. We hope this was helpful for you and that you’ll continue to participate in these TnS Brown Bag Lunches. Please provide us feedback on whether we should continue these. If enough of you all think we should, we’ll continue them monthly.

The next one is currently scheduled for Monday, July 11 at 10am pdt. We look forward to hearing more of your questions and comments.



Thanks again,

Matt