Russian eBay fraud website closed down
Published March 28th, 2006
Auction News
The online auction site eBay has helped to shut down a Russian website that was offering to sell stolen customer account information for as little as $5 (about £3) a time.
Armed with an eBay customer’s login and password, a fraudster could post items for sale, collect payments and then never deliver the goods. The site was also offering to sell a handful of PayPal accounts.
Security vendor Sunbelt Software reported it to eBay, which worked with the local ISP to have it taken offline, an eBay spokeswoman confirmed. She couldn’t say how many user accounts were offered for sale or whether any customers’ accounts had been misused.
The site probably collected the information through phishing attacks or a Trojan virus that plants keylogging software on users’ PCs, said Alex Eckelberry, president of Sunbelt.
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