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Posted By: botn

Scott,

Since Anthony Nex brought this to my attention I made a public post with the information that he had provided to me. Others have been receiving similar e-mails through the ebay e-mail system from "Toni" but they are from other user ids. Not the one that I initially reported here. As time passed it became clear that whomever was perpetrating this attempted fraud had hijacked several ebay ids. I have been feeding ebay with the information as it comes to me and they have been able to assist the people whose accounts were taken over by restoring their accounts to the rightful owners.

The hijacker is the same person or persons who have a copy of my site, inventory and images. They are not located in Italy but they have provided enough bogus information and are computer savvy enough to be able to hide. This person or persons, as far as I can tell, are within the borders of the US.

Other than using the hijacked ids as a means to communicate with people and provide a shell under which they can operate and look legitimate, there is no other reason for an account to be hijacked, yet that does not stop these guys from attempting to take over the ebay accounts. There may also be a way for them to gather personal and financial information in doing this.

The suspicious thing is that under my buying id, mello-mint, I am bidding on virtually every caramel card listed on ebay, yet I never received an e-mail from this creep offering out those cards to me. It makes me think that this is someone who knows me and knew to avoid me for as long as possible.

Greg