Archive for January 21st, 2007

I’m not sure how eBay allowed a dozen auctions to slip by that may have stolen hundreds of user ID’s before they were shut down.

My Girlfriend (Sara) was browsing eBay’s “Toys and Hobbies” category and the first two auctions had a gallery image with full frontal nudity. She asked me how it was a seller could do that, and I told her they can’t. I went on to let her know we needed to report the seller.

She clicked on the auction link and was greeted with a login page (which happens on eBay sometimes). It wasn’t until after she submitted her login information that I realized she wasn’t on eBay.

With further inspection we found as soon as the auction link was clicked the user was taken off eBay and instructed to login with a page and website that looked just like eBay, but the URL was NOT on eBay. (more…)