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Old 03-15-2004, 06:20 PM
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Klayfish,

The names they use are stolen ebay acct numbers from legit. ebay users, usually with spotless records. Perhaps thousands of these accounts were compromised when those people responded to a fraudulent e-mail that appeared to be from ebay asking them to verify their accounts by providing passwords and other financial info. When they did that, their accounts were hijacked, e-mail addresses changed, and worse.

It's virtually impossible to catch these guys because they use different IP addresses all the time and are usually outside the U.S.
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