EBay scammer
Posted:
Fri May 26, 2006 9:04 amby padey
I just received this question from my lens auction;
Now that site is a front for this guy that requests your eBay user name and password. He then gets the info to your account!
Apart for alerting eBay, can we get this guy? Flood him with fake accounts? Any ideas?
If any you computer nerds know a better way. I'm all ears!
Posted:
Fri May 26, 2006 9:46 amby Michael
people can ping his IP with large packets, hopefully enough to DDOS it.
Posted:
Fri May 26, 2006 9:52 amby gstark
Andrew,
Sadly, you just have to get over it.
I would lovce to be able to send some sort of bomb back to all of the spammers that send me crap - I run my own servers, and it really pisses me off more than you can imagine to recieve that sort of crap.
Similarly, we get a number of fake logins here every so often - usually a couple each week. I've taken steps to eliminate them from open proxy sites and to stop scripted signups, but a few morons still try to do this manually. They're quite easily identifiable because we now change their occupation to something appropriate: village idiot.
But the other day I was looking to find something that could either shut down their browser or turn off their pc while executing the script, but nothing acceptable turned up.
Posted:
Fri May 26, 2006 9:57 amby gstark
The IP address is owned by a Rumanian Telco.
Here's some of the details from a WhoIs query ...
person: Honoriu Lazar
address: TELEMOBIL S.A.
address: 2 B Bis, Calea Bucuresti,
address: Balotesti, Jud. Ilfov
address: Romania
phone: +40-21-4024444
fax-no: +40-21-4023256
e-mail:
Honoriu.Lazar@telemobil.ronic-hdl: HL525-RIPE
mnt-by: TELEMOBIL-MNT
changed:
honoriu.lazar@telemobil.ro 20051101
source: RIPE
and an email to
Honoriu.Lazar@telemobil.ro complaining of network abuse can't hurt.
Posted:
Fri May 26, 2006 10:09 amby padey
and another scam; registered yesterday, scam today...
http://www.ebay.ph/viItem?ItemId=7621290716
Posted:
Fri May 26, 2006 10:19 amby Glen
Andrew, you are right that link you put above seems as dodgy as all hell! Have a look at the images, that guy is trying to pass himself off as some sort of wedding photographer
Posted:
Fri May 26, 2006 10:24 amby radar
Hi,
just a note of caution:
By visiting dodgy sites, you better be sure that your browser software is fully up to date on fixes. It doesn't matter if you are using Firefox, Internet Explorer, <insert favourite browser>, Windows, Mac, Linux, they all contain some vulnerabilities that could be exploited by visiting dodgy sites.
Cheers,
André
Posted:
Fri May 26, 2006 11:32 amby Glen
It seems the scammer Andrew pointed out sold his lens. Congratulations
Posted:
Fri May 26, 2006 11:37 amby Michael
Yes, I bought it with my fake escrow account.
Posted:
Fri May 26, 2006 12:25 pmby padey
Glen wrote:It seems the scammer Andrew pointed out sold his lens. Congratulations
Yes, and i hear the lucky bugger has now bought a 200mm f2.
Posted:
Fri May 26, 2006 12:28 pmby Glen
Congratulations Andrew, hope you enjoy your 200 f2