eBay fraud continued

Newsweek/MSNBC has another story on eBay fraud and cites some examples of people getting screwed for hefty sums of cash.

Here’s alink to the article:
Swimming With Sharks – With more people buying goods on online auction sites, crooks are getting even more aggressive.

I’m glad they are reporting on this because it highlights a scam that caught Steve a couple of years ago. He bought a laptop on eBay, and thought it was above the board because the guy had excellent feedback. Turns out some schmoe’s account had been hijacked by a con artist. The deal smelled fishy to me when they didn’t use the eBay system to communicate (send q’s and answers directly via e-mail so ebay didn’t have a record) and asked that the money be wired Western Union, but Steve wanted to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. Now we know better, but at the time, it seemed less likely that it was fraud based on what we knew at the time.

So again I wonder if eBay is worth it anymore….