EXCLUSIVE THIEVES HACK IN TO SITE IN SALE RIP-OFF

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By Emily Nash Emily.Nash@Mirror.Co.Uk 19/02/2007

CROOKS have hijacked hundreds of sales of luxury items from online auction giant eBay.

The villains hacked into accounts of sellers and - by editing their web pages - asked buyers to contact a private email address to "buy now" at bargain prices.

It was last night feared that hundreds of buyers had been duped into sending large amounts of money over the weekend to crooks pretending to be sellers.

It is thought the hackers pretended to be eBay support staff to fool sellers of high-value goods into giving them log-in and password details.

Site user Stephen Reilly, 57, said: "They targeted cars, jewellery, artwork and sound systems."

By last night eBay's comment forum had more than 800 posts on the rip-off. One user said: "I was going to list my Range Rover but don't think I'll bother now!"

Victims may be unprotected because they made deals directly instead of through eBay. Website bosses were unavailable for comment last night

 

-- Edited by anonymous at 03:27, 2007-02-19