Yesterday evening I found yet another hijacked/ hacked account,  koulithegreek so I though I might just tweet it out to the head monkey in charge, as it were.

@Tallboy6 Trade with hacked Canadian ebaY sellers: Does your internet tax plan address that? http://bit.ly/11RYjCr  pic.twitter.com/FZbtzot5BT

Tonight I go look again and the listings are still there, only the hosting site where the hacker's images, including the contact me at bla blah has gone down. This batch had the name lany.ebay at you know where dot com as contact info.

I'm guessing that ebay needs those fvf's and the ad revenue. LoLz

Keep up the great work, ebaY.

Twitter / Cappnonymous: @Tallboy6 Trade with hacked ...
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A development with the fraud listings which is troubling for a couple reasons.

First off, this one may not actually be hacked, but a dedicated account just opened by the member russbutl on May 8th 2013. Much like the one I posted the tweet about above. This particular item/identical photo etc has been used very recently for scam listings.

Second, notice there isn't any image or text with outside contact instructions in the listing?

Third, for whatever reason, the small "beacon" icon indicating the member/seller is brand new, while showing on the seller list and fb pages is absent on the listing page.

The paypal logo is flying as payment method, along with that glorious "rock solid guarantee" of ebay buyer protection.

What may well be the case here is that the scammer has a fake paypal account to take the payment on, or perhaps hijacked/hacked/taken over someone else's? At any rate, they seem ready willing and able to take paypal payment.

That seems to be a risky combination of variables for would-be buyers/bidders

oh yeah, can't let this go by without mention. ^ notice that entirely fake "people who bought this also bought..." showing up everywhere, even (or mostly) places/listings where nothing sold!. wow lmao

(see my tweetstream for some of the latest on the fake ebay and paypal accounts for sale problem. It may be more like pandemic than epidemic by now.)

There was also another similarly recently registered account, robcar234 ( 0 ) that had listings for items like that, but with the contact info image. Those are now removed, yet the account remains active/ in good standing w/e. Visual documentation available upon request.

Update:

bwhahaha I'm looking at this russbtl's listings. Now showing is a contact instructions image, with the text to contact robcar234 at g-mail. By adding to the listing, as opposed to revised.

Hilarious!

For whatever reason I guess they couldn't add the image to the original listing or revise it? technical issue, maybe just forgot or whatever?

Here's the url of that image

http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/12897645/1024/Picture-Box/5trtrh.jpg

The fake paypal (and ebaY) account issue still remains. Maybe not on these particular listings, but overall.  I can tell you there is a great deal of interest in them.

Haven't updated this in a while because it would be easier to mention when ebay was NOT being hacked!

Let's start off with this:

eBay hack sends victim into debt collection nightmare

 ^ This lady had her dormant ebay account hijacked, whereupon sleazebay and their debt collectors came after her like rabid Hyenas to the tune of thousand$. If you have an ebay account you do not use, make sure to close it out or fix your bank account and credit card accounts so that ebay/paypal cannot withdraw from them. Ebay recently changed the billing language in their user agreement so as to allow then to deduct from your attached payment methods, as well as the collections parts of it.

Also, pretty easy to consider the ownership of the ebay forums by escort service/call girls and other spammers, as a hack job, since they are scooting right by whatever forum moderation filters may (or may not ) be in place. It's hilarious! They are even using intimidation tactics now to silence users who want a clean forums.

ebaY Community Forums Under Spam Attack

Now just a sample of the account take-overs, they have not missed a beat. Notice the high-end items, the amount of them, the rapidity with which they were listed, the immediacy of visibility.

Clearly the hackers have abilities to bypass whatever filters, policies etc which 'regular' ebay members do not have.

You will note the hacker's MO is basically the same, yet ebay is unable to defeat that challenge after all this time... hmmm

Tonight's seller/victim: professional_sports_authenticators

2013 Cannondale Scalpel 29ER 1

Victim/Seller's list in the Trading Cards category, where it looks like the bulk of the fraud listings were placed. Everything you see which is NOT a Trading card there is most likely fraud. Once again, hackers get around whatever category suggestions/restrictions ebaY may have.. Many times they are able to list duplicate high end items, in so-called "high fraud" categories, sometimes hundreds if not thousands... hmmm...

 ^ oops, forum resizes. Full page screencap available upon request