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budnonymous

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Date: Jun 1, 2008

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What a sleazepit they have made/are making. Too funny. (of course I mean except for the victims) here on auctionbytes: Sopranos Meets eBay in Feedback Extortion Scheme Of course here on youtube: Ebay Feedback Extortion Scam Fraud Ring Exposed It appears that a major problem has been exposed on ebay forums. Note that the thread was pulled by ebay. Here I have the text of the original post, and screencap of the cached first page of the lengthy thread, reduced to 640 width: http://tinyurl.com/6nwh3j so that folks may be aware of the issues. The original location was here (before it was pulled) http://tinyurl.com/6gmqbj Thread title: "Sellers, I just got the following email:" This has also been posted on various ebay related blogs etc. There is/was mention of an alleged "San Jose` connection." btw. Posted at May-31-08 14:01 PDT on the "Seller Central" forum, also posted on the "PowerSeller" forum. (where it may still be available at this moment) (Note that I have broken this into paragraphs here) " 'Listen very carefully. I am the winner of this item. I have 4 other eBay Users in place either bidding on or have won items from you plus myself totaling 5. We are prepared to leave you 5 Positive Feedbacks or 5 Negative Feedbacks depending on your actions. In a nutshell, we are in the business of selling Positive Feedbacks to eBay Sellers for $20 each, totaling $100 for 5 Positive Feedbacks. If you purchase the 5 Positive Feedbacks for $100, you not only get to sell your items, you also receive 5 Positive Feedbacks. As you well know, Feedback is EVERYTHING to an eBay seller on whether they are successful or not. I'm sure that you want to remain successful in your eBay business. Plus, along with the 5 Positive Feedbacks, we will also Guarantee Never to contact you again and we take you off of our list. You'll even get a receipt for your purchase. Now, here's the important part. If you refuse to purchase the 5 Positive Feedbacks, we will leave you 5 Negative Feedbacks for starters. We have 100's & 100's of eBay Users in place that we can use to leave feedbacks. In fact, we have enough to consistently leave you Negative Feedbacks for months resulting in you having to shut down your business. The absolute worst thing that you can do at this point is to try and contact eBay at any time about this or refuse to cooperate; we Will start leaving you Negative Feedbacks and shut your business down. Make no mistake, we've been doing this for years and have the power & resources to continually leave you Negative Feedbacks resulting in the closing of your business. Think about this, if you try to report us to eBay and they try and suspend our account or something like that, it will not stop us whatsoever. Remember, I said we have 100's if not 1,000's of eBay Users in place that we can use to leave you Negative Feedbacks over & over again until you are forced to shut your business down that you worked so hard to build up. Even if eBay were to keep suspending our user accounts, we have plenty more that we can use to keep leaving you Negative Feedbacks and there's No way that eBay can keep up and stop us. They have tried & failed miserably. They also know about what we do. So the best and smartest thing that you can do is protect your business and just purchase the 5 Positive Feedbacks from us. That way, it's done and over with and you can successfully continue to run your business without ever hearing from us again. We will give you up to 72 hours from now, to reply. The sooner, the better of course. Just send us an email stating that you want to purchase the 5 Positive Feedbacks from us and let us know your main email that you use so we can contact you. If we don't hear from you by the end of the 72 hours, we will assume that you are refusing to cooperate and we will start leaving you Negative Feedbacks. So don't do anything stupid. The smartest thing that you can do is take this seriously, we know what we're doing. After we hear your reply to this email, we will contact you with further instructions.' The buyer is in fact the person who won my auction. So... what would you do?" ---------------------------------------- Persons who have this sort of thing happen to them may wish to file complaints with any and all applicable Law Enforcement and /or Gov't agencies. You can find every link you need here at my blog; http://tinyurl.com/294dd3 on the left hand menu areas -- Edited by budnonymous at 01:22, 2008-06-02 __________________ Capp Vids \| Capp WP \| Tweetstream Exposing the sleazery of ebaY and PayPal

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