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Teacher Accused Of Stealing School Books To Sell On eBay

Last Edited: Wednesday, 07 Mar 2007, 6:13 PM CST
Created: Wednesday, 07 Mar 2007, 6:13 PM CST
Credit: MyFox
By The Associated Press

WETHERSFIELD, Conn. -- A special education teacher at two Wethersfield schools has been arrested on charges of stealing hundreds of books from school and selling them on the Internet.

Jodi Kress, 31, of Colchester, was charged with first-degree larceny when she turned herself in last Friday, police said.

Kress is accused of stealing more than 600 books from Hanmer and Charles Wright elementary schools where she worked as a special education teacher, police said.

Police began investigating a report about a year ago that books from various classrooms were missing. Police say some of those missing items turned up on the eBay online auction site and they were able to identify Kress as the seller.

"We arranged to make a buy and had the books examined by the state Police Lab who told us that the blacked out labels in each book said, `property of Hanmer Elementary School,'" Lt. Thomas Dillon said.

Police obtained and executed a search warrant for Kress's home where they said they found 600 of the school's books. Dillon said he had no estimate on how many books had been sold before police executed the warrant.

Kress was released after posting $10,000 bond and is to appear in New Britain Superior Court on March 16.

lieworld wrote:

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What does ebay do with the $$$ they make from all the stolen goods?

They use it to hire shills to counteract stories like these on forums.

The first response would be.

And this is eBay's fault how?

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HaHa!



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Thieves traced through eBay

By Chloe Griffiths, The Journal

(with pictures at link)

Thieves trying to use internet auction sites to sell stolen goods were last night warned they are being watched.

 

The Northumbria Police warning came after two people were arrested yesterday following an investigation into suspicious activity on internet auction site eBay, which led to £20,000 worth of stolen goods being recovered.

 

An investigation was launched after information was received about one particular seller off-loading large quantities of goods at knock-down rates from a private address.

Specialist officers monitored the seller and, helped by eBay, traced to an address to Sunderland.

file note: removed a duplicate post. Thank you.





-- Edited by Cyber Diva at 13:59, 2007-03-10

After a poster named "peeep" (purged eBay account "Jenniferisunusual") inquired about a "private" eBay account "pocketrats" on March 9, 2007....the owner of the account reported the following information: (First time in print)



http://www.networkstalking.org/wordpress/


Can eBay Reconcile its "Venue" Status with Intrusive "Special Programming" Practices?
March 9th, 2007

Recently, eBay's vaunted venue status, which until now has proved to be an impenetrable, protective armor, insulating the Internet giant from liability and responsibility for the wide-spread illegal activity occurring on its sites Worldwide, has come under fire with multimillion dollar suits brought by Christian Dior, SA, in Paris, Tiffany and Company, in New York, and J. K. Rowling, the creator of the Harry Potter franchise, in Delhi.

Dior Sues eBay

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1168471808673

Tiffany Sues eBay

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1090180362167

J.K. Rowling Sues eBay

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1437673.ece

Finally, the first chink in eBay's protective venue shield has been sustained by a court in Delhi, India. For the first time in its history, eBay has been ordered by a court to police its own sites and to accept liability for infringing items. Akash Chittranshi, who is representing Rowling at the High Court in Delhi, told The London Times that the injunction could set a precedent. “If they can do it in this case then they can do it a lot more,” he said. “This is the first time eBay has been compelled to take measures to prevent e-books being sold.”

Like a devastatking fork in a high-profile chess game, eBay has been given a kind of Hobson's choice by the High Court's ruling: If eBay fails to comply then it can be held in contempt, and if it succeeds, then eBay will have proved it can do what for years it has claimed it cannot. Either way, eBay's subsequent acts will likely open the flood gates to similar suits worldwide.

For many years, eBay has wanted it both ways: On one hand, it has presumed complete freedom to promote certain sellers, while exploiting others, to control communication between members, to employ methods of restraining commerce that might otherwise occur off-eBay and thereby deprive eBay of commissions, to receive a fee for every listing and a percentage of every successful transaction, regardless of the provenance of the items offered for sale, while refusing to implement competent security features that would certainly reduce fraud and thus protect everyone but that potentially might reduce the volume of new registrations and listings, and thereby impact eBay's bottom line. EBay even wants to control discourse on its public discussion and help forums by penalizing whistle blowers and critics, while promoting pro-eBay ruffians that abuse and violate other members. On the other hand, eBay wants to recede into the cool, quiet oasis of its hear-no-evil, see-no-evil "we're only a venue" wonderland when confronted about the rampant crime, corruption, intellectual property theft, counterfeiting, fencing, and racketeering occurring on its sites worldwide. The question is: How long will the Courts and Congress permit this charade to continue? Clearly, eBay considers its venue status as immutable law, but in fact, this can change very quickly, as the above cases demonstrate.

Considering that eBay's very future may be riding on its we're-just-a-venue defense, one would expect that eBay should scrupulously be observing all precautions and taking every possible step to preclude any act undertaken by its employess and agents that potentially might undermine its position. One reasonably would assume that eBay should avoid any conflicts of interest, such as by allowing its employees and paid agents to compete with its customers, and in particular, the very employees assigned to customer service, technical support, and forum administration. One would expect eBay to absolutely prohibit the receipt of gifts and gratuities by its employees and agents from customers, to disallow its employees and agents from posting to the discussion and help forums without properly disclosing their status as eBay personnel, to bar its employees and agents from taking sides in interpersonal disputes between members, to refrain from imposing economic sanctions against whistleblowers and critics, to abstain from interfering in and attempting to control lawful communication and commerce between its members, and to otherwise avoid any business practices that liken eBay more to a bookmaker than to an honest venue. But no. EBay believes it can have it both ways, and thus far, they have. The following is just one example that demonstrates how eBay actively and deliberately interferes with commerce and then uses credulous and uninformed personnel to proffer spurious explanations and denials on its behalf.

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Hello Jesse:

Thank you for your reply, but what you suggest could not possibly be either the cause or the solution to the problem at hand.

The eBay messaging system is essentially a web-mail application front-end running on your http server, not mine. An email message to a recipient is initiated by a sender when he submits a web-based form (HTTP POST) on port 80 to a server at your end corresponding to the dns address, contact.ebay.com. Consequently, if a firewall at our location were interrupting traffic on port 80 then I wouldn't be able to access your website at all, or any other website listening on port 80 for that matter. Nor could the presence or absence of any amount or type of browser cache be the cause of communications problems between eBay servers and the internet because, among other reasons, browser cache cannot affect the posting of form data except under very special circumstances that do not obtain here.

Here is an example session transcript of the form posting operation associated with the command, HandleContacteBayMember initiated by clicking on one of several links, such as the "Ask Seller a Question" link. For example:

http://contact.ebay.com/aw-
cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ReturnUserEmail&requested=sellerid&de=off&iid=123456789&
frm=284&acceptcookie=0&loginconfirmed=0&pass=encodedpassword&userid=requestor

In the session transcript which follows, the control and status packets have been omitted; control characters, such as Hex 09, 0A, 0D, appear as white space:

========= HTTP POST TRANSCRIPT - CONTACT MEMBER ========
POST /aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll HTTP/1.1
Host: contact.ebay.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Connection: Keep-Alive
Referer: http://contact.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ReturnUser
Email&requested=pocketrats&frm=1236
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)
UA-OS: MacOS
UA-CPU: PPC
Cookie: elvis32=671752; lucky9=514594; minMax=%00; reg=1;
nonsession=AQAAAAIAAAAPAAAAEAAAAO1/sT1ts5I/MDYyNDA3NTsQAAAATAAAA
E3xuD3NJJo/QDIxNi4xMDMuNzMuMTMxZTFUSEVNQUNHVVJVUy5DT00gJDIkTW96a
WxsYS8kaWZCSENqRUtzRERwenFPWTJYcEk0LgA*f; search=st2;
s=AQAAAAYAAAASAAAARwAAAEbxuD3GK8I9QDIxNi4xMDMuNzMuMTMxZTF0ZXN0Q2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;
ebaysignin=in
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Extension: Security/Remote-Passphrase
Content-length: 190

MfcISAPICommand=HandleContacteBayMember&requested=pocketrats&
requestor=[redacted].com&reqpass=XlxAfjTbTLPG5IbDBDeFz%2F&subject=
Question+from+eBay+Member&message=What%27s+up%2C+pocketrats%3F
=============END OF TRANSCRIPT=============

As you can see, this a a very rudimentary post operation. We have the standard header data with the usual eBay cookies (elvis32, lucky9, minMax, reg, nonsession, search, s, and ebaysignin), with just a few input fields (requested, requestor, reqpass, subject, and message. If the Bcc checkbox is left checked then the additional input, &sendcopy=ON, is also included). The command string is url-encoded, the password is encrypted, and everything is in order. The Post Command, HandleContacteBayMember, is thus a straightforward example of the HTTP POST specification.

Now, we know that the POST HTTP request is reaching your server, contact.ebay.com, for two reasons:

1) The server, contact.ebay.com, is sending the following reply upon receipt of the above POST header:

HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:44:29 GMT

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:44:29 GMT
Connection: close
Set-Cookie: s=AQAAAAUAAAASAAAARwAAAEbxuD3GK8I9QDIxNi4xMDMuNzMuMT
MxZTF0ZXN0Q29va2llICQyJE1vemlsbGEvJE5ZNHRBZWxtSWN1NDR3cXIwbi80aS
8AAQAAAEwAAABN8bg9bQS5PUAyMTYuMTAzLjczLjEzMWUxVEhFTUFDR1VSVVMuQ0
9NICQyJE1vemlsbGEvJGlmQkhDakVLc0REcHpxT1kyWHBJNC4AAwAAAEAAAABN8b
g9bQS5PUAyMTYuMTAzLjczLjEzMWUxNTExICQyJE1vemlsbGEvJDZuQ3hFR2J4Nm
d3UXJmOFBQbi9RcC8ADAAAAEMAAABN8bg9Xf+4PUAyMTYuMTAzLjczLjEzMWUxNj
0MDc1ICQyJE1vemlsbGEvJFFLbWIxYUd5Q1FUR3h2dWZiVEUxdzAABgAAAAsAAA
BN8bg9Xf+4PTAyMA**l; path=/; domain=.ebay.com
Set-Cookie: nonsession=AQAAAAIAAAAPAAAAEAAAAO1/sT1ts5I/MDYyNDA3N
TsQAAAATAAAAE3xuD3NJJo/QDIxNi4xMDMuNzMuMTMxZTFUSEVNQUNHVVJVUy5DT
00gJDIkTW96aWxsYS8kaWZCSENqRUtzRERwenFPWTJYcEk0LgA*f;
path=/; domain=.ebay.com; Expires=Sat, 25-Oct-2003 07:44:29 GMT

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:44:34 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
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The HTTP 1.x response codes, 100 CONTINUE and 200 OK, clearly indicate that the POST operation was successful, which is to be expected because my browser is posting form data to your server using your form served from your site. Your server did not, for example, send any of the following response codes: 400 Bad Request; 401 Unauthorized; 405 Method Not Allowed;
or 501 Not Implemented. Indeed, your server sent 200 OK, which means that the form data was received correctly from my browser.

b) We also know that your server, contact.ebay.com, has correctly received the posted form data because I received copies of some of the messages intended for the recipient as a result of checking the "Bcc to Myself" box located on your form. This means that your HTTP server successfully processed the posted form data and subsequently composed and successfully transmitted an email message based on that request.

Therefore, if browser cache or firewall considerations were to blame, as you suggest, then how do you explain all of this? In fact, the foregoing cannot be explained at all through such finger pointing maneuvers, so we must conclude that firewalls, browser cache, and the like are all irrelevant here.

On the other hand, your server is not complaining about such things, for if browser cache was the problem then the facts illustrated in a) and b) could not obtain, and indeed, if a firewall was interfering then your server would not be receiving any requests from my browser at all. Rather, your server is falsely reporting trouble with every recipient's mail server. Why do you suppose that is?

I have performed the same test using both Macs and PCs running IE5, Netscape 7, Opera, iCab, and even a WebTV emulator, and always with the same negative result whenever I sign on using my primary user id, [redacted] and the ip address, [redacted]. On the other hand, I can use any browser on any platform with a different ip address logged in under an alternate user id and invariably have success sending member to member correspondence. Nothing you suggest could possibly explain these facts. The only rational explanation is what I have already stated.

I understand that only a handful of persons, most likely on a need-to-know basis, are aware of this sort of "special programming" which goes on routinely within large organizations, and I fully expected your reaction of disbelief. I can assure you, however, that nothing in the canned litany of responses provided by your supervisors will satisfy anyone that actually understands the HTTP specification (RFC 2068). Please see that my request reaches the right people so that the block can be lifted.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
A.H...
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Hello A...,

Thank you for taking the time to send us this information. I am sorry that you have had this trouble using our mail forwarding system.

I assure you that we do not block members from sending each other email. This problem may occur if you have a firewall in place. If this is the case I recommend adjusting it or turning it off and you should be able to send mail to members easier.

Clear your browser cache and then trying again may also be helpful. If you are using the same computer constantly to send notices and use the site your internet storage compacity may be full.

Note: This process varies from browser to browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, AOL, and so on). Check your browser's Edit, View or Options menu command and look for Preferences or Network Preferences, then check for a tab called Cache.

2. Follow the instructions listed there to empty or clear the cache and try listing your items again.

If the problem persists, please write us back with further information.

What are some of the details of your platform? For example, what Operating System are you using? Are you using a PC or Macintosh computer? What browser and version are you using?

Also, the URL(web address) of the problematic page would be helpful.

Equally important, please elaborate on what you are doing prior to the received problems. The more information and details provided will help us to better understand what is being done. This will enable us to provide a more definitive solution for you.

I appreciate the opportunity to help and wish you the best with your future transactions.

Regards,

Jesse C.
eBay PowerSeller Support
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eBay
Your Personal Trading Community ™

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26170508
10/24/02

Original Message Follows:
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Hello

For the past several months I have been seeing the following message about 80% of the time when attempting to use your member to member messaging system to contact other eBay members:

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Warning: Unable to send your question(s)
Unfortunately, we were unable to send your question(s) to the eBay user via email. The user may be experiencing problems receiving email at this time.
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Since I contact other members only when making buying decisions, and do so randomly and at random times, it is safe to say that the resulting sample is statistically representative of a large segment of the entire eBay user community. Consequently, if this message were to accurately reflect the true nature of the cause for the repeated failure of your smtp servers to reliably transfer email messages to other members, we would have to conclude that most of your users experience difficulty with their email systems most of the time, a conclusion which is, to say the least, absurd.

The next least likely hypothesis is that your servers are experiencing problems most of the time, a scenario which, if true, would rank your network administrators near the bottom of the industry's competency scale. This too is most implausible.

Therefore, the only possibility remaining, the inescapable conclusion, if you will, is that eBay is intentionally and selectively, programmatically blocking member to member correspondence in a manner that affects some, but not all, users. To test this hypothesis, just this evening I repeatedly attempted for more than 15 minutes to send a message to eBay user, [redacted], utterly without success despite dozens of tries. I then logged in from a different computer connected to a different subnet using a different user id, and voila! - the message went instantly through. I then returned to the original computer and again attempted to send the same message to the same user from [redacted] while connected to my primary subnet, and again received the above misleading notice suggesting that [redacted] "may be experiencing problems receiving email at this time."

It is clear to me that there can be but one explanation for this, and that explanation has nothing whatsoever to do with the reliability of any recipient's mail server.

We can demonstrate that the HTTP form presented when the "Ask Seller a Question" link was clicked did post successfully to your servers at least several times from my primary subnet, a fact that is evidenced by my receipt of a number uncorrupted facsimiles of the message intended for my recipient. This proves that the information reached your servers without difficulty; it was only the communication between your servers and the recipient that failed. Therefore, the difficulty, if any, lies between your servers and the recipient's mail system; and since there was no evidence of any trouble at all with either system or with what lies between, as demonstrated by the instant success of the transaction when logged in under a different user id and using a different computer with a different IP address, we must conclude the deliberate interference with our communications.

What has been done is clandestine, intrusive, and wrong. Kindly lift whatever block you have placed upon my ability to communicate with other members, an act you have taken without notice, advice, or explanation to me. Doing business with Microsoft is one thing; doing business *like* Microsoft is another thing entirely.

Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.

Sincerely,
A. H...




edited to add date of "Jenniferisunusual's" inquiry: March 9, 2007 regarding "pocketrats" a private eBay account.

-- Edited by Cyber Diva at 09:31, 2007-03-10


More info on "jenniferisunusual"

http://networkstalking.org/wordpress/category/jenniferisunusual/


-- Edited by Cyber Diva at 10:28, 2007-03-10


edited to add news source links. thank you.




-- Edited by Cyber Diva at 11:25, 2007-03-10

Really Bored wrote:

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anonymous wrote:

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TEbay is an essential part of many scams

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Amen Brother! Preach it loud because people need to know about eBay's role in crime.

If eBay wasn't around scam artist wouldn't be able to operate. Google won't let some scam artist run a "psychic" service ad offering phony readings to milk the ignorant of their money. You won't find any other auction site offering pirated DVD's, CD's, and Game disks. EBay is the only one that will accept such merchandise.

How people can allow eBay to operate is a total mystery!!! Before something is offered on eBay it should be examined and certified to be authentic before it can be put up for auction.

Only with message boards like this can reasonable voices begin to get the publics attention and teach them of the evils of eBay.

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Trouble, oh we got trouble,
Right here in River City!
With a capital "T"
That rhymes with "E"
And that stands for eBay,
That stands for eBay.
We've surely got trouble!
Right here in River City,
Right here!
Gotta figger out a way
To keep the young ones moral after school!
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble...
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Everyday, in everyway, I'm getting healthier and healthier.

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 bump! 

anonymous wrote:

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Deputy accused of selling stolen cameras on eBay
By Joe Furia

Watch the story

A King County Sheriff's deputy is accused selling cameras that were stolen from a local fire station on Ebay.

Deputy Dave Hood was convicted of two counts of possession of stolen property.

King County sheriff's spokesman John Urquart said investigators began working on the case after the missing cameras turned up for sale, and ended up tracking one of their own.

"After the missing cameras turned up on ebay last year, investigators started sniffing around the website to track down the seller," he said. "He went by the name 'beardiron'. Beardiron turned out to be longtime King County deputy Dave Hood."

The two cameras in question were sold on Ebay for a combined sum of $180.

According to court documents, when detectives confronted Hood, he claimed he bought the cameras at an Eastside yard sale. He also claimed he had no idea they had been stolen from fire station 75, which Hood had a key to get into.

No one has accused Hood of going to the fire station and stealing the cameras, but the volunteer firefighter who owned the cameras said she noticed the cameras surfaced on eBay after they disappeared.

Urquhart said it is not known whether the convictions will cost Hood his job.

"Suffice it to say, we'll complete our internal investigation and then a decision regarding what kind of punishment will come at that point in time," he said.

Hood was given a 12-month deferred sentence on condition that he not be charged or convicted of other crimes in the next year.




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If you can find your way through all the fluff stories, there is a trickle of important news out there.

Why are there soooo many fluff stories, but hardly any which might, for instance, help make aware and/or protect consumers about/from dangerous online auction sites, which are SCAM RIDDLED?


-- Edited by anonymous at 05:13, 2007-03-11

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A King County Sheriff's deputy is accused selling cameras that were stolen from a local fire station on Ebay.

Deputy Dave Hood was convicted of two counts of possession of stolen property.


What's this world coming to?

anonymous wrote:

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What I still wanna know, what does ebaY do with their cut of all the auctioned/sold stolen goods?

I do not believe anyone has ever asked that.

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They invest in government bonds. lol

Arrest Made After Stolen Civil War Items Sold on eBay Former National Archives intern is charged in theft of historical documents. Part 1 of a special five-part series. --> Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

budnonymous wrote:

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Anyone at ebaY ever been to a museum?

What did they do with their cut?

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Good question!! Maybe they bought more eBaY stocks?

 

The scam lasted from early 2000 until late 2001. Twice eBay got wind of him and booted him off its service. McEnroe would take on different personas and use the approval ratings of others to continue his scheme.