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Online auction site eBay has made public the details of a three-year long campaign to curb online fraud being perpetrated by criminals in Romania -- an effort that has resulted in several hundred arrests.
Matt Henley, a member of eBay's US-based Fraud Investigations Team, spoke about the campaign while taking part in a two-day workshop in Sydney with representatives of local law enforcement agencies.
Henley is currently in town to discuss the latest online fraud techniques with representatives from the Australian Federal Police, the High-Tech Crime Centre, the Australian Crime Commission, ACMA and all the State and Territory Police forces.
The e-commerce site's internal fraud team first took note of a higher than usual amount of fraudulent activity from Eastern Europe in 2005.
"A huge percentage of the fraud we were seeing was from Romania," Henley said.
While schemes varied, many of these criminals committed fraud after approaching eBay users that had narrowly lost an auction.
Full article/ source: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/securi...ers/0,130061744,339279178,00.htm?feed=generic
IMO its about time Ebay did something about fraud
Matt Henley, a member of eBay's US-based Fraud Investigations Team, spoke about the campaign while taking part in a two-day workshop in Sydney with representatives of local law enforcement agencies.
Henley is currently in town to discuss the latest online fraud techniques with representatives from the Australian Federal Police, the High-Tech Crime Centre, the Australian Crime Commission, ACMA and all the State and Territory Police forces.
The e-commerce site's internal fraud team first took note of a higher than usual amount of fraudulent activity from Eastern Europe in 2005.
"A huge percentage of the fraud we were seeing was from Romania," Henley said.
While schemes varied, many of these criminals committed fraud after approaching eBay users that had narrowly lost an auction.
Full article/ source: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/securi...ers/0,130061744,339279178,00.htm?feed=generic
IMO its about time Ebay did something about fraud
