Ebay Super Fraudster Jailed For Only Four years

Microsoft has launched a new tool which allows users to translate foreign language web pages to their own native language. Unlike Google's Translate tool, the Microsoft Translator is available as a URL link, making its usable on...

If there's two things that the discovery of tens of thousands of compromised email accounts showed us is that phishing is unfortunately common and that having one password that gives access to a number of services is nothing...

An eBay scammer, who tricked many online customers across the globe into buying substandard electronic goods, has been ordered to pay back over £100,000 in damages to the affected people.Jonathan Hartley, who is currently...

Microsoft on Thursday announced that it has filed as many as 63 lawsuits in its recent attempt to crackdown on sellers of its fake software, including online vendors that auction its software under a new scam, tagged as...

Good to see a group of concerned online citizens going to town in revealing eBay sellers are out and out fraudsters themselves, in the wake of apparent apathy from eBay.eBay apathy? Some mistake surely? -EdAccording to the Los...

This is the question that security firm Cyber-Ark asks referring to the case of a California bank employee who sold his employer's computers on eBay - and even pawned them to raise cash - highlights the need for digital data...

Paypal, the online payment specialist purchased by Ebay, has grabbed Israel-based Fraud Sciences. The firm is specialised in detecting online fraud, which Paypal is trying to curb and comes as Ebay is trying to push Paypal as...

UK Police forces are not devoting enough human and financial resources to tackle the growing problem of Ebay Scams all over the country, according to a detailed investigation carried out by PC Pro.UK is the second largest...

Crime doesn't pay, especially in the real world. A 17 year old individual in the Netherlands has been arrested following the stealing of virtual objcts in a popular Finnish social networking site called http://www.habbo.com Habbo...

Criminals create e-mails that appear to come from legitimate banks, insurance companies, eBay and so on. Unsuspecting people will click on a web link in the e-mail, which then takes them to a fake web site where they enter their...

Sophos has warned Netters to be on the look-out for scam emails advising that eBay is closing, and that users should `click here' for more information.The emails - and there are plenty of them - claim that eBay is planning to...

I am afraid, it might just be one of those "legal".... scams. On January 11, 2007, the entire United States will begin to be divided, town by town and city by city, at a new website called OnTheMapUS. The website presents a...

Holy moly - eBay reports that a total of 21 people are now facing fraud charges in connection with a major international scam on the auction Web site.According to news reports, the scamsters were located in Chicago, but working...

By the time you read this post, the advert for a ‘Picture of Heart with an attached pikture of DESKTOP PC’ will have disappeared from Ebay.co.uk.The ‘please-I-am-dying-send-money’ kind of scam has been long restricted to email...

The Register reports that auction site eBay is a focus of automated "bots" as fraudsters attempt to build " bogus eBay reputations that will later allow them to dupe gullible punters through bogus auctions."The reports adds: "As...