With the Internet fraud bright eBay plans Vigilantes
During the last auction, it offers over $ 2.5 million in a telescope with a value not exceeding $ 2000. He knew he would not have to pay for the telescope because he was sure that they do not exist.
The list was a fake, he decided, because the seller offered free shipping and was in Andorra, a small country in the Pyrenees, which are often fraudsters. Mr. Priebe said his command was a wild attempt to protect innocent bidders is not in the trap, he had discovered.
Mr. Priebe, 42, is an eBay vigilante, part of a series of eBay members are Stepping to the fight against online auction fraud - a problem they say is more and more serious every week — because they believe that the company does not have enough work for its own police.
But in view eBay M. Priebe and his brothers are outcasts vigilant. Instead of this virtual machine, it is quick eBay, occasionally go so far to suspend the guards’ accounts.
“We love the fact that people want to help, but there is a good way to do so and a means, not constructive or in the interest of good community market place,” said Rob Chesnut, eBay’s Vice President for rules, trust and security, Adding add that eBay was anything they can do for him safe to buy and sell on its website.
Ebay, which is headquartered in San Jose, California, has more than 800 people worldwide in the fight against fraud, he said, and should not help amateurs. “Just as in the offline world,” he said, “you can not run around the man by the law in their hands.”
However, critics say the company is not only slow to stop fraud, but there is little to show how it goes much further.
“EBay denial of the magnitude of the problem is out of control,” said Mark Silk, a computer security consultant in Manhattan, has stumbled on a false Deal for a high-end Espresso Maker on eBay several months and not from hundreds fraudulent bids. “They probably think its brand is stronger when they hide the fraud.”
Mr. Priebe, lives in Pueblo, Colo., does not wait for someone else to solve the problem. Like other supervisors eBay, he systematically securities eBay, believes it offers are fraudulent and sends e-mails to persons, are bidding on a false article in custody
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