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BillB:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 30, 2018, 08:50:09 am ---eBay scammer is back this morning.  ...

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Last night I was perusing eBay and stumbled upon a small volume seller of apparently eclectic overstock items.  He had just listed a bunch of things including a new(open box, other) bench meter with 1 more digit of precision than what I already have at a very good price.  He only had 1 stock image (used from another auction I'm sure) and a bit of description also copied I'm sure. 

I immediately smelled a scam, and decided to message the seller to ask if he had real pictures of the item for sale, not expecting a reply.  But, a little while later I got back 4 pictures of a new looking meter in a beat up box!  :D

After partially convincing the wife that the extra 9 at the end of the string of 9's is important, and with a 15% ebay coupon I decided to buy it.  If this is a scam, it's a very good one, but I guess its worth a little time to find out.  :-//
       

Specmaster:

--- Quote from: BillB on June 30, 2018, 11:17:31 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 30, 2018, 08:50:09 am ---eBay scammer is back this morning.  ...

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Last night I was perusing eBay and stumbled upon a small volume seller of apparently eclectic overstock items.  He had just listed a bunch of things including a new(open box, other) bench meter with 1 more digit of precision than what I already have at a very good price.  He only had 1 stock image (used from another auction I'm sure) and a bit of description also copied I'm sure. 

I immediately smelled a scam, and decided to message the seller to ask if he had real pictures of the item for sale, not expecting a reply.  But, a little while later I got back 4 pictures of a new looking meter in a beat up box!  :D

After partially convincing the wife that the extra 9 at the end of the string of 9's is important, and with a 15% ebay coupon I decided to buy it.  If this is a scam, it's a very good one, but I guess its worth a little time to find out.  :-//
       

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Yeah, your protected by Ebay if its a scam. I wonder how long it will be before they remove protection if scams increase. They need to up their efforts to prevent scammers getting on Ebay in the first place.

From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]

bd139:
To be fair they're pretty good now. They could easily force 2FA on paypal and ebay accounts though. That would kill all the hacked accounts dead.

Cerebus:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 30, 2018, 08:50:09 am ---eBay scammer is back this morning.

Going to add some rules to my scripts to skip hacked sellers. The same images appear so will take SHA256 of some sample item images and then add any sellers who that appears on to my seller shitlist. Not going to bother reporting. Joy to pipelining as I can just add another step here.

Hopefully their image encoder is deterministic and idempotent.

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I forget to look for him. I meant to check for him early to get the reporting out of the way and clean up the world to avoid TEA false positives. That's what really gets me: "Ooo? Shiny! Cheap! Oh damn, him again." Just looked now and no sign of him, so someone else must have knobbled him early.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 30, 2018, 12:45:22 pm ---To be fair they're pretty good now. They could easily force 2FA on paypal and ebay accounts though. That would kill all the hacked accounts dead.

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Er, no. It would make it more difficult, though.

"Identity" is a known "hard problem". See the governments repeated attempts to introduce identity manangement - when you look at the details the "how it fails" use cases multiply and the "can be used for" cases diminish. It reminds me of the old adage, "If you think encryption will solve your problem, you don't understand encryption ans you don't understand your problem".

The credit card industry doesn't even try to authenticate identity - it, very sensibly, authenticates transactions.

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