[新聞 ] 賣家網頁被「劫持」 千人中招 假eBay網買車失2萬 eBay, spam, 詐欺

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賣家網頁被「劫持」 千人中招 假eBay網買車失2萬         
2007年12月4日

【明報專訊】有人用「挾持」手法﹐在網上冒充電子海灣(eBay)拍賣網站﹐詐騙消費者﹐大約1,000個加拿大人在網上購物受騙﹐包括卡加利市1名男子。他電匯2萬元買車﹐迄今未有貨物交手。

海灣公司推說賣家網頁「被劫持」﹐皇家騎警則說﹐警方展開刑事罪行調查﹐但eBay拍賣網站不跟他們合作。

男子杜拉耶(Shaqir Duraj)在卡加利經營糕餅店﹐今年10月初﹐他在eBay拍賣網站競標﹐購得一輛汽車。他以為自己和可靠的賣主交易﹐消費者對它的滿意度達98%。

杜拉耶原是科索沃(Kosovo)難民﹐他用75元在加拿大展開新生活﹐過去也曾在海灣拍賣網競標﹐購買昂貴物品﹐包括餅店內的一個大焗爐。

他這次電匯2萬元給自認賣家的一方﹐但等了6個星期﹐他的汽車和錢都沒有下文。

杜拉耶向eBay拍賣網站投訴﹐它寫信回答說﹐有人暫時霸佔或劫持賣家的網頁﹐他要解決問題﹐可找警察和聯邦調查局。

杜拉耶談到eBay﹕「你若問我﹐我絕不再信那個商標。」

加拿大反詐欺電話中心犯罪情報及分析組皇家騎警羅伯遜(Louis Robertson)指出﹐自從2000年以來﹐大約1,000個加拿大人報案﹐說他們有類似的經歷﹐曾受人欺騙。

羅伯遜說﹐eBay企圖掩飾問題﹐他給它打電話﹐eBay都沒有回覆電話。

他說﹕「他們不願分享這個情報﹐我看eBay若說有多少個加拿大消費者受騙﹐對它不利。」

羅伯遜表示﹐他相信eBay不理警察和消費者﹐因為它不希望人們知道﹐罪犯用什麼方法侵入它的網站。他還說﹐必須收緊法例﹐網站公司才會加強責任感。

加拿大廣播公司《新聞》(CBC News)報道﹐eBay不回覆它的幾個查詢電話和電子郵件。

Catpiano

Well ..  of course target to Canadian la..  Canada is so damn rich now ..  compare to US ..  

I bought lots of stuffs from US/HK last month too .. but  damn ..   now with the visa bill ..  10% diff in exchange rate ..    ( 1 cad = 1.08 US 3 week ago .. now 1 cad = 95 cent us )

wlkm

never know the Chinese name of Ebay until now...hahhaa

nedved

電子海灣?? what a suck name !!!

I was lucky I only had one bad experience on ebay, the seller sent me the wrong computer cable. Other than that, everything is so smooth including my new digital camera around 150, that's the most expensive thing I bought on ebay.
But I still not recommend people to buy valuable thing, like jewelry. The risk is too high.

pkphilip

I was also an victim for account hi-jacking. I stopped the transaction when the seller's email does not make any sense to me.

Definitely not eBay's fault, eBay already warned people for transaction over $5000 should use escrow service. Some people want to save that $50 and now they are losing way more than that.

Due to international privacy law, eBay cannot disclose any details of the investigation to anyone. That's always their policy.

Also.. how can you buy a car without actually seeing it?

One of the newer fraud is that someone opened a new eBay account that looks very similar to a legit seller, then use email to send Second Chance Offer. Since a lot of people didn't know, they paid up and lost their money.

example... legit seller: pkphilip., fraud seller: pk.philip

Philip

blowfish

Definitely the guy had more money than brain to send 20 grand to someone unknown. The deal looks toog good to be true thats all, why would anybody sell anything for 1/2 price?