Buyer Beware: iPod auctions on eBay

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Buyer Beware: iPod auctions on eBay

Brigid Alverson of the Melrose Free Press has written an article about John Cameron, a computer crimes detective in Melrose, Virginia who’s done everything from impersonating a 14-year-old girl online, capturing computer con artists, and stopping credit card fraud.

“Online auction fraud is the other crime that keeps Cameron busy. “Every department has a couple of cases they are working on,” he said. In one case, the winning bid for a new Apple iPod was $200, far less than the list price. The deal was too good to be true: The seller used a stolen credit card to buy the Ipod directly from Apple and had it shipped to the buyer, Cameron said. “It comes back as a stolen credit card, he walks away with $200 cash, and the credit-card company gets stiffed for the $400 or $500 dollars it costs for the iPod,” Cameron said.”

There is also an active thread in the forums about eBay auctions gone bad.

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Dude… that was the worst timing ever. id LITERALY just hit the “Buy it now button” for a new ipod and my little RSS feed thing poped up in the bottom of my screen “Buyer Beware: iPod auctions on eBay” .. thanks for that.

Posted by M@rK on July 17, 2003 at 8:43 AM (PDT)

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