Hello,
This Article was forwarded to me by an ebay member.
It's an eye opener and shows how easy it is to fool the ebay system.
ebay will have to take appropriate steps to ensure that there is no room for such Frauds.
This is in today's news paper Indian Express the link is
www.newindpress.com
on the left hand side there will be a coloumn called city
Click on Chennai
This article will be there
date:1-4-2006
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Plus two drop out pulls wool over online pundits
Saturday April 1 2006 10:13 IST
CHENNAI: The story of Mohan Raj, a plus-two dropout, from Tirupur could be straight out of a Hollywood thriller. The officials of the Cyber Crime Cell of Central Crime Branch of city police, who arrested the youth on Thursday, are now dumbstruck over the ingenuity ease with which this 25-year-old had swindled lakhs of rupees from eBay, an online trading website, over the last two years.
The evidence he left behind each time he made an online transaction using stolen credit card information, which generated bills for the genuine owners of the cards, got the police on his trail.
His modus operandi is this: Mohan Raj registered as 10 different ‘sellers’ with eBay and hosted different items for sale. Then, using stolen credit card information, he ‘bought’ those items through online auctions making eBay pay up the value of the purchase to the ‘seller’.
Baalu, Assistant Commissioner of CCB, who is in charge of the Cyber Crime Cell, told this website's newspaper: ‘‘The operators of eBay are baffled when more than 28 persons from different parts of Tamil Nadu approached them complaining that they had been receiving credit card bills for the products which they had not purchased through the site. The eBay operators lodged a complaint with CCB.’’
He said ‘‘Mohan Raj had taken 13 SIM cards and had provided the numbers as contact information for his different seller addresses. He then availed the call diversion facility and routed all the calls to a number. The most intriguing part of the case is Mohan Raj’s complete understanding of the working of eBay site,’’ Baalu said.
Mohan Raj had a personal computer and a laptop with broadband connectivity. Using these he had cheated many credit card holders as well as the company. ‘‘Mohan Raj has a keen understanding of the online trade and has misused it to commit a fraud,’’ Baalu said.
Though the case posed a challenge initially given the fact that the online purchases appeared legitimately done through credit card transactions, the Cyber Crime Cell had picked up Mohan Raj’s trail in a short time. ‘‘We suspected that the payment of all these purchases were going to one person. So we gave instructions to eBay that the address for the payment for the last purchase should be sent to us and we tracked the address to Tirupur and arrested Mohan Raj when he received the payment.
Investigations are on to check how Mohan Raj acquired the credit card information, which were vital for online purchases. ‘‘We do not know the source of the information. We also suspect the involvement of a group which may have provided these information to Mohan Raj,’’ he said.
This is only the second such case in the whole country, after the Hyderabad case. ‘‘But, that was a purchase fraud, where the credit card details were stolen from a petrol bunk and were used for purchasing goods over internet,’’ Baalu said. .
http://stores.ebay.in/IndConcepts
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This Article was forwarded to me by an ebay member.
It's an eye opener and shows how easy it is to fool the ebay system.
ebay will have to take appropriate steps to ensure that there is no room for such Frauds.
This is in today's news paper Indian Express the link is
www.newindpress.com
on the left hand side there will be a coloumn called city
Click on Chennai
This article will be there
date:1-4-2006
I am pasting a copy of that article.....
Plus two drop out pulls wool over online pundits
Saturday April 1 2006 10:13 IST
CHENNAI: The story of Mohan Raj, a plus-two dropout, from Tirupur could be straight out of a Hollywood thriller. The officials of the Cyber Crime Cell of Central Crime Branch of city police, who arrested the youth on Thursday, are now dumbstruck over the ingenuity ease with which this 25-year-old had swindled lakhs of rupees from eBay, an online trading website, over the last two years.
The evidence he left behind each time he made an online transaction using stolen credit card information, which generated bills for the genuine owners of the cards, got the police on his trail.
His modus operandi is this: Mohan Raj registered as 10 different ‘sellers’ with eBay and hosted different items for sale. Then, using stolen credit card information, he ‘bought’ those items through online auctions making eBay pay up the value of the purchase to the ‘seller’.
Baalu, Assistant Commissioner of CCB, who is in charge of the Cyber Crime Cell, told this website's newspaper: ‘‘The operators of eBay are baffled when more than 28 persons from different parts of Tamil Nadu approached them complaining that they had been receiving credit card bills for the products which they had not purchased through the site. The eBay operators lodged a complaint with CCB.’’
He said ‘‘Mohan Raj had taken 13 SIM cards and had provided the numbers as contact information for his different seller addresses. He then availed the call diversion facility and routed all the calls to a number. The most intriguing part of the case is Mohan Raj’s complete understanding of the working of eBay site,’’ Baalu said.
Mohan Raj had a personal computer and a laptop with broadband connectivity. Using these he had cheated many credit card holders as well as the company. ‘‘Mohan Raj has a keen understanding of the online trade and has misused it to commit a fraud,’’ Baalu said.
Though the case posed a challenge initially given the fact that the online purchases appeared legitimately done through credit card transactions, the Cyber Crime Cell had picked up Mohan Raj’s trail in a short time. ‘‘We suspected that the payment of all these purchases were going to one person. So we gave instructions to eBay that the address for the payment for the last purchase should be sent to us and we tracked the address to Tirupur and arrested Mohan Raj when he received the payment.
Investigations are on to check how Mohan Raj acquired the credit card information, which were vital for online purchases. ‘‘We do not know the source of the information. We also suspect the involvement of a group which may have provided these information to Mohan Raj,’’ he said.
This is only the second such case in the whole country, after the Hyderabad case. ‘‘But, that was a purchase fraud, where the credit card details were stolen from a petrol bunk and were used for purchasing goods over internet,’’ Baalu said. .
http://stores.ebay.in/IndConcepts
.
Hi,
eBay should be more carefull and should not allow these things to happen in future. ---------------
With Regards,
Navaneeth (snrama) 😉
eBay should be more carefull and should not allow these things to happen in future. ---------------
With Regards,
Navaneeth (snrama) 😉
Good idea Sapana,
srjsms, Its not so easy to crack and find the security code.
If would so, then nobody would have opted for the credit cards. ---------------
With Regards,
Navaneeth (snrama) 😉
srjsms, Its not so easy to crack and find the security code.
If would so, then nobody would have opted for the credit cards. ---------------
With Regards,
Navaneeth (snrama) 😉
