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17 November 2005

The saga of the (alleged) ebay fraud continues [More:]I'm fascinated by this.
Jesus. Between that and the Hoyt Puppet Theatre, it's been Crazy Revelation Week. Is this because of November sweeps?
posted by cobra! 17 November | 14:34
Yeah, so am I, thanks for posting this in an easy to find place. It bothers me alot more than I thought it would that some scammer would use AskMe to refine his technique. And it was incredibly stupid of him to think he'd get away with it.
posted by fenriq 17 November | 14:34
To use the scam he's enquiring about on someone who actually subscribes to mefi...

What a moron.
posted by urbanwhaleshark 17 November | 14:41
The scammed person signed up for MeFi after several people emailed him/her a link to the thread.
posted by agropyron 17 November | 14:48
Actually, ubranwhaleshark, the scammee joined mefi after someone directed him to the askme thread.

I just can't believe that airnxtz thought that the mefi braintrust was smart enough to help him work the angles for his scam, but not smart enough to realize it was a scam.
posted by jrossi4r 17 November | 14:50
Oh. Well he's still a moron.
posted by urbanwhaleshark 17 November | 14:50
cobra!, the "Hoyt Puppet Theatre", that's awesome. My brain is still struggling to wrap itself around that one.

The ebay scam is very interesting to follow, and not a heck of a lot seems to have changed with fraud departments in the six years since I worked in one in terms of responsiveness. It would be kind of nice if this could tip the balance in the victim/victims' favor.

For all of our collective gnashing of teeth regarding MeFi, it does facilitate some pretty incredible things.
posted by Frisbee Girl 17 November | 14:56
I have been watching that ebay askme thread like a trainwreck for days.

I still can't believe ebay hasn't closed his account!
posted by kellydamnit 17 November | 14:58
Because 10% or whatever it is of illgotten gains is still 10%.
posted by PinkStainlessTail 17 November | 16:46
I can't believe that airnxtz would be so daft. Not only did he use a highly popular online forum like AskMe to help his fraud business, he/she is silly enough to leave online fingerprints everywhere with his handle of choice.

D'oh! Advice for the budding crook: use different handles for your nefarious deeds. Use many throw away email accounts, not the same AOL account. Use an anonymizing proxy for the times when you are really dumb and attract the attention of a web site administrator.

And for Pete's sake, separate your online fraud business from your day to day online minutia!

Of course, if you could figure all this out, you wouldn't be a penny-ante crook.

Jeez.
posted by teece 17 November | 18:12
Heh. Would you trust anybody with such an oafish mien?

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That's the guy... amazing what Google turns up.
posted by killdevil 18 November | 00:20
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