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Re: How We Can mess Up Ebay Scammers

To: TR <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: How We Can mess Up Ebay Scammers
From: Geo Hahn <ahwahnee@cybertrails.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:33:27 -0700
Bill Brewer wrote:

>...What Ebay and PayPal should do
>is ask EVERYONE to respond, but give bogus information. The scammers would be
>left with a lifetime of bogus data to sort through and have to give up on this
>scam. Why isn't this happening?
>

On a slow day I tried that posing as something like eBay user 'DropDead' 
with password 'BiteMe' etc.  Problem was when it wanted my credit card 
number -- there seemed to be some intelligence in that number (check 
digit? parity check?) that the bogus number I gave (using a valid first 
4 digits which identify the type of card) wasn't acceptable.

Geo H



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