Wow! Nasty.
Kind of a round about way to do credit card fraud, but on the other hand it puts the trail onto the hapless guys who paid for the items on eBay. I suppose eGolds records would just lead to some post office box or even worse, general delivery and i'm sure a battery of lawyers would be required to even get that far. New day, different scam!
I hope you went to the eBay forums with your info, I suppose eBay will do nothing to warn anybody (scams never happen on eBay!).
Any idea how your credit card info got to the scammer?
Gary Fisher
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Original Message (edited for brevity)is below:
Message: 39
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:37:23 -0600
From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Subject: FYI: identity theft
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Bound to happen! A few odd charges showed up on my business
credit card. I caught it quickly, then went into gumshoe mode.
Received on Tue Nov 23 2004 - 16:25:35 GMT
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