Tuesday, August 1, 2006

Scammers deploy Bots for eBay manipulation

Via Vuunet.com -

Scammers have turned to automated bots to create Ebay accounts with a positive feedback record, reports security vendor Fortinet.

Online criminals use the automated scripts or bots to create vast collections of user accounts with positive feedback records. Those accounts can then be used to attract buyers by offering high value items that are never delivered after the bot-master criminals have received payments.




It was only a matter of time. Scammers and phishers have fine-tuned their social engineering skills in the last couple of years. Phishing sites are becoming more "real" as more and more of them use account checking scripts and IE toolbar spoofing.

They know what it takes to trick the normal person and usually don't take the time to trick the "good guys". Many times, I see comments in the phish page itself that tell me when and where they mirrored the site from. This is nice, since some of the phish are focused on local regional brands.

The backend control scripts normally contain any e-mail addresses used and perhaps their group name...

I always love to see comments like C:\Documents and Settings\Claude\update-phish.php in phishing sites...lol Way to go Claude! Nice work...

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