FYI: identity theft

[Gary Fisher]

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.