Government Agencies Urge More Vigilance on Auction Scams

We’ve been writing about online auction scams for 20 years, but despite greater security by the auction companies and law enforcement agencies, they continue unabated.

In fact, these scams have become more sophisticated and convincing, so they still snare thousands of people every year all over the world.

Just a few weeks ago, in the UK, a man was jailed for two years after setting up an eBay account in the name of his five-year-old son and scamming victims out of more than $150,000 for non-existent car parts.

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