A couple of days ago I received a phishing email involving two Russian sites that asked me to reactivate my Paypal account. Dutyfully I went to the Paypal website and found a link labeled “Security Center”. I clicked on it, and the page that was served contained what I was looking for – in a [...]

For the 2nd time in about a year I ran into what appears to be a fraudulent seller on Ebay. The last time it was someone who messed up by purchasing a large lot of bad memory chips himself, but who still went ahead and sold it off on Ebay (see my earlier post about this [...]

On 2/9, Lewis Seals purchased 200 DDR memory modules on liquidation.com at $10.62 a piece. The condition was described as ‘salvage’, meaning that the modules were not functional. Mr. Seals used the user id ‘alarmacar’ for this transaction. Several days later, Mr. Seals started auctioning off these memory modules on Ebay. He used the Ebay [...]