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March 1, 2007
The eBay Police Blotter
Are you familiar with the eBay Police Blotter? According to eBay:
"The purpose of the Police Blotter is to share information with the Community about our efforts with law enforcement around the world. As you know, eBay Inc. is committed to creating a safe, well lit marketplace. When people break our policies, violate consumer trust and the law of the land, eBay and PayPal work with law enforcement agencies around the world to apprehend and prosecute fraudsters. For that reason, eBay created the Global Law Enforcement Operations team."
http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/law_case_study.html
Frankly, though, it's not very impressive at this time. But Mike Rou, an eBay spokesman says there's much more going on behind the scenes:
# We contributed to 549 arrests since January 2006, resulting in 351 prison years for the convicted criminals involved
# We disrupted a major Tanzanian theft ring responsible for stealing $6MM in Hewlett Packard servers
# We facilitated the first case between the Chinese Immigration and Customs Enforcement and China police which involved $840,000 in counterfeit DVDs
# We trained around 200 Romanian police, judges and prosecutors on how to investigate and prosecute cyber criminals
Let's hope their efforts pay off because Net fraud is a truly threatening problem and one we all need to be concerned about, both as buyers and sellers.
Posted by SydneyJohnston at March 1, 2007 8:15 PM
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