[Mr. G]

There is a credit card info stealing scam going around on Ebay which I became a victim of recently when making a purchase there. The thieves are able to insert themselves in the middle of the transaction which gives them access to your credit card information but otherwise they are undetected until later after they have used the credit card for very small purchases to remain under the radar of credit card companies who usually only tag larger purchases for scrutiny. In my case the first item to show up on the credit card was a taxi ride in Malysia for twenty-five cents and then several more taxi rides with the amounts slowly increasing in size. This went on for two weeks before my credit card company picked up on it and alerted me of the fraud. Ebay is aware of this happening and reportedly will not take action to prevent it. It is difficult to detect as the primary transaction still takes place and both buyers and sellers get what they are looking for out of the deal but in some cases on the credit card statement one may see the transaction is shown as being by an entity that is not the one the buyer contacted for the original sale and most just assume that it was a drop shipped item that they bought so no need for alarm when seeing that. Sadly for me, i will never buy from an ebay seller again due to this problem but want the folks here to be aware of the possibility that this is happening.