Archive for July 31st, 2006

  • Bots Now Scaming eBayers

    Scammers are using bots to create bogus eBay accounts that boast trustworthy profiles in a new scheme to rip off buyers, a security company said Monday.The scam, said Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Fortinet, is a new twist on an old con where criminals set up bogus auctions, rake in the proceeds, and then scram, never intending to […]

  • EBay Stock Forcast Still Negative

    I started writing about eBay for Blogging Stocks in mid-June, only a month and half ago, when eBay was still over $30 a share. It’s now trading under $24.I kept noticing this downtrend, aware of investors concerns, but never 100% sure why the sentiment was so negative. Especially after Q2 earnings report. I thought that […]

  • EBay Cracks Down on Policy Violators

    EBay’s enforcers cracked down last month on Julie Ann Brown, a marketing professor who sells prayer cards and Victorian paper in her spare time.She had violated a policy against bidding on one of her own items, or “shill bidding,” an incident she acknowledges took place but said was an accident that should be outweighed by […]

  • EBay opens up 15 Million Share Tied to Skype

     EasyBourse
    Friday registered about 15 million shares of common stock for sale from time to time by certain selling stockholders.
    The shares were originally issued to the selling stockholders in connection with eBay’s acquisition of Skype Technologies SA, a Luxembourg-based Internet phone service company, last October.
    The online auction company said it won’t receive any proceeds from the […]

  • PayPal and eBay Are Targeted 75% of the Time

     Money Control Tech Blog
    Sophos has revealed that over 75% of all phishing emails are targeting users of PayPal or eBay.
    Experts at SophosLabs scanned all phishing email messages received in the company’s global network of spam traps during 2006, and have revealed that 54.3% were attempting to steal information from users of PayPal. The second most […]