[ale] [OT] FYI: faked ebay seller profiles

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Fri Jan 23 18:37:52 EST 2004


I usually look at the seller's history page.  I'm sure that can not be
faked.


On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 18:16, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> A German news show reports that some ebay sellers fake their
> seller profiles by adding javascripts to their description.
> 
> This apparently allows them to exchange all data in the
> seller profile and add faked positive feedback. 
>   
> Disabling javascript and reloading the pages is recommended.
> 
> Link in German:
> http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID2858696_REF4,00.html
> 
> 
> 	Stephan
> 
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