Extortion is going to be the next wave of cyber crime. I'm convinced of that. Data held hostage, businesses threatened. Its already here actually, its just not at a critical point. I believe that eBay users will be particularly susceptible to this. I would really like to see eBay getting a program in place to educate users on how to best respond to such a situation and a cooperation with businesses to help shut down these folks as soon as possible, while preserving data for law enforcement.

I'm thinking it was probably a good move to keep the person online for as long as this person did as long as it was not a direct connection. Makes for more log entries, SHOULD anyone that can do something give a crap.

This could ALSO be an attempt to discredit a legitimate site. Whatever, in any case, it stinks.
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Just in case ebay removes the thread, here's a copy of the alleged IM: (Its NOT me talking.)
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I hope it is ok to post this here. I do not know what to do.

This is a copy of an IM (I am QueenVal32)

ullahebay [6:49 P.M.]: i guess you dont wnat your ebay business right?
ullahebay [6:49 P.M.]: do you want me to create fake bids and kill it?
ullahebay [6:50 P.M.]: if you not going to help me then i will destroy your ebay business
ullahebay [7:03 P.M.]: ok i will gohead and bid on your items
ullahebay [7:03 P.M.]: if oyu are not going to reply me with in a min
ullahebay [7:07 P.M.]: ok i've bid on your items couple of them
ullahebay [7:07 P.M.]: if i wont get a response from you
ullahebay [7:08 P.M.]: i will bid on your 200 items and make you loose your business at eBay!
QueenVal32 [7:13 P.M.]: WHO ARE YOU??
ullahebay [7:13 P.M.]: i want you to give me all the email addresses that you have in your "sold" file
ullahebay [7:14 P.M.]: if you wont give it to me, i will destroy your ebay business
QueenVal32 [7:14 P.M.]: why would I do that??
ullahebay [7:14 P.M.]: coz i need them to tell them about my new auction site
QueenVal32 [7:14 P.M.]: why don't you just go about things the legit way?
ullahebay [7:15 P.M.]: what way?
ullahebay [7:15 P.M.]: i didnt get that
QueenVal32 [7:16 P.M.]: why do you want my sold file?
ullahebay [7:16 P.M.]: i dont want your sold file
ullahebay [7:17 P.M.]: i want the email addresses of the users at ebay that you have in your sold folder, because i have a auction website and i dont want to advertise because it cost lots of money and i can't afford that
ullahebay [7:17 P.M.]: so i want people to visit my auction site by emails

QueenVal32 [7:17 P.M.]: so you harass ME??? Why ME??
ullahebay [7:17 P.M.]: visit my new auction site, www.bidstar.net ullahebay [7:18 P.M.]: not only you, im doing it to everyone. and i've de... [ Read More (0.7k in body) ]