eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman said increasingly sophisticated Internet scams were eroding the trust of online shoppers and hurting e-commerce.
She also called on industry leaders to work together more closely at a time when legitimate businesses must thwart global criminal organizations vying for control over sensitive financial data traveling across the Internet.
“Security on the Net is actually an arms race in its most classic form,” she said. “As we build sophisticated tools and fraud models to keep the bad guys out, the bad guys just come up with new ways to target us.”
Whitman said a particularly vexing challenge is safeguarding Internet users from “phishers,” who try to obtain sensitive personal information by masquerading as a trusted Web site or e-mailer. These scams, Whitman said, are eroding the trust of Internet shoppers and hurting e-commerce.
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Jack on March 14th, 2007 at 3:21 am
Isn’t that kind of obvious? I know my father won’t use eBay because of what he hears on the news about phishers and sellers not delivering.
Yahoo has the right idea on this. They will verrify if an e-mail came from who they said. If I get an unverrified PayPal or eBay e-mail, it gets marked as spam.
marcel on March 14th, 2007 at 6:18 am
I posted these solutions on
http://diarist.com/marcel/how-get-rid-scams-ebay
Solutions:
1. Ebay should start it’s own email service. And stipulate that buyers and sellers send and receive their email from the Ebay service.
2. Only valid links to and from Ebay would be allowed within the email. All other links should be stripped from the email messages.
3. Ebay should create it’s own Instant Messaging service strips external text.
Marcel
http://www.diarist.com