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Calgary man loses $20K after eBay sale hijacked
CBC News ^ | December 3, 2007
Posted on 12/03/2007 12:09:48 PM PST by george76
RCMP investigator says eBay trying to hide scam problem.

A Calgary man is one of 1,000 Canadians who have been scammed on eBay through a tactic known as hijacking, and the RCMP says the online auction service is not co-operating with their criminal investigations.

Shaqir Duraj, a Calgary bakery owner, won an eBay auction for a car in early October. He thought he was dealing with a reputable seller with a 98 per cent customer satisfaction rating.

When Duraj complained to eBay, the company wrote him a letter saying someone had temporarily taken over, or hijacked, the seller’s page, and that he would have to contact police and the FBI.

About 1,000 Canadians have reported being victims of a similar scam since 2000...

Robertson said eBay is trying to hide the problem and has not returned any of his phone calls.

“They don’t want to share this intelligence,” he said. “I don’t think it will be in the best interest of eBay to say that X number of Canadian consumers have been the victim of a fraud.”

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