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Then how does eBay locate offenders?

AlexZ

2007-04-24, 6:19 pm

Many people here tend to feel that websites cannot get any information
about you that you didn't give yourself. I am just curious, in that
case, how do organizations like eBay catch people who have been banned
and re-register?

Ian Gregory

2007-04-24, 6:19 pm

On 2007-04-24, AlexZ <alexz@no.spam> wrote:
> Many people here tend to feel that websites cannot get any information
> about you that you didn't give yourself. I am just curious, in that
> case, how do organizations like eBay catch people who have been banned
> and re-register?

They can use the information that you gave yourself (IP addresss,
cookies, User-Agent strings etc).

If they ban a particular username and then someone registers a new
username with a cookie from their old username still set or from
the same IP address it will flag up a warning. They might then look
to see if the new user is trying to sell the same items etc.

I suspect it is normally other eBay users who spot something suspicious
and warn eBay.

Ian

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Marv

2007-04-25, 6:18 pm

Same credit cards
Same addresses
Same phone numbers

On 24 Apr 2007 19:13:53 GMT, Ian Gregory <foo@bar.invalid> wrote:

>On 2007-04-24, AlexZ <alexz@no.spam> wrote:
>
>They can use the information that you gave yourself (IP addresss,
>cookies, User-Agent strings etc).
>
>If they ban a particular username and then someone registers a new
>username with a cookie from their old username still set or from
>the same IP address it will flag up a warning. They might then look
>to see if the new user is trying to sell the same items etc.
>
>I suspect it is normally other eBay users who spot something suspicious
>and warn eBay.
>
>Ian