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This is really bad advice, but remember that two can play at this game. You have this idiot's real name and address, as well as the make and model of the car th

This is really bad advice, but remember that two can play at this game. You have this idiot's real name and address, as well as the make and model of the car they drive. Food for thought.

filoleg 7y ago
The story is a bit more complicated (but not by much), however, there is absolutely nothing I can do here. What am I gonna do, show up to some address in South Atlanta demanding whoever lives there to stop using my eBay account without authorization? And that's with the strong assumption that the person whose name and address was used is the same person who actually accessed my account (for all I know, the person living at that address could be totally unaware). EBay has all the info on the perp, but they decided to do nothing, and I am not going to start a civil lawsuit because of $1.2k that got refunded to me pretty much instantly. Just for the sake of satisfying my own curiosity, I looked further (back when it all happened) into the person who hacked into my account and found some interesting stuff. The perp took some measures to cover their steps, but it was done very poorly: 1. The name and address used for the purchase belonged to a woman who lived at the address used for delivery in South Atlanta (verified that). I decided to check her social media, and saw that she held a job as a nurse or something like that, with nothing suspicious pointing at her actually being the perp. Her account looked pretty "professional" and normal. 2. Suspiciously enough, she didn't even have a Hyundai Genesis car, which is what the parts were ordered for. But then I noticed something interesting. 3. There was a guy appearing in a lot of her pics that looked like he was her bf. He didn't seem to have a job listed anywhere on any of his social media. He did, however, happened to own a 2012 Hyundai Genesis coupe. Also, most of his FB profile pics were either selfies or of his car or of him brandishing guns (mostly in his bedroom, all while displaying poor trigger discipline), which is not really damning on its own, but in the context, it definitely doesn't play in his favor. Which leads me to a reasonable hypothesis that the guy who got access to my account used the name and address of his gf to ship the car parts he fraudulently bought, so that she takes the fall in case the authorities decide to investigate.
- justanotherc 7y ago
  Also as you alluded to, it doesn't sound like someone worth confronting at his house lol.
  - Infernal 7y ago
    Friends don't let friends confront fraudsters with poor trigger discipline.
gefh 7y ago
Quite possibly an innocent address the fraudster is using as a dead drop.
- filoleg 7y ago
  Yup, that's as much as I confirmed myself, if you take a look at my other comment in the thread. It seems like the fraudster used the name and address of his gf as the shipping info.

This is really bad advice, but remember that two can play at this game. You have this idiot's real name and address, as well as the make and model of the car they drive. Food for thought.

filoleg 7y ago

The story is a bit more complicated (but not by much), however, there is absolutely nothing I can do here. What am I gonna do, show up to some address in South Atlanta demanding whoever lives there to stop using my eBay account without authorization? And that's with the strong assumption that the person whose name and address was used is the same person who actually accessed my account (for all I know, the person living at that address could be totally unaware). EBay has all the info on the perp, but they decided to do nothing, and I am not going to start a civil lawsuit because of $1.2k that got refunded to me pretty much instantly. Just for the sake of satisfying my own curiosity, I looked further (back when it all happened) into the person who hacked into my account and found some interesting stuff. The perp took some measures to cover their steps, but it was done very poorly: 1. The name and address used for the purchase belonged to a woman who lived at the address used for delivery in South Atlanta (verified that). I decided to check her social media, and saw that she held a job as a nurse or something like that, with nothing suspicious pointing at her actually being the perp. Her account looked pretty "professional" and normal. 2. Suspiciously enough, she didn't even have a Hyundai Genesis car, which is what the parts were ordered for. But then I noticed something interesting. 3. There was a guy appearing in a lot of her pics that looked like he was her bf. He didn't seem to have a job listed anywhere on any of his social media. He did, however, happened to own a 2012 Hyundai Genesis coupe. Also, most of his FB profile pics were either selfies or of his car or of him brandishing guns (mostly in his bedroom, all while displaying poor trigger discipline), which is not really damning on its own, but in the context, it definitely doesn't play in his favor. Which leads me to a reasonable hypothesis that the guy who got access to my account used the name and address of his gf to ship the car parts he fraudulently bought, so that she takes the fall in case the authorities decide to investigate.

justanotherc 7y ago
Also as you alluded to, it doesn't sound like someone worth confronting at his house lol.
- Infernal 7y ago
  Friends don't let friends confront fraudsters with poor trigger discipline.

gefh 7y ago

Quite possibly an innocent address the fraudster is using as a dead drop.

filoleg 7y ago
Yup, that's as much as I confirmed myself, if you take a look at my other comment in the thread. It seems like the fraudster used the name and address of his gf as the shipping info.