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Comments on: Spanish police cuff 76 net fraud suspects

Hardly surprising 

Posted Monday 11th February 2008 14:14 GMT

Conning people is a national pasttime in Spain, this applies as much to those offering goods as it does to those buying. So put together one party offering something for nothing and another party who thinks the seller doesn't know the value of what they have and can get one over on them and you have the ideal location for fraud.

€3 bn ebay fraud is worth the risk 

Posted Monday 11th February 2008 14:29 GMT

If 76 people really made three billion Euro, I am going to give up moonlighting as a taxi driver. Ebay here I come - heck I´d probably only get a suspended sentence.

that's a typo there 

Posted Tuesday 12th February 2008 01:21 GMT

they managed to nick 3 million euros, not 3 billion.

did some bank phishing and posed as "hacienda" (spanish inland revenue), not just ebay stuff.

by the looks of it they also mimicked ebay's pages too.

Re: that's a typo there 

Posted Tuesday 12th February 2008 02:47 GMT

(Written by Reg staff.)

Money confusion now corrected.

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