Citizen-Oriented Campaign Takes on eBay Spam Scammers

Citizen-Oriented Campaign Takes on eBay Spam Scammers

"I hate the word vigilante. I like citizen-oriented campaign. There's a group of smart people who are tired of being taken advantage of."
-- Jerry A Smith, CTO, Symphony Services Corp.

Smith traced the domain ID of spam scammers who send messages under phony eBay Inc. accounts to trick unknowing victims into divulging personal information. Then he logged in to these accounts as an administrator and deleted these scammers' files.

This was first published in April 2007