Did anyone watch tonight with trevor mcdonald watch dog? Regarding ebay fraud, there was a young guy who has conned people out of thousands of pounds and is going to jail thank god. But this youth has said when he comes out of jail he wants to work for microsoft or even ebay. The interviewer of this programme then went to ebay and asked if they would give him a job and ebay have said they would like to talk to him, even in jail. I said to my husband what sort of message does this give out to people and his response was ' crime pays' exactly i am absolutley disgusted. The horrible little criminal then went on to say if he could pay people back he would, i think he should now wether it's 10p a week or £10.00. Any how did anyone else watch it and you remember the boys name as i would like to write to watch dog. Which i will anyway but i thought it would be better if i knew his name.

I saw the first part of it. I think ebays thinking would be along the lines of 'set a thief to catch a thief'. If employing him can help them catch other criminals then maybe it's not all bad? He's obviously a very clever young man who needs to be guided in the right direction. Really I think they should pay back the people he defrauded out of his wages - that would be justice   :)

It probably a case of keep your friends close and your enemies even closer ;)

the FBI did this with one of the hackers that got into there web site they employed him to help deal with other hackers and to build a better security systems than they already had, saying as he had already hacked into it.
carol

I don't care get how clever he is, he is still being rewarded for causing other people misery. I don't think it takes a genius to sell an item that doesn't exist on ebay. It was ebays slackness in not following up complaints. This boy sold things from the same address all the way through and never sent the items on. Sorry just feeling a bit passionate about this :)

all of the anti virus companies employ people who have spent their lives writing viruses and attacking peoples computers as they are the people with the knowledge of how to stop them - i assume eBay is thinking along the same lines

I also know someone who is now employed by Microsoft who used to hack and copy / sell their software and generally come up with all sorts of ways of using their sortware for free - now they pay him a fortune to help them stop other people doing it

I saw this & in fact he was NOT clever atall. he wasnt doing anything cunning or clever to decieve people he was just plain thief pretending to have goods for sale which he didnt have. in actuall fact he came across as incredibly thick :) & hopefully he gets what he deserves, although in these days of nanny state & softly-softly, then i doubt he will :(

Thats exactly what i thought, he didn't come across clever nor was he doing anything that anyone else without morals couldn't do. Even if he did get a job with ebay there is no way he can tell from just looking at listing if someone is a conman.

>Any how did anyone else watch it and you remember the boys name as i would like to write to watch dog.

His name is on here...

http://tinyurl.com/cz99y

He says "I do apologise to them and deep down I am sorry for doing it and if I could I would pay them back, definitely." That's exactly what he should be made to do. Work for Ebay and hand over his wage till every victim is paid in full. I bet that doesn't happen though. :-(

Ebay's head of safety and security says ""I'd say as soon as we were aware we clamped down."  Funny how he conned another £8,000 out of his victims after being convicted the first time then!  They don't really care about their customers as long as they are making their millions.

My son ordered a ticket for his mate costing £200 which never arrived. He was too late to complain through Paypal (admittedly his own fault.. he thought the time limit was the same as the Ebay system) so then went through Ebay. They told him to get conformation from Paypal to say he hadn't claimed through them. When he tried, Paypal said "leave it with us, we'll sort out your claim". He's contacted them since and they say they're still taking action but I doubt he'll ever get it and of course the time limit has run out so they'll probably use that excuse now. :-( Months later and he's still waiting. :-(

Kath.

Thankyou Kath i do feel sorry for your son and the other people who have been conned out money.

It is like the programme on television when they see how safe your house would be to a burglar.  They actually have an ex-burglar on there who tries to break in to your house, and then they tell you what you could do to improve the security of your property.  I must admit a few of the things they say "window locks etc", we had these and we still got burgled, they used a metal object to prise the window out and the locks were of no use at all.

Anyway the point is that this ex-burglar now makes a job out of telling people how not to be burgled.  So if the ebay "scamster" can help people, then why not!

Sadly this is normal practice. Banks have been employing people who have defrauded them for many years.