Vladuz the Phishing Impaler Sticks It to eBay

This MedVed graph, courtesy of Dotyou.com, shows the spikes in eBay listings beginning in February.

For comparison sake, this MedVed graph, also courtesy of Dotyou.com, shows what, a year ago, typical eBay listing movement looked like before its recent changed behavior.

For comparison sake, this MedVed graph, also courtesy of Dotyou.com, shows what, a year ago, typical eBay listing movement looked like before its recent changed behavior.

The trend of spiking listings culminated with Vladuz temporarily unveiling his or her auctions to the public, Livingston said. You can see at screen bottom left, screenshot courtesy of Dotyou.com, where an arrow points to the handle spelled backwards. Vla

This image, courtesy of The Auction Guild, is a sample of the eBay accounts Vladuz has made available to the scammer marketplace, graphically signed by the scammer, who also copyrights his work. The Auction Guild believes that Vladuz may hav

Vladuz has posted on several eBay chat boards using eBay employee IDs or creating his/her own eBay employee IDs, such as this posting on the eBay developers board, courtesy of The Auction Guild.

A sample of how one of Vladuzs tools creates log-in pages that mimic eBays. According to written instructions signed (and copyrighted) by Vladuz, this scam presents an identical login/sign-in page to eBays. If user and/or password are invalid, it also