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eBay's Attempt to Tighten Its Grip on Spam with Advanced Security Technology

Posted Apr-24-08 08:07:48 PDT Updated Apr-24-08 08:09:15 PDT
It seems quite interesting and secured that eBay is trying to improve its quality and has realized its greater responsibility. Though I’m a bit late to respond to the last announcement that eBay.co.uk has made on its website as “***Protecting sellers and buyers from identity theft***” on 21st April, 2008, yet a good news for both buyers and sellers. As eBay is one of the emerging online shopping sites along with Amazon; so there always involves high risk of spam with users. It seems quite interesting way of tracking the users’ behavior on eBay. eBay.co.uk’s general announcement informs, “From today, we'll start noting the computers you regularly use when buying and selling on eBay. We'll use a combination of cookies and Flash objects to link your user ID with the computer you're using. This data is encrypted and can only be read by eBay. It doesn't include any contact information or details of eBay transactions.

Later this year, we'll begin checking the computer you use to list an item to see whether it's one of the computers you regularly use. To confirm that it's really you when you list an item using a different computer (e.g. at a friend's house, in a hotel, at the library), we'll lead you through a simple automated process where we call a phone number on your account. We might also prompt you to verify your identity in other ways.”

But I’m quite excited how the telephone confirmation works. Hope you all readers of this posting would be similarly excited as I’m. Thanks to the eBay team and their strong effort to make every buying and selling secured.
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ahbags2
telephone call? That would be annoying. I like security - like those nutty "words" some sites make you type in.
Apr-24-08 08:18:17 PDT Report this comment
gardencaredirect
Yeah I understand! They could have done better... They need to be more advanced so far ensuring security and safety of all transactions and hoax accounts. Instead of improving the technology, they have started maintaining security and safety manually. Telephone confirmation might be one of such manual attempts...
Apr-24-08 21:28:16 PDT Report this comment

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