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Can You Identify An Ebay Scammer Without a Court Order?

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Published: 10May2011
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Everyday millions of people use online auction sites, the most popular one without a doubt is Ebay. But many of the people that buy and sell on these sites are out to scam other people out of their money. Although the auction sites do take precautions and give many warnings to their users the scammers still seem to find a way to separate gullible people from their money.

Now the question we will address in this article will not be dealing with how to avoid getting scammed on Ebay. It's going to deal with what steps you can take to locate and identify your scammer. In future articles we will discuss prevention but for now since so many people seem to ignore the warnings let's focus on the solutions.

Years ago when Ebay first launched their online auction site on the Internet they were very cooperative with law enforcement and private investigators in revealing their users identities. All I had to do was fax over a request on my PI letterhead describing my clients problem and within a few hours I'd get a fax back revealing the offending Ebay users identification. Naturally I was a hero to all my clients that had been scammed on Ebay.

Around 2000 all this ended dramatically. Ebay would only reveal members information if they were served with a court order to do so. This can be a very laborious task. Many times you cannot file a police report of lawsuit unless you know who the other person is and you can't find out who they are until you have a court case going. It's a catch 22.

But that does not mean it is no longer possible to ID a person on Ebay or other auction sites. The ironic part is that for an auction site scammer to ply his trade he has to step outside the procedures used by the auction site. Meaning they must use an alternate communication and payment methods. This is their downfall.

These alternate methods can be traced and the thief or con man can be identified. very little information is needed. An email address, Paypal account, Western Union Transaction number, unlisted cell phone numbers. All these things can be tracked and traced right to the con mans door step. Now getting justice through the legal system or getting your funds returned may be a whole other matter and a subject we will deal wit in future articles regarding judgement recovery and asset search investigations.

Ed Opperman is president of Opperman investigations. If you need a reverse email search to locate a con man, bail jumper, runaway or parental kidnapper please visit www.emailrevealer.com.

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