PORN is popping up in at least some eBay coin searches as of this morning

[James_OldeTowne]

I got on eBay and did a search for 1894 Indian head cents, and lo and behold, an explicit porn offering popped up, entitled "MY GIRL WILL DO EVERYTHING, EVEN SWALLOW", and included was an explicit image.

 

I've reported the incident to eBay, including copies of the screen images displaying the inappropriate listing. If you run across similar problems, please report them. I know that many kids browse the coin listings and don't need to be exposed to this sort of activity.

[ldhair]

Some were showing up the other day as featured auctions. That must have cost a bit.

[James_OldeTowne]

Here is a censored screen capture - look at the very bottom of the screen. When you click on the item a large and very explicit image appears.

 

[Revenant]

That's why I tend to search either just in the coins category or indexed with terms like "ngc" that aren't likely to show with non coin items.

[Conder101]

He did search in just the coins catagory. In fact his search was just in the small cents from 1859 to 1879 subcatagory. (Why he was looking for 1894 in 1859 - 79 I'm not sure. )

 

Those listings show up from time to time all over eBay. They seldom last long before eBay nukes them

[Keleum]

its a fairly common "trick" to put meta tags/java -script in your ebay auction to trick the searche engine, as a way to spam you into clicking through to some other site.

[WinstonWare]

How much did you bid?

[kryptonitecomics]

I don't think she would do anything for an 1894 Indian Head cent...I am confused???

[James_OldeTowne]

(Why he was looking for 1894 in 1859 - 79 I'm not sure. )

Actually, there was a reason! An 1894 that I had gotten outbid on was in that wrong category, and I wanted to see if there might be others that could go "under the radar".

[carson city]

Difficult to determine if you are bragging or complaining ?

[Revenant]

Difficult to determine if you are bragging or complaining ?

 

Only you would consider this "bragging" I think. What precisely would he be bragging about? He isn't the one that listed it, he just saw it (and clicked on it apparently).

[James_OldeTowne]

Difficult to determine if you are bragging or complaining ?

Carson City, sorry about the difficulty. I hope you figure it out.

[nwcs]

Some were showing up the other day as featured auctions. That must have cost a bit.

I doubt it was their money. I'd give odds to a stolen account or credit card.

 

Junk like this should be eliminated and I think the people who put junk like this on ebay and similar should be eliminated.

[conqueror]

I will be truthful with everyone here that I do like porn, but not when I'm looking for coins. I don't collect coins because I find them sexy and I do agree with everyone that things like this should be banned from ebay.

 

John

[TomB]

It was a phishing scam that has been going on through ebay for over a year. The "seller" redirects your browser and you must login again to view the auction, thereby giving away your ebay ID and password. If anyone fell for this they should immediately change their ebay password and think about monitoring their ebay-linked credit card.