Online retailers including eBay, consider forming 'fraudster coalition'
An informal coalition of online retailers including the Carsales network, Drive.com.au and eBay is mulling plans to share information on fraudsters who attempt to rip off consumers. Carsales.com general manager of trust and safety Lindsay Ellen said the sites have found ways to share data without exposing sensitive corporate information.
“We wanted to own the discussion and share data with our competitors – what we had started to learn and what else was out there,” Ellen told delegates at the Security on the Move conference in Melbourne last week.
She said fraud was considered a “dirty word” in the industry and there was previously little discussion of the problem. The retailers were also discussing ways to share the data with law enforcement agencies.
