Easy money – at first:
Dov Tenenboim, 21, of North Bondi, used his home computer to hack into at least 90 different eBay seller accounts last year, according to police.
After hacking into the eBay accounts of Wendy Runge and Kathy Gill, he sold $13,482 worth of nonexistent Apple iPod music players. After each sale he would direct his victims to pay for the goods by transferring money into the bank accounts of his accomplices.
By using other sellers’ accounts, Tenenboim was able to take advantage of their good reputation to fool buyers into thinking the deal would be good. He also hacked into the Commonwealth Bank phone and internet banking account of Hugh Devlin last August.
His main method to get access to the accounts? Guessing weak passwords. Nice work if you can get it… and don’t get caught.
Another fact I find interesting is that assuming ‘Dov Tenenboim’ is a fairly unique name, Mr Tenenboim has been a bit of a businessman too: at least once or twice. I once did a course involving the Myers-Briggs personality test where both entrepreneurs and criminals were often said to be in the same broad personality type (SP). I guess this is some nice anecdotal evidence for that claim.
