Web auctions fertile ground for criminals
Published January 28th, 2006
An unemployed Reno man jailed last week on fraud charges allegedly made his living from cashing checks mailed by eBay bidders who thought they were purchasing his laptop computers, Reno police said.But authorities allege David Kazish never sent the bidders the computers, nor did he intend to.He did cash the checks, police said, which totaled more than $45,000 from at least 60 people nationwide, including San Francisco and Portland, Ore.
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