IN JUST a month, a man made successful bids totalling US$6mil (RM22.8mil) with online auction site eBay for items valued at about US$2mil (RM7.6mil) but he had no intention of buying anything.
Using 10 of the 86 accounts he created with the site, Tan Hian Chye, 42, placed 1,908 false bids to disrupt the activities of more than 1,000 sellers in February and March 2002.
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