posted on March 3, 2004 02:13:43 PM new
February 29, 2004, 9:45 PM PST
Kenneth Walton, who pleaded guilty in 2001 to federal wire and mail fraud charges for trying to sell a fake Richard Diebenkorn painting on eBay for $135,000 in a shill-bidding scam, has run afoul of eBay again.
This time, though, it was not the authorities that did him in. It was his mom, albeit unintentionally.
At around the time Walton was charged in the bidding case, he had started a business called HammerTap, which sold software allowing eBay auctioneers to manage their sales. He registered his company's Web site in his mother's name, and otherwise kept the site's management anonymous, issuing press releases that quoted only an unnamed company spokesman.
posted on March 3, 2004 05:38:36 PM new
The Deep Analysis software he sells is pretty good stuff. I used it free for 30 days. I just couldn't justify spending $179 for it though.
