6 eBay Executives And Employees Charged With Sending Threats, Bloody Pig Mask To Natick Couple
Source: CBS
Six former eBay executives and employees are facing federal charges after they allegedly led a cyberstalking campaign against a Natick couple they believed was critical of the company in an online ecommerce newsletter.
U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said the eBay employees harassment included sending the couple disturbing deliveries that included a bloody pig mask, a box of live cockroaches, and a funeral wreath. The employees also allegedly sent anonymous threatening messages and traveled to Massachusetts to conduct covert surveillance of the victims.
It was a determined, systematic effort of senior employees of a major company to destroy the lives of a couple in Natick, all because they published content company executives didnt like, said Lelling. James Baugh, 45, of San Jose, California, eBays former director of safety and security and former eBay director of global resiliency David Harville, 48, of New York City, were among the six charged Monday. Also charged were Stephanie Popp, 32, of San Jose; Stephanie Stockwell, 26, of Redwood City, Calif.; Veronica Zeak, 26, of San Jose; and Brian Gilbert, 51, of San Jose. Each is charged with conspiracy to commit cyberstalking and conspiracy to tamper with witnesses.
These deliveries included fly larvae and live spiders, a box of live cockroaches, a sympathy wreath on the occasion of the death of a loved one, a book of advice on how to survive the death of a spouse, pornography mailed to their next door neighbors but in the couples names, Halloween masks featuring the face of the bloody pig, and the pig fetus which was ordered, but after an inquiry by the supplier, thankfully, wasnt ever sent, Lelling said.
Read more: https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/06/15/ebay-employees-arrested-u-s-attorney-andrew-lelling-cyberstalking/
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,462 posts)Creates the toxic work environment by promoting sociopathy.
Profit needs to be put under the well being of people and the planet. If executives,and CEOs refuse to put people first for real take thier corporate charter and destroy it.
RKP5637
(67,088 posts)Beakybird
(3,330 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)They should also be charged with cruelty to animals. And ordered to undergo psych evaluations.
Delphinus
(11,825 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,062 posts)Buyers have gamed the system. I got shaken down this week. Sellers aren't always on the up and up. I got a substitute part this week.
People laugh and ridicule me - lightly - because I don't use Amazon and proclaim the glory days of the internet behind us.
So this group of tech giant munchkins have reaffirmed my belief that bricks and mortar ain't dead.
The tactics read like they were invented in Midsomer Murders.
Interesting that the men were older, and women a generation younger.
appalachiablue
(41,103 posts)the age difference between the men and women. 'Not nice people,' ya think. Whoa.
bucolic_frolic
(43,062 posts)And what a defense strategy!
"I was just trying to impress the ladies, Your Honor!"
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)The buyer just has to say the item wasn't as described to get a refund. Sure they are supposed to send it back, but nothing prevents them from sending back a brick. I stopped selling stuff on there because it was too stressful. Large sellers might be able to absorb those losses, but small sellers can't handle it.
matt819
(10,749 posts)Not only that, but I just can't buy assertions that people can earn in the 6 figures on Amazon.
I was an Amazon seller for just over two years. After the monthly and per item fees, I never made any money. Pricing is a race to the bottom, and if Amazon carries the product there is no way I can match the price, especially with Prime. I canceled my account last year and see no reason to reconsider.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,457 posts)and dirty tricks department should have its corporate charter revoked, and the entire comp[any disbanded.
ancianita
(35,943 posts)as if corporate surveillance hasn't been around for a long time. eBay, a Fortune 500 company, and is in good company when it comes to surveillance.
2naSalit
(86,333 posts)erronis
(15,185 posts)obligations to the shareholders (if it is a C-Corp).
Maybe my statement is a bit too broadly-painted, but this has been the excuse of the C-suites to cover their ruthless tactics.
It's the bottom line.
The quarter's results.
The yearly results.
The return-on-investment.
Rarely does a publicly-traded company talk about "doing good" for people/world/customers.
barbtries
(28,770 posts)i'm at a loss for words. i'm supposing that each of these suspects are educated professionals?
hard to process.
erronis
(15,185 posts)the first two: educated (even with fake credentials) and professional (whatever that means.)
Business aka capitalism doesn't want ethics. In fact it gives you demerits if you display ethics.
Harvard and many other institutions have built up their tidy endowments by bestowing MBAs for courses totally devoid of ethics. Same can probably be said for many other segments including, unfortunately, the medical profession. The ultimate example of throwing out ethics is the current legal and law-enforcement "professions".
Until we get back to realizing that what we're dealing with are people with real lives, no matter which side of the desk you are sitting; until we treat each other as equal humans, we will continue to fail. And our society and world will fail.
barbtries
(28,770 posts)i've often pondered how it is that these people can be comfortable siphoning off the wealth of the nation on the backs of poor and struggling people. How they square their boundless greed with the reality of poverty and the wealth gap widening to an unsustainable level. Why corporate america values the "shareholder" more than the people actually doing the work. I have more or less concluded that their education contributed to their lack of conscience, that by some twisted measure they feel they are fulfilling their role in this respect.
Not limited to the US I'm sure, but whew, we are one sick nation.
erronis
(15,185 posts)without feeling some sense of guilt.
They are also in survival mode. They think their world is threatened by an imminent (rapture/non-white/non-xian/youthful/liberal) onslaught.
They head towards their bunkers. If in the top 0.01% perhaps in New Zealand. Poorer ones (top 0.1%) in underground cellars in Idaho/etc.. The really lower-class upper-class (top 1%) just dig a hole under their multi-million mansion in Malibu and stock it with plenty of liquor/drugs/etc.)
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)My I Cant Even Meter just went over the limit.
snort
(2,334 posts)Trumpers?
Kali
(55,004 posts)Canoe52
(2,948 posts)Response to Mrs. Overall (Original post)
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Lulu KC
(2,561 posts)Things I wish I hadn't read. And yet, fascinating.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)Reading this, we can safely wager this warped thinking is ingrained in their corporate culture......
Makes me think of stuff we read about regarding the Mafia.
NonPC
(283 posts)Didn't read if eBay fired them or promoted them. Just saying....
barbtries
(28,770 posts)now that they're under criminal apprehension.
OnlinePoker
(5,719 posts)whopis01
(3,491 posts)It must have been pretty accurate to inspire that kind of attack.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)"Executives" have SO MUCH WORK YOU PEONS COULD NEVER COMPREHEND!!!!
FM123
(10,053 posts)Did he not know that what he and his co-horts were doing was a federal crime....
MarcA
(2,195 posts)your actions it's a feature not a glitch. Notice one of the others had been in charge
of safety and security. What better position could there be for an authoritarian.
cate94
(2,810 posts)Sounds like maggots from MAGAts. What horrible people.