Banksy caught up in eBay fraud
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Arts & entertainment: The mysterious graffiti artist, who has gone from underground street phenomenon to darling of collectors, is embroiled in an online scandal.
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There's treasure on that there online car boot sale British Museum experts will monitor eBay antiquities sales and report illegal activity to the Met's Art and Antiques Unit in an arrangement announced today.â¦
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An exhibition featuring artist Banksy has been cancelled amid fears that works could be stolen.
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A Norman Rockwell painting found behind a fake wall sells for a record $15.4m (Â£7.9m) at auction.
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An Italian antiquities trafficker running a thriving business out of Switzerland duped some of the world's most famous auction houses and museums with illegally acquired artifacts, authorities said on Friday.
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In what appears to be the largest trading fraud ever carried out by a single person, a young trader at French bank Societe Generale is accused of making unauthorized bets on stock markets that cost the bank nearly $7.2 billion but may not have netted him a cent.
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A New Jersey painter was arrested Thursday on charges he pulled off what prosecutors say is the biggest fraud yet from a Sept. 11 compensation fund &#151; more than $1 million.
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Identity thieves armed with a brute-force botnet are uncovering valid eBay account data, a security firm says.
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Collection sold at Christie's sparks bidding in person, by phone and via internet.
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EBay's PayPal division recently snapped up Israeli security company Fraud Sciences, in a move that could help advance eBay in its long battle against online scammers.
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eBay battles several days' worth of PayPal glitches.
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A "massive fraud" by a junior rogue trader has punched a $7 billion hole in the finances of French bank Societe Generale, leaving its credibility in tatters and forcing it to get emergency cash.
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A couple who sold art through televised auctions admitted selling bogus works and forging signatures of artists including Picasso, Chagall and Dali in a scam that bilked buyers out of millions of dollars, prosecutors said.
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A series of paintings, by controversial artist Jack Vettriano, are sold at auction for more than Â£1m.
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Auction house Bonhams on Tuesday organised the first sale dedicated solely to "street art", with works by American artist Keith Haring, and Banksy, who anonymously paints on London's walls, on sale.
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By Hannah Baker  INTERNET shoppers were today warned to beware web auction sellers in the West Midlands making a killing on selling fake goods.   Trading Standards officers in the area have discovered counterfeit clothing, handbags and DVDs sold in large quantities on the ebay site.
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Persistence pays off A week or more after it was brought to its attention, eBay has plugged a hole in its sign-on page that was being exploited by phishers.â¦