‘do I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION NOW!’
the Message, as a middle-aged american couple received in august last year, was certainly not to be mistaken. For when the pair, who runs a critical blog on the net, got the, had the for a longer time be the subject of serious harassment.
Among other things, they had received a mask that depicts a bloody griseansigt.
There were also ordered a dried svinefoster to the couple’s address, and sent a number of other items and the character subscriptions to newsletters, they had never asked.
Several of the neighbors of the pair received pornographic shipments like this with the couple’s name and address on. Politifoto
this week it came up, who was behind the cyber-bullying that would get the pair to keep up with writing critical on the web: eBay.
Or rather six now former employees of techfirmaet, which has just been indicted in the case. Several high-ranking security officials like a former head of communications and eBays also a former top executive Devin Wenig has been deeply involved in the harassment.
Internal messages and other documents in the case, according to the FBI, how the staff and management were tired of the couple’s blog, which brought criticisms of the posting on eBay. And now they had to stop. by anonymously would intimidate and harass them so much that they abandoned their blog.
the Book received the pair as a poorly disguised death threat. Politifoto
In the days after the threatening message continued packages and letters to arrive. Among other things, received the couple a book on how to survive the loss of a partner, which can’t be interpreted as anything other than a poorly disguised death threat.
Several neighbors also received pornographic material, where the couple’s name and the address stood as the right recipient.
Even more absurd was it when the record came with live larvae, spiders and cockroaches. There was simultaneously posted messages online that the couple kept open house for all. Or that they were looking for partners for a triangle.
Here is one of the telltale beskedtråde between the employees in eBay, which is planning how they can get the pair behind the blog crushed. Politifoto
At eBay we today matter deeply and tells the six people involved was immediately fired when the case became known in the autumn of last year.
even Though the now former ceo Devin Wenig is accused of, and admits eBay, also, that he has communicated ‘inappropriate’ about the harassment. According to The Verge, approved the he thus, the digital harassment of the pair with the message that they were down with the back of the neck’.
the Authorities have not published the couple’s identity, but the blog, the driver, according to documents in the case ecommercebytes.com.
below, You can read the entire document, as the FBI has made about the case:
the Statement from the FBI (PDF)
the Statement from the FBI (Text)
