Web rage attack prompts warning to TradeMe users

From: Sunday Star-Times | Date: June 8, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

* Buyer attacks victim in home after negative feedback on a trade * Internet safety watchdog warns against sharing personal information TRADEME USERS are being warned not to give out their addresses after a buyer drove nearly 40km to assault and threaten a man at his home after a trade went sour.

The victim had sold his attacker a computer hard-drive, and posted negative feedback about the buyer on TradeMe when they became embroiled in a dispute about damage to the hard-drive.

The negative feedback so enraged the buyer, he drove across Auckland to his victim's house, assaulted him and ...

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