Gary, that article was written 5 years ago and fraud is STILL rampant. It's never going to change since the chances of actually getting caught is slim. Dealers and (for the most part) auction houses take no responsibility for the accuracy of what they sell and we all know ebay is a joke. Crime in this country is so out of control that the authorities have no time to investigate fraudulent cars.
As an example, a few years ago there was a seller that had a fairly nice numbers matching 1968 LF7 (327/210) Coupe on ebay. It sold and a few months later surfaced again on ebay this time as a numbers matching SS 350! I contacted the seller and found out through a lot of detective work that he purchased the car using one ebay identity and sold it under a different one. At that time I was a ebay power user (whatever the heck that was), and had a phone number I could call and speak to an actual human being!! We discovered that particular ebay user had 3 different accounts. Not against ebay policy by the way, so there wasn't anything I could do.
However, armed with the original ebay auction information (pictures and description) and the fake SS 350 auction information (pictures and description), I contacted his local police and they told me that they didn't have the time or the manpower to investigate fake cars. That's when I realized that no one seems to care anymore.
Ed
