Former eBay Employees Accused of Roach Attack

Six previous eBay personnel have been accused of sending a box of reside cockroaches and a pig fetus to a Massachusetts pair as component of a marketing campaign to harass them for publishing a publication critical of the on-line auction web site.

James Baugh, eBay’s previous senior director of security & safety, and David Harville, previous director of global resiliency, were being equally arrested Monday on federal prices of conspiracy to dedicate cyberstalking and conspiracy to tamper with witnesses.

According to law enforcement, Baugh, Harville and the 4 other defendants — Stephanie Popp, Stephanie Stockwell, Veronica Zea, and Brian Gilbert — qualified the publishers in August 2019 just after two users of eBay’s government management workforce proposed it was time to “take down” the newsletter’s editor.

“The end result … was a systematic marketing campaign, fueled by the methods of a Fortune 500 business, to emotionally and psychologically terrorize this center-aged pair in Natick with the goal of deterring them from writing poor items on-line about eBay,” Andrew E. Lelling, the U.S. legal professional for Massachusetts, instructed reporters.

Amongst other items, numerous of the defendants allegedly requested “anonymous and disturbing deliveries” to the victims’ house in Natick, Mass., which include a preserved fetal pig, a bloody pig Halloween mask, a funeral wreath, and a e-book on surviving the reduction of a partner.

A handful of days just after the mask arrived at the victims’ house, they allegedly “received a box of cockroaches” that was purchased from a roach breeder and vendor.

The couple’s publication covers e-commerce firms. “Members of the government management workforce at eBay followed the newsletter’s posts, generally taking issue with its articles and the nameless comments underneath the editor’s stories,” the Section of Justice mentioned.

The newsletter’s editor “is [a] biased troll who needs to get BURNED DOWN,” just one eBay government allegedly wrote one more in a text concept.

The authorities also mentioned the harassment associated covertly surveilling the victims in their house and community, with Harville and Baugh intending at just one position to break into their garage and install a GPS monitoring unit on their automobile.

The pair spotted the surveillance and notified Natick law enforcement, who started an investigation.

cyberstalking, eBay, Harassment