Not only charged with fraud Cindy but prosecuted and in some of the cases convicted.

All the records of ebay are private. Authorities can get a court order to obtain those records. Like any other safeguard sufficient evidence must be produced. Ebay has no choice but to comply if presented with such an order. One certainly sees enough in the news about child pornographers being "tracked down". The ISPs provided the records after receiving a court order to do so.

Tom