A former government of eBay has pleaded responsible to participating in a disturbing cyber stalking marketing campaign waged in opposition to a married couple from Massachusetts.
The couple’s terrifying expertise started after they wrote about eBay in a web-based publication geared toward eBay sellers, which they edited and revealed.
Below the marketing campaign, parcels with horrifying contents have been anonymously despatched to the couple’s residence in Natick over a interval of weeks in 2019. The packages contained stay spiders and cockroaches, a fetal pig, a bloodied pig masks, a wreath of funeral flowers, and a ebook on learn how to survive the demise of a partner.
The marketing campaign included touring to Natick to surveil the victims and set up a GPS monitoring machine on their automotive. The couple was additionally despatched threatening personal Twitter messages and focused with Craigslist posts inviting the general public for sexual encounters on the victims’ residence.
James Baugh, of San Jose, California, was one in every of seven senior eBay workers charged over the cyberstalking marketing campaign. The 47-year-old, who was employed as eBay’s senior director of security and safety when the marketing campaign was put in movement, was arrested together with David Harville, eBay’s former Director of International Resiliency, in June 2020.
On Monday, Baugh pleaded responsible to 1 rely of conspiracy to commit stalking by way of interstate journey and thru amenities of interstate commerce, two counts of stalking by way of interstate journey, two counts of stalking by way of amenities of interstate commerce, two counts of witness tampering and two counts of destruction, alteration and falsification of data in a federal investigation.
Baugh’s co-conspirators and former eBay workers Philip Cooke, Brian Gilbert, Stephanie Popp, Veronica Zea and Stephanie Stockwell beforehand pleaded responsible to involvement within the cyber-stalking marketing campaign.
Courtroom paperwork stated the marketing campaign was launched after senior executives at eBay turned pissed off with what they seen because the crucial tone and content material of the publication written by the couple.
Cooke was sentenced in July 2021 to 18 months in jail. Gilbert, Popp, Zea and Stockwell are awaiting sentencing.
Harville, aged 50, is the one individual accused of taking part within the marketing campaign who has denied the costs. He pleaded not responsible and is awaiting trial.
