Two former eBay Inc. workers have pleaded responsible to their roles in a marketing campaign to terrorize a writer and editor of an internet e-newsletter important of the corporate with a scheme that included dwell spiders and different disturbing deliveries despatched to their dwelling
BOSTON — Two former eBay Inc. workers pleaded responsible Thursday to their roles in a marketing campaign to terrorize a writer and editor of an internet e-newsletter important of the corporate with a scheme that included dwell spiders and different disturbing deliveries despatched to their dwelling.
Stephanie Popp, former senior supervisor of world intelligence; and Veronica Zea, a former eBay contractor who labored as an intelligence analyst in eBay’s International Intelligence Middle, pleaded responsible to conspiracy to commit cyberstalking and conspiracy to tamper with witnesses. They’re scheduled to be sentenced in February.
They’re amongst seven former eBay workers charged within the scheme that concerned different nameless deliveries despatched to the couple’s dwelling, together with a funeral wreath and a bloody pig Halloween masks. Three others are anticipated to plead responsible later this month
The staff additionally despatched pornographic magazines with the husband’s title on them to their neighbor’s home, deliberate to interrupt into the couple’s storage to put in a GPS system on their automobile, and posted the couple’s names and tackle on-line, promoting issues like yard gross sales and inspiring strangers to knock on the door if the pair wasn’t exterior, officers stated.
The couple was focused after their e-newsletter printed an article a couple of lawsuit filed by eBay accusing Amazon of poaching its sellers, investigators stated.
An e mail in search of remark have been despatched Friday to an legal professional for Zea. An legal professional for Popp declined to remark.
