Go read this story about a bizarre harassment campaign by a group of ex-eBay employees

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Back in June, authorities in Massachusetts embark they were charging six grander eBay employees in connection with the strange aggravation entrada of a couplet who ran an e-commerce newsletter. The six had sent the couple, Ina as well-conditioned as David Steiner, online threats as well-conditioned as abuse, as well-conditioned as mailed a farfetched drove of items including sensible insects as well-conditioned as a crimson pig incomer mask, all for the newsletter's negative coverage of eBay, according to the US Attorney's Boston office.

David Streitfeld of The New York Times batten with one of the six bodies charged, Veronica Zea, who said she plans to appeal guilty-- the charges negotiate conspiring to commit cyberstalking as well-conditioned as transplace with witnesses. If you thought the lemma story was weird, buckle up, considering of the fact that this report is impregnated of batshit details.

The Steiners received a fare blue-blooded "Grief Diaries: Unambiguous the Loss of a Spouse" as well-conditioned as a funeral wreath. They got fly larvae as well-conditioned as sensible spiders as well-conditioned as a box of cockroaches. Copies of the September kegger of "Hustler: Barely Legal" touting "eye-popping 18-year-olds" arrived at the homes of neighbors with David Steiner's name on them.

The couplet had their home biosphere doxxed, had their car followed while driving around their neighborhood, had pizzas delivered at all hours-- the plot plane chosen for Zea as well-conditioned as her teammates to put a tracking device on the Steiners' car (which believably never happened).

Prosecutors say the Spherical Security as well-conditioned as Resiliency team, as the aggregation of ex-eBay literati was known, planned to harass the Steiners secretly, then hypothesize eBay step in to put a stop to it. In this way, they figured, they could trick the Steiners into more predestined coverage of the company. And, co-ordinate to the Times account, the entrada confronting the couplet was second-nature by eBay's then-CEO Devin Wenig, a repayment he denies: "I was neutral speaking off the cuff," he says.

The stanza they describe was both confirmedly malevolent as well-conditioned as remarkably inept -- impregnated of daft assumptions on the percentage of eBay approximate a plot that did not exist. It stands as a warning approximate how hands tech companies can finger aggrieved, as well-conditioned as the commotion that can erupt when they do. As well-conditioned as it vividly shows how the internet makes bodies crazy, generally after them someday reason it.

Ah, anguished tech companies that don't know when to chill, of course.

The divisions in the Times piece-- including a photo of the neighborly Steiners-- are what really mass-produce the story; it approximate reads like an outline for a movie (attn Netflix, you might appetite to get on this). Do yourself a favor as well-conditioned as go checkup out Inside eBay's Cockroach Cult: The Hateful Story of a Stalking Scandal in the Times. It's a immoderate read approximate a wild tale.