Taobao Fights Off Tricky Impersonators

Alibaba's consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce site Taobao.com has established a thirty-person safety team to handle customer complaints regarding fake Taobao sites and phony prize information sent via Taobao instant messaging tool Ali Wang Wang, reports National Business Daily quoting a Taobao executive. The team intends to block sites and report them to the government, said the report. Several Taobao users recently received fake prize notification SMS from Taobao impostor taobao.gegecn.com.cn asking the users to send in RMB1,000 to redeem prizes they had "won".