E bay nightmare for my 360 Ferrari
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for all the ebay haters that have chimed in, the OP's problem had nothing to do with ebay itself. his ISP account was hacked and either he used the same password for ebay or stealing email allowed the hacker to reset the ebay password. most likely this was a simple case of poor password selection.
a hacker that broke into his ISP account could just as easily change his autotrader ad as his ebay ads.
a hacker that broke into his ISP account could just as easily change his autotrader ad as his ebay ads.
point well taken and agreed. I have bought a car off of Ebay and of course, checked it out before handing over the dinero; and no problem.
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Never ever login to an account from an external link to a site. For example, if you get an email that looks like it is from ebay to leave feedback on a purchase, never trust the link in the email. It could very easily be a faked link used to grab your username and password. This is how the vast majority of accounts get "hacked".
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not car related, but i won an ebay auction for a watch last night and right afterwards got two very sophisticated spoof emails looking like they were from the seller of the item. it broke down from there as the emails were saying that the seller's paypal account was suspended and that i had to use western union for payment. now i'm not going to fall for that scam, but these emails used the seller's correct email address and they got to mine as well. i think it's easy getting the seller's but i'm not sure how they got mine unless they tacked common email domains (i use yahoo) onto my username and got lucky. the emails looked and sounded authentic.
what i did was to contact the seller directly via ebay to confirm these were fraudulent and then sent the emails to ebay who has blocked that ip address. i've also changed my ebay password.
oh, as far as passwords go, the advice from above is good. i use at least five different passwords for different things. for all financial stuff i have a unique password for each venue, then i have a couple that i use for nonsense like this board. hard to remember them all sometimes but i think it's a good practice to minimize the possibity of getting hacked. i should change them more often than i do, but at least they are all different.
what i did was to contact the seller directly via ebay to confirm these were fraudulent and then sent the emails to ebay who has blocked that ip address. i've also changed my ebay password.
oh, as far as passwords go, the advice from above is good. i use at least five different passwords for different things. for all financial stuff i have a unique password for each venue, then i have a couple that i use for nonsense like this board. hard to remember them all sometimes but i think it's a good practice to minimize the possibity of getting hacked. i should change them more often than i do, but at least they are all different.
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Just a word to the wise. It happens more then you may think.
I still sell items on E bay, but monitor the account more frequently. I also get e mails which are Phishing e mails. The e mails have the same format as E bay, but are bogus. I immediately forward them to e bay, but E bay will only send an e mail back confirming the suspicious e mail is fraudulent, something I already knew. E bay does not do enough to follow up when cases are documented to them.
I still sell items on E bay, but monitor the account more frequently. I also get e mails which are Phishing e mails. The e mails have the same format as E bay, but are bogus. I immediately forward them to e bay, but E bay will only send an e mail back confirming the suspicious e mail is fraudulent, something I already knew. E bay does not do enough to follow up when cases are documented to them.
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for all the ebay haters that have chimed in, the OP's problem had nothing to do with ebay itself. his ISP account was hacked and either he used the same password for ebay or stealing email allowed the hacker to reset the ebay password. most likely this was a simple case of poor password selection.
a hacker that broke into his ISP account could just as easily change his autotrader ad as his ebay ads.
a hacker that broke into his ISP account could just as easily change his autotrader ad as his ebay ads.
sorry to hear about the mess. that really sucks.
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I regularly sell on eBay and have never had anything like that happen to me.
Lesson learned... I'm off to change some passwords just to shake things up.
Glad you were able to settle everything without ruining your auctions or reputation.
Lesson learned... I'm off to change some passwords just to shake things up.
Glad you were able to settle everything without ruining your auctions or reputation.
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That's a shame. Glad you got everything resolved. I have been on ebay since it started and have not had trouble "knocks on wood". I don't really trust online, theirs too many people that always know how to get around security and scam.