A couple months ago I looked at my ebay account, and noticed there was sent messages to sellers of designer clothes spamming them. I would get "You have a response to your question!" in the sent messages. I contacted ebay immediately and was told some guy hijacked my account and then used this to spam people..so they secured the account, I immediately changed my ebay password and my paypal password, email password too. 2 months pass...nothing. Now I just check my email again and I see this message: Subject: You've received an answer to your question about item $125 POLO BY RALPH LAUREN CLASSICS SWEATER NWT LARGE Received: Jul-27-09 From: imhistory2001 Expires: Aug-26-09 To: competitivecoins ItemId: 260302017160 Seller has responded to your question about this item Do not respond to the sender if this message requests that you complete the transaction outside of eBay. This type of offer is against eBay policy, may be fraudulent, and is not covered by buyer protection programs. Learn More. Dear competitivecoins, This is spam By the way, I did *not* spam anyone, last time I talked to them on ebay they said someone was using my ebay account to spam people into tricking them to buy things. I didn't save the exact message from a couple months ago but they had very poor english...This is the second time this happened! I am angry and frusterated, I don't know what to do...
What happens is someone will send you a Phish and dupe you into believing it came from Ebay or Pay-Me-More-Pal and when you click on the included link, it takes you to the login page of either and when you login, you provide the scammer with your password and then they have fun with your account. :whistle: The way to stop this from occurring is to always examine all messages from either Ebay or Pay-Me-More-Pal to ensure they came from either and always make sure the clickable link goes to them and not some obscure web address. Other than that, once you've been compromised, all you can do is to change all passwords and hope that fixes everything. :goofer: Ribbit
The (best) way to stop this from occurring... if you continue to use eBay and PayPal is to always log into a secure eBay page, and only respond to messages from within your eBay Message section of your account. I do not EVER reply directly out of my email, even though eBay Messages are sent to my email inbox. I advise ONLY dealing with messages when you know you have securely signed into eBay. You can report the problem message from within your eBay Messages as well. I have received these phishing scam messages and contacted eBay promptly. Also consider, even with reputable inquiries from serious buyers, hiding your email address when replying to a question in messages about an item. Just got to be on your toes ALL THE TIME, especially so when dealing with eBay and PayPal.
E-bay - paypal This happened to me a few years ago I was out $300.00 this why I use postal money order ant a pay pal account , as what was a topioc a while back.
The best thing to do with these is to forward them to spoof@ebay.com and spoof@paypal.com. They are simply fishing for your login and password. The quicker you send it to them the quicker they can shut them down and the less people that fall prey to this kind of scheme. I get 2 or 3 a month. It's wire fraud so the sites do get shut down.
Thanks, I forwarded the email message I got to spoof@ebay.com. Paypal isn't a problem right now...I have already takled to customer service last time and should I talk to them again? Or should sending that email to spoof@ebay.com be sufficient? Glad to hear I'm not the only one Thanks
Beat me to it Grey. This type of crap happens with my wifes account from time to time and I always send the e-mail to the "spoofy's". 99.99% they're fraudulant.......
Sometimes these fraudulent emails ask for account confirmation, asking for email, address, credit card , etc. PayPal would never email you about account information to change, unless one is doing it while secure on the paypal website. Also to keep in mind: When seeing if adding you information to somewhere is legitimate, in the web address box the "Http" should turn to "Https".
I use the 6 number key unit for ebay and paypal that changes numbers every 30 seconds, you type in the number at the end of your password to prevent someone using your account, even if they get your password for ebay and paypal it won,t work without the key unit numbers ..It cost me $5 and I,ve been using it for about 3 years, I,m not sure if I purchased it from the ebay site or the paypal site...There might be some drawbacks to the key and everyone needs to check what it does and if it,s right for them , but I like it..
Simple words used as passwords are the easiest to hack and hijack. My son plays on Steams game site. He had a long number for a password but changed it to a simple word. Took all of a few hours for someone to hijack his account. Letters and numbers mixed together is best and the longer the better...and don't open ""ebay"" emails
Honestly, I don't know how the heck they cracked it. When I changed the password, I made darn sure it was tight, using upper and lower case letters, using different keys, and numbers!
Four pieces of advice: 1) Scan your computer for viruses/spyware/etc. You may have something on your computer that steals your password when you type it. 2) Consider changing your browser to Firefox (much more secure than IE). 3) Change your password to something unintelligible (like "au75as*Vk"). 4) NEVER click a link in an e-mail to an eBay page (many are spoofs designed to steal your PW), and always open eBay through your browser directly.
I would bet there's a virus or trojan on your computer that records your keystrokes and sends them off to the perps every so often. They're called "keyloggers". A good anti-virus program should be able to spot them and rid your PC of any that may be installed. Other than that, if it really is a keylogger then every other type of account you access (such as forums like this) has also had the password compromised. Changing the passwords won't help unless you also remove the infestation because it will just capture the new password when you use it. Good luck and don't click on any links you aren't 100% sure about.
I too lost control of my account a few years ago. In my case my account was hacked. However, at the time my account had not been touched in several months, if not more than a year. They listed a ton (and I mean a TON - I cant recall the exact number, but it was upwards of 1K listings) of stuff, made some sales, though they didnt send payments to my paypal account (two VERY differnt login's and PW's). I actually found out about it because the volume of postings sent off a red flag at eBay. eBay was great about it, closing all auctions right there, removind all fee's and contacting all bidders/buyers.
