"As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself—not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch."
—After visiting with wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 1, 2006
posted on March 19, 2006 06:43:21 PM
"Chung bid on the watch, won the auction, and wired $10,600 to her bank in New York. ". Sorry for this person but they did it to them selves. Prime example of why a buyer should NOT wire money.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
posted on March 19, 2006 08:59:57 PM
eBay could stop account hijacking in a minute if they bothered about it. All they have to do is lock account details like what is currently done with domain names. (Domain names used to be routinely hijacked by faxing in a forged transfer sex.com is probably the most well known example.)
Your eBay account (including billing) details are locked until you provide parts of your secret security code i.e. last digit of code, third digit of code, first digit of code, followed by random parts of the passphrase. Works with online banking where they never ask the same questions twice so as to defeat phishers and keyloggers. But of course eBay will probably wait until they are force to (as always).
posted on March 19, 2006 11:06:32 PM
You know, that's a good idea. Here's another and even easier for ebay to implement. Ebay just locks account information. If you want to change anything in your account information you click on a "Request to change account info" link and they send you a email to the email address that is currently on file with them. In that email would be a code. You log into your ebay account and input the code they emailed you and now you can change your info. It would be rather hard for a phisher to get both your ebay user ID/password AND your email address and log in password. I'm sure it would not stop all hijacked accounts but I bet it would put one hell of a dent in the problem. But then again, why would ebay do anything that makes sense. God, just imagine, ebay looking out for my security. LOL
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
posted on March 20, 2006 08:45:45 AM
Ebay does send you an email if you change anything on your account. I had my account hijacked once. But the scammer didn't waste anytime listing high ticket items with a BIN.
We were able to stop it without any real damage. I guess Mike's suggestion would have stopped it even quicker.
Ebay really did protect me one time. I was listing a $800 items which required over $300 in shipping cost. I had a "buyer" email and ask if they could buy it for a client, pay for the item & the shipping. The client would arrange the shipping and I would pay shipper out of my cashier's check funds.
Ebay wrote me not to deal with this person and next think I knew he was NARU. I don't think I would have fallen for it but ebay saved the trouble of having to deal with it
posted on March 20, 2006 08:57:21 AM
I hope that some powerseller that matters IE: big $$$ seller takes this concern to ebay live.Meg and ebay incharge's need to openly talk about these concerns with "their community"!! They really do need to get a handle on hijacked accounts amongst other security concerns. My account was hikacked about a month ago. I was working on photography and turned around when I heard you have mail. The mail was a note from some person saying unless your nuts or really rich I think your account has been hijacked. "I" had just listed 8 high$ autos with BIN at nuts money. It took me HOURS to get it straightened out. I am grateful to that mystery person... and by the way ebay was mildly helpful on the phone and did shut down those sales immediatly.. however in the aftermath... it was the help and information of people in this room that helped the most. As I said I hope they talk... really talk.. and address this issue at LIVE... who cares Huey Lewis give me buyers and security!
[ edited by bjboswell on Mar 20, 2006 10:17 AM ]
"As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself—not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch."
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein