posted on May 8, 2007 08:45:57 PM new
What do I do? The first time it was caught by Ebay apparently before I found out. All listing fees were credited back to my account. I log in tonight and was unable to use my password. Reset password, find about 60-70 listings obviously not mine (tractors, concession trailers, ski-doo, vespa ,etc). Live chat is off line. I'm so freaked out, I do have a about 100 listings running, need to do business. In eight years this is the first problem I have ever had...
posted on May 8, 2007 09:18:49 PM new
Thanks, I just got off live chat and all is well. It seems that the "second" round of listings were scheduled for later than the first round. Very clever, very annoying. Hopefully that is all for now....
posted on May 8, 2007 11:44:04 PM new
I'm sorry to hear that it happened to you--and like a bolt out of the blue! Thanks for warning us.
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posted on May 9, 2007 03:33:23 AM new
I had the same thing happen about a month ago on an account that I seldom use. Just happened to sign into the account to bid on something and saw 70 listings for boxed CD sets. The jerk had used every option available included home page featured and immediate PP required. Total bill- $240.00 in 15 minutes!
Amazingly enough, the listings had only been active for about an hour. I called live help and they responded very quickly.
Luckily I also thought to check who the PayPal payments were going to before eBay pulled the listings. I reported the email addy to PayPal. The PayPal person I talked to seemed shocked that I had thought to check and call them.
What is really scary about all this is I do not click on email links or surf what I believe to be questionable sites. I seriously wonder if eBay has been hacked.
On the other hand, I just read several articles about some of the ways scammers are not only stealing your personal data but using unsecured home computers as spam farms.
If you are lax on system and network security you may be sending out mail for a spammer in China and not even know it. Could explain a lot of the slow systems everyone is complaining about.
For a real eye-opener read some of these articles:
Sophos Just because Sophos addresses larger system, do not think that you are not a target. These guys are hacking more home users than you can imagine!
