On 2007-10-09, Up North wrote:
"Ignoramus3694" wrote in message
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On 2007-10-09, Up North wrote:
"Ignoramus3694" wrote in message
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eBay recently implemented some changes aimed to thwart Romanian second
chance offer scammers. (The last scammer that I conversed with 6
months ago, was from Belotesti in Ilfov county, Romania, hence my
reference to that country)
After the eBay changes, they assumed a new mode of operation. They do
the following:
1) Grab whatever bidder userids they can find from Bid History
pages. Let's say that they grab username 'joeblow'.
2) They then email fake second chance offers to ,
(and possibly to other places).
This happened to me with my userid at eBay. My gmail and yahoo
addresses were spammed by those scammers, even though my eBay
account's username is registered for different domains than those free
ones.
i
Just last week I had someone list a Honda motorcycle under my username. I
check my listings several times a day and happened to catch the fake
listing
within an hour after it happened. I contacted eBay through their live
chat
and got it cancelled in ten minutes or so. I changed my password again
for
the 4th or 5th time this year.
Steve
Do you know how they got a hold of your account info? (echoing another
poster's question) You probably need to do something drastic to your
computer.
i
They must have hacked my password which I thought was safe as it was 8
digits both numbers and letters. I asked Ebay about it and they said it most
likely was by a spoof email although I never reply to messages not related
to items I am selling or buying, I should start going to my ebay account to
respond to those too. I have Trend Micro antivirus on all my computers and I
keep it updated daily.
You could have some malware program that captures your eBay password
as you type it. Even bigger danger than eBay, is the scammers clearing
out your bank account.
i