I get an email today and it seems I’m selling 6 apple computers on Ebay. Someone Hijacked my account and now I’m in the computer business. People are bidding like crazy oblivious to the problem. Wow it’s scary what someone can do, wonder if I’ll get charged all the fees, I have notified Ebay and we will see how they take care of it.
How much? If I buy all 6 will you cut me a deal? I’d like to do this transaction off EBAY if possible… you know… to avoid all the extra fees, etc.
I’ll take the G5 64-bit desktop
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Ebay has cancelled some and the bidders are sending me nasty emails for being an Ebay scammer.
but is the G5 still available?? 
It’s on sale for $500, just paypal me.
Yesterday I got what could only have been a phish email, looking like it was from eBay, asking me to click on a link and update my account information to avoid having my eBay account cancelled.
The fraudsters are getting more and more devious. I heard a story on NPR last week about a new kind of phish in which employees of large companies get an email that looks like its from their CEO or other company manager, asking them to email them back with certain personal information to update company records.
can I send you $1500 by western union? I have an associate in the US that owes me money and will pay you directly and you can keep the change
Have you seen this? http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/
The interesting question is, How did the person get your information so that they could hijack your account? Unless you have a password that’s easy to figure out, you probably gave them the information without even realizing it.
I was just going to respond in the same fashion. You may want to start investigating how this person was able to get a hold of your account info. Run some virus and some antispyware software on your system. Find a system you KNOW has not been compromised and change your passwords for everything.
I get emails from ‘ebay’ and ‘paypal’ all the time telling me i have to update my account info or be suspended.
if you click the link they send you, you will think you are loggin in to ebay
what you are really doing is giving them your passwd.
happened to me . I was shocked at how realistic the email that came from them was. ebay will help you straighten it out.
just be glad it’s not your paypal passwd they got.
They get around it somehow. They attached my info with less than 24hrs to go in the auction, so they have been bouncing new accounts for a week. This was happening with Bianchi’s all last fall. There would be 5 auctions starting at 1.00 and I’d complain. When a seller has only sold womens clothes and is now a Bianchi dealer, something is wrong. Every day they’d still be there with a new seller ID. I have 219 bicycle related auctions and if all of a sudden I’m into womens underware, then wait, I just might be into womens underware–pending permission of course.
Hmm, sounds strange. Don’t think you can assign a new seller account to an auction that’s in progress (my wife works for Ebay - I’ll ask).
In any event, in order to hijack your account someone must have your user/pass. There’s no other way to do it.
ebay is dying a slow death from lack of proper controls on fraud. I bid on a bike, lost…and then recieved six notices of second chance bidding on the SAME bike (Not an another bike). After notifying ebay they emailed me back it was a fraud…regiritation of the obvious!!!
Well they just suspended all my activity so all will be well. I was not happy with the Bianchi deal as for 3 months those auctions came and went by the week or day and the user ID’s would change just as fast. I can understand they are managing millions and they are not so keen to detect fraud.
I don’t think ebay is dying any death - have you seen their quarterly earnings for the past 10 years? Now, unintelligent people who get duped into fraudulent acutions - their bank accounts are probably dying a slow death - but as with any open market, it’s buyer beware.
Just remember once you have set up an account with ebay or paypal and confirmed it the one initial time they will never ask you to confirm again or click on any link. I got one of those emails and called to check and that is what they told me.
that is friggin’ hilarious–thanks for the link!!