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Victim of eBay fraud!

I came home tonight to change my clothes before going out again, and thought I'd check my email... only to find I had about 20 emails with quesitons about handbags...

Turns out that some slimeball has hacked my eBay account, linked it up to their own PayPal account, and started a bunch of 24-hour auctions... 4 of which had already ended.

Frantically, I emailed the potential buyers advising them not to pay for the item if they win the auction because it is a fraudulent listing, emailed all the people asking questions advising them of the same, and attempted to end all the said auctions (25+).

Every time I would end an auction, another one would seemingly automatically start again. What do I do about this? I have sent a few emails to eBay explaining what is going on, but who knows when they'll get around to responding. I don't want people getting ripped off under my name, even though it is obvious that the PayPal account linked to my auctions isn't even mine!

What can I do about this? My name is getting dragged through the mud... before this is over, I might have to resort to suing eBay or something.

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Old 10-28-2006, 10:33 PM
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Ugh besides this, I am getting charged for all these listings! Obviously, I am not going to pay for the listings... I am really stressing out over this...
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I changed my password. And the phone number is only open 7AM-5PM weekdays (probably why this jerk is pulling this now)
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Old 10-28-2006, 10:56 PM
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I could tell you what to do on monday...
I just started with a local company who does 2 things, one is my problem, the other is EBay tech support.... strange luck. If you don't get this sorted out by then I can ask around for you.
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I would appreciate this.

I figured out something I can do to help; I added this to each item description: "DO NOT BID ON THIS! THIS IS A FRAUDULENT LISTING! SOMEONE HYJACKED MY ACCOUNT AND IS TRYING TO SCAM YOU!

DO NOT BID!!!!"

This should help.
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Sure its not a mixup by ebay? Why would someone go through all that trouble to make you money?
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Go to the help center on Ebay and then type in "account taken over" and follow the links. They have a live help on the internet and they will walk you through it. I have had this happen twice in the last two months.

Very likely you have a program on your computer that is sending out your passwords. Run a scan then change every password on everything using a different computer, then make sure that your home computer is clean.
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Quote:
Originally posted by austin552
Sure its not a mixup by ebay? Why would someone go through all that trouble to make you money?
No, they have linked a different PayPal account to my eBay user name.

I am very impressed with how quickly eBay has responded and fixed this problem. It appears that I won't have to pay a dime in listing fees, and, as far as I can tell, the couple of bidders who paid for their auctions before I caught on are getting refunded by PayPal.

Joeaksa, would said program be a virus or spywear?
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Old 10-29-2006, 06:58 AM
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Did you recently answer an email purporting to be from eBay asking you to confirm your account? There's no real way someone can hack into your eBay account - they usually hijack accounts via a phishing email.
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Nope. I know better than that.

I think the SpyWare guess is probably the right one. All the more reason to get myself a Mac.

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