jordinaildesign
Well-Known Member
If any other geeks use ebay please be careful of any unusual e-mails... let me tell you about my recent experience with my boyfriends account.
He recently received an e-mail from the standard ebay automated e-mail address saying that his account had been suspended due to seller inactivity. We thought this was a bit strange as we didn't remember reading that we had to have a certain amount of activity, but to investigate further required login user name and password. Once I had "logged in" it wouldn't let me click on the "more info" link. I thought it was a bit silly, but probably just standard computer behaviour :evil: .
Anyway, a few days later I got an e-mail from ebay saying that our account had been suspended because somebody had listed an item on our account, obviously without our authorisation! (don't ask me how they knew it wasn't us!)
It would seem that the first e-mail was sent by a fraudster (who has perfectly copied ebays format) who got our login name and password from it and logged in as us, changed our password and listed an item (premium listing, fee about £20) which if ebay weren't on the ball would've been charged to my credit card :Scared:
So just a little warning to be extra vigilant!!!!!!
He recently received an e-mail from the standard ebay automated e-mail address saying that his account had been suspended due to seller inactivity. We thought this was a bit strange as we didn't remember reading that we had to have a certain amount of activity, but to investigate further required login user name and password. Once I had "logged in" it wouldn't let me click on the "more info" link. I thought it was a bit silly, but probably just standard computer behaviour :evil: .
Anyway, a few days later I got an e-mail from ebay saying that our account had been suspended because somebody had listed an item on our account, obviously without our authorisation! (don't ask me how they knew it wasn't us!)
It would seem that the first e-mail was sent by a fraudster (who has perfectly copied ebays format) who got our login name and password from it and logged in as us, changed our password and listed an item (premium listing, fee about £20) which if ebay weren't on the ball would've been charged to my credit card :Scared:
So just a little warning to be extra vigilant!!!!!!