OT- eBay Account Hacked
Gonblott
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I wake up this morning and try to log into eBay and it won't let me. Then I check my email and find that my account got hacked and eBay closed the account. I have to call in and restore my account through eBay. Some loser made some listings on my account and eBay spotted the activity and closed it.
Should I check anything else to make sure I am ok? I just checked paypal and its fine.
Last time, someone hacked into my account and listed a $1,000,000 boat.
Should I check anything else to make sure I am ok? I just checked paypal and its fine.
Last time, someone hacked into my account and listed a $1,000,000 boat.
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the account-holder makes a mistake and clicks on a
link that lands him on a fake sign-in page.
I suspect that there might be other ways it can happen.
Any good programs that block hackers?
General rule of thumb is if it if really from Ebay it will be in both your Ebay messages and your mail.
If Ebay ever sends you an email and there are links in it DO NOT CLICK THEM. Go to your Ebay account and check it out there. If it is important you will have an alert when you log in.
Lee
When I saw the boat listing and the huge price tag, my hands shook. It also had 2 bids! In my email, people were sending me questions about the boat too!
"What year is this model?"
"I'll give you $1,025,000 to end it now"
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We have reason to believe that your account was accessed by a third party. We have limited access to sensitive PayPal account features in case your account has been accessed by an unauthorized third party. We understand that having limited access can be an inconvenience, but protecting your account is our primary concern." I got this email the other day and thought it was fake and ignored it. A few days later I went to pay for a ebay buy and yep my account was frozen. After I did the 3 steps Paypal told me to do plus a call to the 1-800 now all is fine. I recently had to file a claim on a buy from overseas and maybe the guy was mad and tried to pay me back?
<< <i>I wake up this morning and try to log into eBay and it won't let me. Then I check my email and find that my account got hacked and eBay closed the account. I have to call in and restore my account through eBay. Some loser made some listings on my account and eBay spotted the activity and closed it.
Should I check anything else to make sure I am ok? I just checked paypal and its fine.
Last time, someone hacked into my account and listed a $1,000,000 boat. >>
Interesting that your ebay auctions in your sigline link are still up. I guess all that didn't affect anything there.
Lately, I've been getting alot of Phish email from hackers posing as PayPal. Where the hell do these guys come from? College geek drop-outs? Foreign terrorrists with PhDs in e-commerce embezzlemnt?
Anyway, I forwarded the email to PayPal and they confirmed the phish.
<< <i>*** Beware of bogus PayPal Spam too ***
Lately, I've been getting alot of Phish email from hackers posing as PayPal. Where the hell do these guys come from? College geek drop-outs? Foreign terrorrists with PhDs in e-commerce embezzlemnt?
Anyway, I forwarded the email to PayPal and they confirmed the phish. >>
Organized crime gangs in Nigeria are infamous for this. And in some former Soviet Union countries as well. some Communist China organized crime gangs have been getting in on the action as well.
That's interesting. It seems like the media would have more coverage of this. Maybe I watch too much ESPN and poker on TV because I've never seen anything about these crimes. Currently, this is one of my biggest fears, having my accounts, finances and personal information stolen by these a--holes.
This is a cool topic, I'd like to hear if anyone has experience in this area. The more information, the better prepared I feel.
Thank you,
Danny
<< <i>Steve,
That's interesting. It seems like the media would have more coverage of this. Maybe I watch too much ESPN and poker on TV because I've never seen anything about these crimes. Currently, this is one of my biggest fears, having my accounts, finances and personal information stolen by these a--holes.
This is a cool topic, I'd like to hear if anyone has experience in this area. The more information, the better prepared I feel.
Thank you,
Danny >>
Dateline did a few stories on this. The sad thing is that scamming Americans comprises about a quarter of Nigeria's GDP. One woman they had in the piece was scammed by one of those General Habeeb Haboob emails, where the wife of a dead general wants to transfer cash to her account and split it with her, etc. Well, this woman lost 10K and afterwards, she was scammed again by the exact same email! She was tv-worthy because she was a two-timer.
<< <i>She was tv-worthy because she was a two-timer. >>
Man, what was she thinking?
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spoof@ebay.com and spoof@paypal.com
Each will get back to you very quickly about if the email is fake or not.
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<< <i>Steve,
That's interesting. It seems like the media would have more coverage of this. Maybe I watch too much ESPN and poker on TV because I've never seen anything about these crimes. Currently, this is one of my biggest fears, having my accounts, finances and personal information stolen by these a--holes.
This is a cool topic, I'd like to hear if anyone has experience in this area. The more information, the better prepared I feel.
Thank you,
Danny >>
Dateline did a few stories on this. The sad thing is that scamming Americans comprises about a quarter of Nigeria's GDP. One woman they had in the piece was scammed by one of those General Habeeb Haboob emails, where the wife of a dead general wants to transfer cash to her account and split it with her, etc. Well, this woman lost 10K and afterwards, she was scammed again by the exact same email! She was tv-worthy because she was a two-timer. >>
The problem is these particular governments don't/won't cooperate with international law enforcement for a number of reasons, most reasons involve of course bribes and payoffs to those in power.
Nigerian government officials have recently stated publicly that they would begin cooperating with international law enforcement, but it's obvious it is only lip service. So basically there is no legal recourse if you are scammed. The only solution to the scamming is prevention.
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<< <i>I wake up this morning and try to log into eBay and it won't let me. Then I check my email and find that my account got hacked and eBay closed the account. I have to call in and restore my account through eBay. Some loser made some listings on my account and eBay spotted the activity and closed it.
Should I check anything else to make sure I am ok? I just checked paypal and its fine.
Last time, someone hacked into my account and listed a $1,000,000 boat. >>
Interesting that your ebay auctions in your sigline link are still up. I guess all that didn't affect anything there. >>
eBay took out all the bad listings and didn't close the ones I already had running.
EDIT: Oh, and firewalls won't stop you from getting those emails...
<< <i>' 'I don't know whats fake and whats legit because its looks REAL!''
Teach yourself quickly, figure it out, or you have no business being on the Internet! >>
Agree.
If you can't tell, then delete any/all emails from ebay.
Who said most people get 100 of these a day? Ummmm OK.
If you have any other accounts such a paypal with the same password, you best be changing that one too.
spoof@ebay.com
they can be e-mailed and validate if e-mail is scumware or not?
i didn't scroll up, so if this has been mentioned already, suck it!
julen
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<< <i>They way I spot fake e-mails is to look at the link in the e-mail. It might read one thing in the e-mail but when you highlight it or click on it the address bar points you to another address like an IP number (example 198.172.1.1). This is a bogus site set up to steal ID's and passwords. The site is GOING TO LOOK just like the real thing but it is not! The IP address gives it away every time because they are not the real https://www.ebay.com or https://www.paypal.com. Just my 2 cents from an IT guy! >>
You're right about that. Always is interesting how they can still have ebay.com in the header which up until me starting to get these e-mails, I thought that was impossible. I always thought the full e-mail had to show up in the header for the e-mail - that's the way it should be anyway.
Note also that just OPENING these e-mails means you'll get more of them. When you open one up...I don't know how it's done but I do know it will activate the HTML code and they'll be able to know you opened it up. Knowing that some "sucker" is likely to open up an e-mail makes it more of a "cream" e-mail list for them and again...you'll get more e-mails from even more scammers, because they sell the lists among themselves. DON"T EVEN OPEN UP THESE E-MAILS - JUST DELETE THEM.
Frankly - ebay is just basically providing lip service to make their members feel good that ebay is "doing something" about it - for reasons I already stated, ebay can't do anything about it, basically.
I'm not saying don't report it to ebay if that's what you want to do...but don't open it - just somehow copy and paste the header and send it to ebay.
It still costs money to send out millions of e-mails. By not opening them up, the scammers will have disincentive or no incentive to keep doing it.
<< <i>Note also that just OPENING these e-mails means you'll get more of them. When you open one up...I don't know how it's done but I do know it will activate the HTML code and they'll be able to know you opened it up. Knowing that some "sucker" is likely to open up an e-mail makes it more of a "cream" e-mail list for them and again...[/q/
There is no way for anyone to know that you got an email JUST because you opened the email. Well, let me correct myself by saying that there are ways, but most email programs and webmail have those features "OFF" by default. A user would have to activate those setting and would be pretty stupid to do so. HTML does not "activate" when you open an email. HTML is simply a way of displaying text on a screen. There are scripts and programs that can be attached to emails but require the user to open those attachments to make anything happen. If you know otherwise, I'd like to know how this is done.
[qIt still costs money to send out millions of e-mails. By not opening them up, the scammers will have disincentive or no incentive to keep doing it. >>
It doesn't cost much at all to send out millions of emails. Most of the people that have been arrested for Spamming have either been solo operators or small groups. The entire process can be easily automated.
It's gotten so bad that one time a perceived spoof ended up being the real deal.
Never, never, ever, never click any links in a PayPal or eBay email. Immediately and ALWAYS forward the suspect email to spoof@paypal.com/ebay.com, log into your account, and see if there's a notice regarding your account.
Don't feel as if you are burdening their spoof department because you help pay for it. Take advantage of their services because it's better than getting screwed and being out some potential cash.