Another Ebay scam for sellers
ARCO
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I received a message from within Ebay about an hour ago. It stated:
Look at this guy what is saying about you :
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/my2sonsandme
So I type the link in my computer and get a log in screen. I try to log in and nothing. Next thing I know when checking my Selling page, an 1892-O that was up to $600.00 in bids has had all of the bids cancelled. Canceled bids The auction ends in twenty minutes and some *sshole erased all the bids!
Has anyone seen this happen before? I know sure as hell that I didn't cancel the bids, and Ebay didn't. The rest of my auctions are running fine. Strange!
Tyler
Look at this guy what is saying about you :
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/my2sonsandme
So I type the link in my computer and get a log in screen. I try to log in and nothing. Next thing I know when checking my Selling page, an 1892-O that was up to $600.00 in bids has had all of the bids cancelled. Canceled bids The auction ends in twenty minutes and some *sshole erased all the bids!
Has anyone seen this happen before? I know sure as hell that I didn't cancel the bids, and Ebay didn't. The rest of my auctions are running fine. Strange!
Tyler
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Log in on a REAL log in page and change your password immediately. However, chances are whoever hijacked your account has already changed the password and you'll be locked out.
Contact eBay IMMEDIATELY!
Jonathan
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<< <i>I get the impression you don't even know what you did. You logged in on a FAKE log in screen. Now your account has been hijacked.
Log in on a REAL log in page and change your password immediately. However, chances are whoever hijacked your account has already changed the password and you'll be locked out.
Contact eBay IMMEDIATELY!
Jonathan >>
I agree with the double doggie!
"The Villain"
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<< <i>Thanks everyone. Password has been changed (caught it fast enough). The message came within Ebay. This was not a message sent to my E-mail. It came from this seller: Sigler_music. >>
Just another hijacked account.
Jonathan
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<< <i>I get the impression you don't even know what you did. You logged in on a FAKE log in screen. Now your account has been hijacked.
Log in on a REAL log in page and change your password immediately. However, chances are whoever hijacked your account has already changed the password and you'll be locked out.
Contact eBay IMMEDIATELY!
Jonathan >>
Totally agree. There's another thread about this seller.
I tried to log on and got the same window wanting me to fill in name and PW.
I don't have to do this on ebay with my auto-complete setting.
Got out of there as fast as I could.
JT
I collect all 20th century series except gold including those series that ended there.
Lesson: Always use your own links when logging in.
-RG
Tyler
I recommend doing a search of the bidding activity of all your bidders. See if one of the bidders seems to bid on a lot of auctions where a large amount of bids have been cancelled by the seller (i.e. a hijacked account). Sniping software will make this type of scam not nearly as profitable than if it had come out a year or two ago.
Will’sProoflikes
<< <i>Could it be some kind of virus that attaches itself to emails that the seller does not know about? >>
No, it's hijacked accounts. The lastest phishing scheme is to code the about me page like a login page and include script that points to a different server. That way you're actually at a legitimate URL so it's much more difficult to detect.
Russ, NCNE
I forwarded the phony offer to spoof@ebay.com but doubt that anything will happen other than the two stock replies I get every time I forward suspicious email there.
These messages have been happening for a while now. They're all through eBay but they make you type in the URL (copy it). The first time I got one I did like you, but my ebay toolbar turned red and there was a big warning that it wasn't an eBay site so I lucked out. The toolbar seems to work and gives me some comfort. The thing I've learned about eBay and Paypal is to move slowly to avoid mistakes!! I just had an auction close and I must have received 5 of those during the 5 days it ran. Many of them are from the UK.
Randy
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<< <i>Could it be some kind of virus that attaches itself to emails that the seller does not know about? >>
No, it's hijacked accounts. The lastest phishing scheme is to code the about me page like a login page and include script that points to a different server. That way you're actually at a legitimate URL so it's much more difficult to detect.
Russ, NCNE >>
So is this a reason to not visit any "About Me" pages?
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."