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New eBay Crap: Help Keep Your eBay Account Secure
jessewvu
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I wonder if they are gearing this toward sellers that bid on their own items from the same computer with different accounts. I sure hope so!
Dear Jesse,
We would like to tell you about a new security initiative. To help protect the Community against fraudulent access to our members’ accounts, eBay has started noting which computers members typically use to conduct their buying and selling activity.
Sometime this summer, eBay will begin checking to ensure you are logging in from the same machine you have successfully used previously, whether it is a home or business computer. If you attempt to list an item from a different computer – for example, from a PC you are borrowing in a hotel or library – eBay will ask you to confirm your identity.
The best way to confirm your identity is to choose an automated phone call – either now, or in 2 minutes -- that eBay will make to the number you have registered with us. The phone call will provide you with a PIN number to use to complete the confirmation process. This allows the system to confirm it is really you logging in to list items.
If this is not possible, we will provide alternatives such as confirming through Live Chat or receiving a call to a new number. These alternate methods will require you to provide more information (such as your secret question answer).
Most sellers will need to confirm their identity infrequently. By making sure you have a current phone number and a secret question and answer on file with eBay, you can help ensure this authentication process goes quickly and smoothly.
Have a cell phone? Registering it could save you time
If you carry a mobile phone, we encourage you to add this number as a secondary phone number in your registration details, so that we can reach you when you are away from your business or residence where you normally use your trusted computer. Your secondary number will not be shared with other members and will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Please take a minute to update your contact information.
Dear Jesse,
We would like to tell you about a new security initiative. To help protect the Community against fraudulent access to our members’ accounts, eBay has started noting which computers members typically use to conduct their buying and selling activity.
Sometime this summer, eBay will begin checking to ensure you are logging in from the same machine you have successfully used previously, whether it is a home or business computer. If you attempt to list an item from a different computer – for example, from a PC you are borrowing in a hotel or library – eBay will ask you to confirm your identity.
The best way to confirm your identity is to choose an automated phone call – either now, or in 2 minutes -- that eBay will make to the number you have registered with us. The phone call will provide you with a PIN number to use to complete the confirmation process. This allows the system to confirm it is really you logging in to list items.
If this is not possible, we will provide alternatives such as confirming through Live Chat or receiving a call to a new number. These alternate methods will require you to provide more information (such as your secret question answer).
Most sellers will need to confirm their identity infrequently. By making sure you have a current phone number and a secret question and answer on file with eBay, you can help ensure this authentication process goes quickly and smoothly.
Have a cell phone? Registering it could save you time
If you carry a mobile phone, we encourage you to add this number as a secondary phone number in your registration details, so that we can reach you when you are away from your business or residence where you normally use your trusted computer. Your secondary number will not be shared with other members and will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Please take a minute to update your contact information.
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<< <i>I wonder if they are gearing this toward sellers that bid on their own items from the same computer with different accounts. >>
No, it's about different computers with the same account. My online banking accounts already do similar. They require any computer I use to be registered.
Russ, NCNE
I got that too and figured they must have some type A idiot in the thinking room that comes up with a lot of those "seemed like a good idea" ideas to fix their problems.
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<< <i>This is just a subtle way of telling all sellers that ebay is tracking computer addresses. Each computer has its own "signature" address. If they track computer A at work used by Seller, then computer B at home used by Seller, and Seller starts using computer B under a different name to shill his sales, they will be able to spot him. Gotta read between the lines. >>
Anyone who seriously wanted to shill could circumvent that with minimal effort. COmputers are cheap and nearly everyone even has a throwaway one around somewhere anyway. Just use one of those (different SID then) and set a gateway to one of thousands of web proxies out there and you are entirely untraceable as to your real location and system. For me, if it would come down to that, I'd be out of the hobby in a heartbeat. It has to be BOTH fun and not a major money bloodletting on average.
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A "thinking room" at Ebay? C'mon!
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<< <i>I wonder if they are gearing this toward sellers that bid on their own items from the same computer with different accounts. >>
No, it's about different computers with the same account. My online banking accounts already do similar. They require any computer I use to be registered.
Russ, NCNE >>
Same thing for me. I have had to do this to log into a bank account from work. They have always been able to track this information, so I am not sure why anyone would be upset by this.
edited: maybe not. All the spoofers would have to do is add the pin check into the spoof websites.
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<< <i>I wonder if they are gearing this toward sellers that bid on their own items from the same computer with different accounts. >>
No, it's about different computers with the same account. My online banking accounts already do similar. They require any computer I use to be registered.
Russ, NCNE >>
Same thing for me. I have had to do this to log into a bank account from work. They have always been able to track this information, so I am not sure why anyone would be upset by this. >>
If I log into my bank account from work I am asked to answer the secret question; registering the infrequently used computer is optional however.
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<< <i>I wonder if they are gearing this toward sellers that bid on their own items from the same computer with different accounts. >>
No, it's about different computers with the same account. My online banking accounts already do similar. They require any computer I use to be registered.
Russ, NCNE >>
Nice, helpful as usual russ.
<< <i>Sounds like a good idea to me. Might make it more difficult for others to steal your login info.
edited: maybe not. All the spoofers would have to do is add the pin check into the spoof websites. >>
scarey, ain't it?
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