deltiques
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posted on March 1, 2003 04:52:37 PM new
Got email from ebay yesterday stating that they had ended auctions on my site because they had been listed on my site by another party. Then they issued me a temporary ID so I could change my password to get my site back on track. Did as was instructed and everthing was fine for a few hours but when I turned my pc on this morning I had some more auctions listed on my site that were not mine and when I tried to get into my ebay I could not. Now this seller's email address is registered under my site (deltiques) and will not get emails from customers even if they try to email me. I think what has happed is ebay approved this seller's request to use the seller name deltiques which I have been using since 1999. Has anyone had this problem? I have written ebay about a half dozen emails and have yet to have this problem corrected.
Sorry for the long story but would appreciate any suggestions.
Thank You
deltiques
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kiara
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posted on March 1, 2003 05:00:40 PM new
Did you answer ebay through the link in the e-mail they sent you?
Perhaps your account has been hacked then. Are you presently selling the laptops in British pounds?
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kiara
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posted on March 1, 2003 05:11:49 PM new
I think you should read this page right away and report it to ebay.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/confidence/problems-account-theft.html
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trai
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posted on March 1, 2003 05:14:33 PM new
Sounds like you fell for a scam email. Try to contact ebay via custumer accounts and send them the full email with headers.
If you can, cancel all of your auctions, close the account and start a new one once you get this mess cleared up.
Someone else is using your account now and you will be billed for it.
If you have been using this name for that long[or only 5minutes] ebay does not hand this out to someone else.
Do let us know how this turns out.
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celebrity8x10s
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posted on March 1, 2003 05:17:49 PM new
Also I hope that you don't have the same password for your paypal account, as that too may have been hacked into.
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revvassago
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posted on March 1, 2003 05:35:05 PM new
Got email from ebay yesterday stating that they had ended auctions on my site because they had been listed on my site by another party. Then they issued me a temporary ID so I could change my password to get my site back on track.
eBay controls auctions on "your site"?!?!?!?
How does ebay control anything other than on eBay?
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deltiques
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posted on March 2, 2003 07:07:35 AM new
When I turned my pc on this morning I had reply from ebay stating they had ended the auctions I mentioned before and how to gain control of my site again but guess what?? Could not do it because ebay must have sent the same letter to this other person and he or she changed the passwords again and re-listed the items????? Can you believe this?? I am back where I started!! Still trying to get ebay to correct this....Guess I will have to send them a half dozen emails again!!!!
deltiques-------The Real One since 1999
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CBlev65252
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posted on March 2, 2003 07:30:32 AM new
ebay must have sent the same letter to this other person
Duh, could Ebay get any dumber?  Wow, sounds like you have a nightmare on your hands. I kind of came on in the middle of this. Do they also have your feedback? If it were me? I'd not only email Ebay a hundred times, but I'd email the other person as well. I fell upon a cheat the other day. It really gets my blood boiling when people have to stoop this low. Good luck to you and blessings - I'd be interested to know how this whole thing pans out just in case. . .
Cheryl
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horsey88
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posted on March 2, 2003 08:31:45 AM new
How stupid can you get. Ebay never does that type of stuff by Email. The scammers have found a mark and you are entertaining them while they are ruin your reputation.
Common sense goes a long way sometimes.
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norbertsdragon
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posted on March 2, 2003 08:54:08 AM new
horsey88, that is really rude. I could be wrong but I believe the poster came here for advice not criticism. deltiques, please keep us posted as a similar situation could have happened to any one of us. Hope it works out.
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LADYJEWELS2000
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posted on March 2, 2003 09:07:12 AM new
Don't mess with email - go to Safe harbor live chat and report this immediately.
I had something like this happen to me and ebay got right on it for me. My pass word was hack and then the email on the account was changed. Yes computer stuff from Great Britain with
I first use the revise an item live chat and they sent me the link I needed to get to safe harbor QUICKLY.
I changed every pass word on my computer and everything is ok now.
Ebay will remove any neg FB that may result from this.
Good Luck
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horsey88
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posted on March 2, 2003 09:13:51 AM new
Any email you receive "from Ebay" about your personal information or account details is usually from a scammer.
It has said that clearly on the Ebay Announcement Board continously for the last 2 years. It has been on CNN,FOX and lots of newspapers. Obviously you can lead some folks to the ocean but there is no guarantee they'll ever see the waves.
This person has obviously disclosed his password via one of those scam emails. The scammer took control of his account and is running high priced auctions from that ID at his expense.
In the meantime he is siiting on the sidleines with a new ID created by the scammer.
When accounts are hijacked Ebay will end all auctions of the hijacked account,change the passowrd,scrub any new negative feedback,(since the sacmmare never ships those Sony notebooks),and give control of the account back to the original user.
Hang on a sec........I have to write out a blank check to the bank inspector who just showed up at my door. Apparently a bank teller has been dipping into my account and he wants to catch her in the act. I don't have to worry he says the bank will cover me for up to $1million if anything goes wrong with this sting operation.
Some folks are awfully naive.
[ edited by horsey88 on Mar 2, 2003 09:24 AM ]
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kiara
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posted on March 2, 2003 09:23:56 AM new
deltiques, it is quite obvious that your account has been hacked. Did you go to the ebay page that I suggested last night?
Can you post the e-mails here that you got from ebay? I would be interested in seeing them.
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tomwiii
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posted on March 2, 2003 09:33:22 AM new
deltiques: are you selling LAPTOP PC's listed in GBP's?
Didn't think so! His email is through CAPITAL CELTIC -- you can contact them here:
http://tinyurl.com/6pq2
Ralphie loves Mr Blonde:
"Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"
http://tinyurl.com/5duz
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rarriffle
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posted on March 2, 2003 10:03:11 AM new
how many threads have there been warning people to not follow the link in these emails? anyone that falls for them deserves what happens.
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LADYJEWELS2000
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posted on March 2, 2003 12:27:37 PM new
You don't have to answer those emails or use their links to have your ID stolen. I never reply to them and my ID was stolen.
I even ignored the email ebay sent me verifying the change of email address on my account until I checked my sells and had 9 computer with a BIN listed. You got it - Great Britain.
So don't say it can't happen to you - it can!!
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on March 2, 2003 12:45:01 PM new
ladyjewels2000: Then your password was something easily guessable.
Don't bother denying it.
Look, folks, horsey is right on the money. Folks come here crying about how their eBay account was hacked and it is always because they either responded to one of the scam emails (I NEVER respond to ANY email that purports to be from eBay) or their password is something childishly easy to guess.
With 51 million eBay accounts, no one has to run complex hacking routines to get into your account. I simply do not believe people any more who claim no culpability in the misuse of their eBay account.
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Because of their courage and daring and idealism, we will miss them all the more. --George W. Bush, 02/01/03
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norbertsdragon
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posted on March 2, 2003 01:23:40 PM new
I am a little surprised. No matter what area you are in there is always someone with more knowledge about something than the next. Doesn't make you more intelligent just more knowledgable. Just because someone did not know that you should not respond to fraudulent emails does not make them stupid. Unfortunately, there are some decent, honest people out there that are too trusting I dont think they should be condemned for that though. If anything you should be calling the scammers names as they are the true problem. Just my opinion though.
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LADYJEWELS2000
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posted on March 2, 2003 01:37:35 PM new
fluffy
My password was a combination of letters and number which I don't believe was easily guessed. But then I don't feel like deffending myself to you.
Unlike some people here - I posted to try to help deltiques.
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gina50
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posted on March 3, 2003 07:59:19 AM new
My friend who is in Canada only buys on eBay, does not ever sell, honest as can be with excellent feedback.
Well, Saturday someone got her email password along with her eBay password.
This person put up 2 real expensive electronic auctions on her eBay account, location of seller was in Europe.
One ended right away (was listed as a private auction)and yesterday the buyer left her negative feedback!
Turns out this creep is in Germany!
So beware and check your eBay account often if you do not use it on a daily basis to make sure no one does this to you!
NOT gina50 on ebay
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on March 3, 2003 09:12:34 AM new
Depending on which source you believe, there are either 39 or 51 MILLION eBay accounts.
Your odds of being chosen at random and being the target of a dictionary attack are so poor that you would be better off playing the lottery...you're more likely to win that than be the target of an evil hacker.
It is important that people understand the nature of the threat so that they can react in appropriate ways to defend themselves. So, despite prissy comments to the contrary, I try to make people aware that it is most likely something they themselves did that made them a target.
The level of ignorance (I won't say stupidity) in regard to how eBay works is equalled only by the volume of hydrogen in the universe. Look at the original poster's note...referring to a "site" when they mean their eBay seller's account, speculating that eBay assigned someone else the deltiques username, and stating that eBay had issued a "temporary ID".
If you want eBay's help to resolve a problem, you need to clearly state what the problem is. That has not been done in this case.
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Because of their courage and daring and idealism, we will miss them all the more. --George W. Bush, 02/01/03
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barbarake
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posted on March 4, 2003 05:12:37 AM new
"Depending on which source you believe, there are either 39 or 51 MILLION eBay accounts.
Your odds of being chosen at random and being the target of a dictionary attack are so poor that you would be better off playing the lottery...you're more likely to win that than be the target of an evil hacker. "
Your odds of being chosen at random are high - but not that high. I've been told that these people look for sellers with relatively high feedback (a few hundred) because this is high enough to satisfy most bidders yet not high enough to indicate someone that has lots of auctions constantly going. (Someone selling every day would notice extra auctions popping up.) Also, the feedback has to be good. And it's even better if the account holder has not run any auctions in the past few days (indicating that they might be on vacation). So this would cut the odds way down.
It's still unlikely - but it does happen. Sounds like his person got taken. If so - trust me - they're already kicking themselves. No need to continually tell them that they did something stupid.
[ edited by barbarake on Mar 4, 2003 05:15 AM ]
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meadowlark
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posted on March 4, 2003 06:43:20 AM new
Got email from ebay yesterday stating that they had ended auctions on my site because they had been listed on my site by another party. Then they issued me a temporary ID so I could change my password to get my site back on track. Did as was instructed and everthing was fine for a few hours but when I turned my pc on this morning I had some more auctions listed on my site that were not mine and when I tried to get into my ebay I could not.
I think those of us with lots of experience can easily read between the lines of that statement. Fot the less initiated, the email was proably NOT from Ebay, but from a clever person praticing fraud. Deltiques likley signed on through the provided link in the fraudulaent email, thinking it was from Ebay, and unknowingly gave the dishonest individual their login data by signing onto a fake Ebay site.
The crook had their login data, took over the account, changed the password and started using the good guy's account to practice fraud on unsuspecting buyers by selling high priced items he will not deliver.
The buyers are seeing the good guy's feedback and so will trust the "seller". The Ebay fees will all be charged to the good guy's credit card or bank account. The password was changed so he can't get in to stop it without Ebay's help.
The crook will take the money and run, and is likley already targeting more acocunts to rip off. The good Ebayer will get negative feedback for buyersw ho did not receive their merchandise.
So, is there anyone else who doesn't get what happened here?
NEVER NEVER click on a link in a "Paypal" or "Ebay" email asking you to log in for any reason. ALWAYS go to the site itself separately, make sure the website address begins with "https". The "S" means it is secure. When you go to sign in on Ebay, I suggest clicking on the little blue link that says "Secure Sign in (SSL)" first. The website address will now start with "https" and is secure.
I suggest as well never using the same password for mutliple accounts. Let's say that you sign up with a user name and password on some site to receive an individual's news letter, or shop at some online merchant, or have some other account online that requires a user name and password. Especially acounts that would not require maiximum security related to that site. If you use your Paypal, banking, or Ebay password on those accounts, the secrecy of your password is far less secure. Who works in those small organizations? Do they have access to your password (even though the site may say they don't). Can they hack into it?
I an very active online and have about 60 passwords that are not in the dictionary. I have them on a piece of paper, not in my computer. I memorized the most critical - Paypal, online banking, Ebay, email.
Your critical accounts are only as secure as the least secure site you used that same password on. Make sense?
Patty
[ edited by meadowlark on Mar 4, 2003 07:22 AM ]
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