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08-12-2008 12:06 PM |
Careful! Ebay hackers are at it again
Posted By: <b>Bob</b><p>This was a new one for me. During the final 10 minutes of an ebay auction on Sunday night, the listing for the card disappeared from my "My Ebay." I know a lot of us use My Ebay to follow cards so I give this word of warning. My first guess was that there was a late sale of the card and the card was removed from ebay. Frantically I began searching for the card in case My Ebay had a glitch as all the other cards, including a T207 Rassmuson from the same seller were still showing. I had forgotten that I had a snipe set on the particular card, a T207 Fournier, so was trying my best to get a late bid in on the card. I finally found the card (can't even remember how), but it showed I won. I thought something looked strange because although the web page looked identical, the seller feedback was 96.4 and I don't usually buy with a feedback that low. Well, to make the story short, I clicked on the "Pay Now" button and thank goodness this time I used I would send a check instead of using Paypal. Everything seemed fine, I addressed my envelope, wrote my check and got ready to send it in the morning. The next morning I couldn't get on ebay, my password had been changed. I checked my emails and saw that there were 6 emails from ebay indicating transactions were null and void and removed from ebay. the first 5 were T210s I had won, paid for, received recently and feedback left. The last one was the T-207 Fournier. I then got an email from paypal saying that my attempt to access my Paypal account had been denied. <br />This guy had stolen my ebay password then tried to get in to my Paypal account. I immediately changed my ebay password, email password, paypal password but it took 3 hours. I immediately contacted the seller, booksnbeaches, and told her. She was as surprised as I was but thanked me for letting her know and also told me she wondered what had happened since I had purchased cards in the past from her without any problem. I looked on the completed T207 Rassmusson web page which berkut had won and noticed the seller's feedback was showing 100.<br />It was all very weird and I am just sharing it so everyone here will be careful. These damn cretins are everywhere! My transaction was able to be completed by the seller and I but I had a lot of hours of anxiety. I can only conclude that the miscreant had somehow duplicated the T207 Fournier web page and made the "Pay Now" button into a phishing tool to steal my password...
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