Ebay acct. hijacked I think--Nigerians!!

[philemer]

Just notified today, by numerous emails, that I have won numerous items on ebay. I've not bid on anything there in months. I tried to sign into my ebay acct. but it failed. I reset my password, logged in, and found in My Messages that I had won many auctions for about $1500 total. Damn, am I ticked. I reported all thses to ebay & told them my acct. had been hijacked. Question: Is there anything else I should do? Can't find a phone # to call them. They say they'll contact me when they've finished investigating. Some of the listings had Nigeria mentioned as location. All the sellers had low # of feedbacks. Is my 100% feedback history?

TIA,
Phil

 

[Htoo0]

Had that happen to a co-worker a few years ago when he responded to one of those e-mails from 'e-bay' (NOT). They even got his credit card # so he had to start with a new account, cards et al. Don't know how they handle it now. Good luck!

 

[joestein]

It happened to me. Somehow they got my account info and were selling bogus items through my account.

The sad thing is that even after changing the account name and pswds it continued to happen. Sounds like someone on the inside!


After the second time, EBAY refused to allow me an account unless I send them a copy of a credit card bill (like that is going to happen). So I just opened a yahoo mail account and use that now for ebay.

Joe

 

[Arkansas Winger]

If You Reply To An Email - You are inviting TROUBLE!

Any time you reply to an email from ebay, paypal, yahoo, banks, etc by using the link in the message you leave yourself open to having your account or any other personal information hijacked.

If you receive an email that you believe might be authenic, don't reply using any link in the message, instead go directly to the website you have been using for that account and if the email was a valid request for information you will find it there.

I have found that in 99.9 percent of the time those emails you receive wanting information from you are BOGUS! :annoyed:

 

[geekette]

I thought the Nigerians were busy finding people to deposit their fortunes in US banks?

 

[philemer]

Any time you reply to an email from ebay, paypal, yahoo, banks, etc by using the link in the message you leave yourself open to having your account or any other personal information hijacked.

If you receive an email that you believe might be authenic, don't reply using any link in the message, instead go directly to the website you have been using for that account and if the email was a valid request for information you will find it there.

I have found that in 99.9 percent of the time those emails you receive wanting information from you are BOGUS! :annoyed:

You're correct. I responded to a couple only through my ebay acct., after I changed my password, telling seller I did NOT bid on their item. I also reported all these bogus sales to ebay fraud so I'm hoping for a good resolution.

Phil

 

[mayson12]

I thought the Nigerians were busy finding people to deposit their fortunes in US banks?

They are perpetrating all kinds of crimes. My sister who has a profile on a couple of online dating sites, found this out when a she started "conversing" with a guy who was "going to Africa on business". A month or so after communication started, he emailed her a sob story about his daughter needing medical treatment. The first thing I told her was, "Don't send him any money." Sure enough, there is a website called Romancescam.com where tons of these scammers steal pictures of male and female models from model agency websites, then set up profiles on various dating sites using different names. They start chatting, then eventually a sob story asking for money occurs. Most women see through them, but there are a lot of lonely women who fall for a charmer and send them a couple of thousand dollars. My sister reported the guy to the dating service that matched them and they kicked him off, but he'll be back with new pics, new name and new story.

 

[Carol C]

There's another scam...not sure if Nigerians...I got in my email inbox. Somebody posing as a US vet serving in Iraq, needing to get money over to a USA account, blah blah blah. It really galls me that they'll even use and tarnish the good names of our soldiers to further their nefarious schemes to bilk folks of money. I don't even think there's any one government agency that oversees and polices internet scams; it's like the outlaw territory of the Wild Wild West (still has the "www" too!) :annoyed:

 

[mtgolfer]

Phil, a similar thing happened to me and the e-bay fraud department cleared it up. They set me up with a new password and then e-mailed it to me and told me to go in and change it. Everything is alright now and it took about a week to get it all cleared up. Hopefully you will have the same results.

Bob

 

[philemer]

Phil, a similar thing happened to me and the e-bay fraud department cleared it up. They set me up with a new password and then e-mailed it to me and told me to go in and change it. Everything is alright now and it took about a week to get it all cleared up. Hopefully you will have the same results.

Bob

Bob,
Ebay officials have cleared up the whole disaster!! They closed, and nullified, all the auctions "I" had bid on. The damn crooks are alive and well in Nigerian. They even went in and changed my preferred mailing address to someone in Nigeria.

Phil