Great War truck Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 I am a great E Bay user. I have positive feedback of over 800 and have never had a problem. I received an E mail today from E Bay telling me my account had been blocked due to suspicious activity. Nothing new as i always receive this sort of spam. I was then quite suprised to find that my account had been blocked becuase they were suspicious of the listing of a 60" plasma screen TV. It appears that somehow my password had been harvested and the listing put in so my high feedback could be used as leverage. Anyway, after about 45 minutes work the listing was removed, password changed and access restored. My worry is how was my password harvested. The only idea i have is that i recently put some items up for sale and then had an enquiry from the USA for cost of postage. I guess by clicking on the reply part of the message somehow my password got copied. A bit of a worry. This probably only affects sellers, but the message is that if you receive any e-mail from an interested customer do check on your E Bay messages to see if the message is replciated there. I am quite internet savvy, i am very cautious with fire wall, Norton virus protection etc and i still got caught out. I guess it can happen to us all. I will be extra cautious in the future though. May be i will stop selling thigns on E Bay. Tim (too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 Tim could this of been detrimental to you or just a nuicence,not very savy with it at all.cw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 (edited) What you have probably done is responded to a message from an ebay member & was asked to log in... the page it took you to may of looked like ebay but was a phishing site. Install their eBay account guard... lets you know when you're on a phishing site.... http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/confidence/account-guard.html Also only reply to messages from the ebay messages page & do not respond to emails directly For those that do not know what phising is.. (put your rods away CW) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing Edited September 30, 2008 by Marmite!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 i was asked recently on ebay how much postage would be to ship an item to another country .ebay sent me an email soon after telling me not to respond to this it was a spoof email someone trying it on with me too i guess .....:sweat: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 Only problem with the Account Guard, Lee, is that it only works wit Internet Explorer right now :-( Anyone using alternative browsers such as FireFox, Opera or Googles Chrome will not be able to use it unfortunately, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 (edited) Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/add-ons/ebay/features.html :coffee: For those using other browsers why not just use IE with account guard when browsing eBay :confused: Edited September 30, 2008 by Marmite!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/add-ons/ebay/features.html :coffee: For those using other browsers why not just use IE wit account guard when browsing eBay :confused: This boys on the ball tonight.:tup:: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 1, 2008 Author Share Posted October 1, 2008 What you have probably done is responded to a message from an ebay member & was asked to log in... the page it took you to may of looked like ebay but was a phishing site.Install their eBay account guard... lets you know when you're on a phishing site.... http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/confidence/account-guard.html Also only reply to messages from the ebay messages page & do not respond to emails directly For those that do not know what phising is.. (put your rods away CW) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing Yes, you are quite right. The thing is that i am aware of the risks an dangers, but let my guard drop for a moment and then the fun and games started. At least E-Bay were on the ball as it could have caused all sorts of fun and games. Tim (too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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