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They got me -- now what? (ebay account hacked)
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| 2/4/06
Posted on 02/04/2006 10:16:48 AM PST by pabianice
I received an email from ebay titled "A26 TKO NOTICE Restored Account" that states that someone has hacked my ebay account and is using it to swindle other people. It urged me to go to my account and change my password, the go to "Securing my account."
So I tried to, but my ebay account password has been changed by the hacker.
WTF do I do? I have no way to contact ebay. Is there a phone number I can call them with? This really sucks. If it can happen to me it can happen to anyone.
Help!
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KEYWORDS: haimusingtehinternet; nobodyislistening; phishing; tantrum; veyveynotloggedin; youvebeenscammed
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posted on
02/04/2006 10:16:49 AM PST
by
pabianice
To: pabianice
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posted on
02/04/2006 10:17:37 AM PST
by
xcamel
(Exposing clandestine operations is treason. 13 knots make a noose.)
To: pabianice
Make sure that this email itself is not a phishing scam intended to get you to disclose personal information...
Sorry, don't quite know what else to say...
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posted on
02/04/2006 10:17:51 AM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: pabianice
Could be a fake. Go into the ebay site not from the link on the email, but through the www.ebay.com
If you can log in, what u did was tell bad guys your password.
Change the password and u should be ok.
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posted on
02/04/2006 10:17:57 AM PST
by
HitmanLV
(Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
To: pabianice
How do you know the email wasnt from the hacker and the password u went in went to him?
To: pabianice
If you followed the link in the email, then you've been had. That's called "phishing": the email wasn't really from EBay, and the link didn't really take you to EBay. It took you to the phisher's web site, set up to look like EBay, where they fooled you into telling them your username and password.
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posted on
02/04/2006 10:18:52 AM PST
by
Shalom Israel
(Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
To: pabianice
You can only email ebay and wait for them to respond. They have a very active fraud department that deals with this everyday.
You may also try to Google ebay customer service or fraud prevention (or some other combination of words).
The rule of thumb is: NEVER open or reply ANY emails that claim to be from ebay/paypal/your bank/email admin and want you to 'verify' your information. They are ALL scams.
Assume that if you have not made an inquiry that they are replying to, the email is fraudulent.
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posted on
02/04/2006 10:20:24 AM PST
by
Al Simmons
("Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die" - Theodore Roosevelt)
To: Al Simmons
8
posted on
02/04/2006 10:22:16 AM PST
by
garyb
To: garyb
No, no, no. You weren't listening. I can no longer log into ebay. It says "password invalid." Someone has changed it on me. This is the real ebay site, accessed from a clean login.
Do they have a phone number?
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posted on
02/04/2006 10:24:03 AM PST
by
pabianice
To: pabianice
Dude...You gave your account password to a hacker. You've been had. Call EBAY now. NOW.
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posted on
02/04/2006 10:26:34 AM PST
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: pabianice
If you linked to what you thought was ebay from the email (which was most likely a fake identical site) and then typed your real password in - you may have compromised your real ebay account password.
Go immediately to www.ebay.com directly (type the url in by hand), log into your real account and change your real password to something new. Do this right away.
To: pabianice
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posted on
02/04/2006 10:30:17 AM PST
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Maximus_Ridiculousness
No one is listening. I did not give my password to anyone. I received an email from ebay telling me someone was using my account fraudulently and to go and change my password. I logged out, opened a clean web page, and tried to log into ebay. My password has already been changed. I cannot leave any messages because I cannot log in. HOW DO I CONTACT EBAY??
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posted on
02/04/2006 10:31:01 AM PST
by
pabianice
(contact ebay??)
To: pabianice
It's a "phish" scam; delete it.
To: pabianice
If you can't get into your real account, go to the main ebay page, click on 'LIVE HELP'. You do not need to be logged into an account to do this. Hope this helps.
To: pabianice
HOW DO I CONTACT EBAY?? See post 12. (I don't think you have to be logged in)
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posted on
02/04/2006 10:34:09 AM PST
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: pabianice
Anything from TEaseBay and payola pal is immediately deleted...twice and forever.
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posted on
02/04/2006 10:35:16 AM PST
by
eleni121
('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
To: pabianice
"I received an email from ebay telling me someone was using my account fraudulently and to go and change my password."
I get this same email every day, telling me my account was accessed fraudulently and to go change my password. It's a hoax. If you can't log in, you should begin an online chat with an eBay representative immediately, to resolve the problem. Click the "live help" link on their home page.
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posted on
02/04/2006 10:36:58 AM PST
by
jdm
(All Your Base, House, Senate, WH, Judicial Belong to Us)
To: pabianice
I got it, too. It's a scam.
How do I know? I've never used Ebay!
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posted on
02/04/2006 10:38:57 AM PST
by
JennysCool
(Non-Y2K-Compliant)
To: pabianice
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posted on
02/04/2006 10:41:09 AM PST
by
ferri
(Be Politically Incorrect: Support the Constitution!)
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