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Some c*nt using my email addy for his ebay

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:31 pm
by Jubz
not only that he has hijacked my account, which means he could be using my paypal??? dont know how to check this- HELP please

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:38 pm
by Jubz
Paypal's alright thank fuck. What a complete c*nt.

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:07 pm
by metalboxproducts
fuck

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:18 pm
by bagelator
i feel your pain jubzcarz. i've had to relist a phone 4 times now due to this shit - twice cos accounts been hijacked. the latest auction ended 3 days ago, ithe bids wer fine weighing in at at £200 odd, and then some tnuc bid £1019 - like i'll ever see that. i'm considering giving it away now it's become such a pain in the arse.

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:31 pm
by Jubz
Seems to be the scam of the moment. Changed my password for email and paypal so should be alright now, watch out for m.rosman 1980 bidding on your shit then, think they may have bid on some phones judging by the emails I got :evil:

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:31 pm
by showguns
had my gmail account hijacked over the weekend. gotta wait a week before i can get it back. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:40 pm
by marsyas
happend to me too, someone accessed my paypal in nigeria.
thankfully it got sorted.

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:07 pm
by the wiggle baron
bagelator wrote:i'm considering giving it away now it's become such a pain in the arse.
SHOTGUN!

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:31 pm
by thump rat
Someone hacked into mine the other day, buying subs, PS3's, PSP's, Phones, comcorders and shit, luckily it seems that ebay have cancelled my account. Dodgey shit.

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:45 pm
by ufo over easy
yeah happened to mine last week too. got 48 'bid cancelled' emails in my inbox and stuff.. all he was bidding on was phones, computers and stuff like that. Extra weird because it appears that his address, which he put in my account as well, is in the neighbouring postcode in Leeds...

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:56 pm
by showguns
fack they got my ebay account too. :( :( :(

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:14 pm
by seckle
this happened to someone at work.

passwords passwords passwords. too many people are making the mistake of having the ebay password and their email password all the same thing. ebay owns paypal. so once they have access to your ebay, they get access to your paypal.

1. make sure your password is military grade. numbers, letters, symbols
2. make sure you've got separate email addresses for paypal and ebay.
3. get an ebay security key
http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/security_key.html

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:16 pm
by Rob H
happened to me on friday as well :evil:

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:24 pm
by emalkay
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:17 pm
by *grand*
lol.. are these guys targetting dubstepers what u all easy prey sort it out.

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:45 pm
by seckle
also, i shouldn't need to say this but DON'T use dictionary words. this is the first thing these phishing programs do. phish your password for all dictionary words in the 4 main latin languages. if you want to use a dictionary word, or name, make sure you reverse it, and add numbers and symbols.

example :

bollox

would be

b*110x

and

janet

would be

t3n@j

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:52 am
by opwolf
Same happened to me last week, nearly shat myself when I saw all those bids for plasma tvs and playstation 3s in my inbox.

Its put me right off using ebay now

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:06 am
by ikarai
just got back from Germany today to find my accounts had been hijacked as well, some address in Nigeria. Think ebay are gettin wise to it tho, they froze my account before anything could happen: anything expensive anyway, he managed to win a book:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... &rd=1&rd=1

:?: