Ebay users beware!!

[jleger98]

I just had an interesting experience. While I was sitting here "working", I just got notices from ebay about 20 new items that had been listed on my account - and just to be clear, I didn't list them. I suspected a phishing scam, so I did NOT click on the email links, but went and logged into my account by typing in the address. When I got to my account, there in fact were 20 items, all listed within 60 seconds of each other.

I checked my paypal account and that is fine. But my ebay account now had a $60 balance on it.

Had to jump through some hoops to get the items deletes and the fees credited back, but for the record ebay was very good about it.

Anyway, if you use ebay, watch out for this sort of stuff. I've been a member for 10 years and never had this problem, but somehow, someone figured out how to get into my account

[Razzman]

WOW! I've been a member for around eight years and never had one issue. Better check!

[da.bell]

Looks like it is time for a password change......

[Razzman]

I'm good, still have my .01 credit on my account

[TigeDuner]

I am an avid ebay user with over 1,500 transactions and have not had such an experience. Glad ebay could fix things for you.

[evil0ne]

After 5+ years they made me change my password for security reasons. I guess it was a good run.

[da.bell]

Being an IT professional myself, I change my password often. It is very important because a password can be as powerful as your signature in some cases when it comes to agreeing with something.

[evil0ne]

Being an IT professional myself, I change my password often. It is very important because a password can be as powerful as your signature in some cases when it comes to agreeing with something.

So am I and I say bah-humbug to changing my password.


I can't remember all of them and syncing them across all my banks, websites, webmail, etc is nearly impossible. At work there are systems that require different expirations and keeping those together is tough. What year is it and biometrics is still being "talked" about, lets move out of the archaic times of having to remember passwords.

[jleger98]

So am I and I say bah-humbug to changing my password.


I can't remember all of them and syncing them across all my banks, websites, webmail, etc is nearly impossible. At work there are systems that require different expirations and keeping those together is tough. What year is it and biometrics is still being "talked" about, lets move out of the archaic times of having to remember passwords.

Amen bro!!

I have been in tech for 10 years now, and there is no end to the number of passwords I have to keep track of. So as a fall back I use minor variations of the same one. That said, its not something that you'd ever guess, like my kids bday or something. But yeah, biometrics would be awesome. Finger on the keypad, and an 128 r 256-bit encryptedcode gets sent over the network to authenticate you and you only. Bring it on!!

[da.bell]

Do what you want to do but be careful.

[evil0ne]

At work I just add a number at the end, I ran out of passwords that I can remember so now I'm just as insecure as the next person.

[RID22]

I had my Ebay identity stolen by a fake ebay page. The guy emailed me a question on the item I was selling, and I clicked on the link he sent to respond. His paged asked for a login, which I inputed. I quickly noticed something was a little weird about his page, so I tried to change my password. He had already logged into my account and attempted to change my password. Fortunately, I responded quickly enough to correct this issue before it blew up on me. Don't ever respond to an ebay question directly from your Outlook, always login to ebay to view the question on their website. I learned with minimal damage.

[Domsz06]

wow, I always respond via my email. I"ll quit doing that. Guess I'll go change my password now. I use combo's of names, numbers and caps. I figure that ought to be ok.

[evil0ne]

wow, I always respond via my email. I"ll quit doing that. Guess I'll go change my password now. I use combo's of names, numbers and caps. I figure that ought to be ok.

Care to give an example.... I love social engineering.

[Domsz06]

ha ha ha, NOT a chance!! but I did change my password after this letter