General Chat

Pat My husband had the exact same problem. he had received no mail fromEbay asking for details etc, but one day when he went to log on he couldn't. He thought it was strange, but the next day he got a mail form someone with details of the item he was wanting to buy!!!. he received serveral of these, then he finally received one saying that his request to change his e-mail address was successful!!!! H econtacted ebay as soon as the e mail started coming but have to got to say they didn't appear to bothered that someone else was using his name etc. He used the 'live chat' to sort the problem and the first person he spoke to was a pratt!!!!! They kept saying we'll send you a mail click on the link and change the password, but of course he couldn't as the hackers had changed his password. For love nor money could he make this person see that!!! He tried again the next day and got a Different person who sorted it in a matter of minutes. Nothing else was hacked just his ebay account. And we managed to stop any bidding or selling while the problem was on going. I mailed the people direct when they sent us info on items he was supposedly bidding on, warning them of the problem. Touch wood no problems since Shelli

Hi Crista. No it wasn't like that, when it came I said to other half I'd read something like that. I'm sure it was from ebay, as I asked them for my ID name and they sent it. Pat

John. Thats what my neice has said, Ebay sent us the address that it was changed to,bl***y cheeky sods. I think that is what we are going to do, set up another account. Pat

Pat, You didn't get an email like this did you and then reply? "***Urgent Safeharbor Department Notice*** eBay Fraud Mediation Request You have received this email because you or someone had used your account to make fake bids at eBay. For security purposes, we are required to open an investigation into this matter. THE FRAUD ALERT ID CODE CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE WILL BE ATTACHED IN OUR FRAUD MEDIATION REQUEST FORM, IN ORDER TO VERIFY YOUR EBAY ACCOUNT REGISTRATION INFORMATIONS. Fraud Alert ID CODE: 00937614 (Please save this Fraud Alert ID Code for your reference.) To help speed up this process, please access the following form to complete the verification of your eBay account registration informations: http://scgi.ebay(.)com/verify_id=ebay &fraud alert id code=00936614 . Please Note: If we do not receive the appropriate eBay account verification within 48 hours, then we will assume this eBay account is fraudulent and will be suspended. The purpose of this verification is to ensure that your eBay account has not been fraudulently used and to combat the fraud from our community. We appreciate your support and understanding, as we work together to keep eBay a safe place to trade. Thank you for your patience in this matter. Regards, Safeharbor Department (Trust and Safety Department) eBay Inc." Crista

Have you got firewall on your PC? Obvious someone is busy hacking!

Did you ever see the sale of a blokes EX'es wedding dress? on e.Bay!....It was hilarious lol....It went on n on for ages....He modeled it himself (tatoos n all)...Regs on ebay wanted more n more...lol

Pat...cut your loses and make a new account darlin....and PDQ! By the way...Im an e.bay widow :s

Well what a cheek, my hubby lives on ebay, tonight had email from them, saying that they had changed email address as requested. We haven't asked for that. when I contacted them, they said that a third party had requested it and had been bidding using that address. So some one has got into our account. Have phoned bank.. My heads spinning after trying to sort it, now can't log on as our ID name is invalid, although ebay sent it to us, to confirm. Sitting here with steam coming out of my ears.. Pat