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Submitted by robert_tuck on Wed, 18/02/2015
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Be wary, someone has recently hacked into my E-Bay account and diverted my purchases and are sending fraudulent e-mails to get goods from unwary suppliers. Nothing to do with bike stuff thank goodness. Appart from closing the account and loosing my good feedback can't seem to find a way out.

Submitted by robert_wright on Wed, 18/02/2015

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hi

change your password this should stop any more activity on the account

chouse a password with numbers and letters as these are harder to bypass

this will not help the past but will enable you to carry on

regards

bob

Submitted by barry_carson on Wed, 18/02/2015

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i changed my password when asked to on e-bay after that i received 40 e-mails linked to other e-bay members e-mail address,s that had bought the same item as me from the same seller. i bought the item over 3 years ago. i also notice now they want you to link your e-bay account to paypal, ooh eck! . Baz

Submitted by ian_cordes on Thu, 19/02/2015

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Something is going on at the moment, for sure. I received an e-mail which certainly looked as though it came from ebay, very convincing in it's format. It was asking me to pay a very small amount, £1-something, outstanding on my account as seller's fees. As I haven't sold on ebay for some while, I checked my account, which was, of course, £0.00 outstanding.

Had I followed the instructions to make this piffling payment, the scammers would then have my bank, and card details; very clever. They could then have milked me for all I was worth. I forwarded the e-mail to spoof@ebay.co.uk, for their info.

It is a pity the scrotes who carry out these internet scams don't channel their skills into legitimate endeavour.

Submitted by john_holmes on Thu, 19/02/2015

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If your ebay account was hacked a day after you changed the password you should do a deep scan for a Trojan, you could have one that is recording keyboard presses and browser history.

Submitted by robert_tuck on Sat, 21/02/2015

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Hi Laurence, Last year 255 million E-bay users information was Hacked. I'm just one of them. My new laptop (Chinese like most) was pre-programmed by the manufacturer with an insiduous form of malware that pretends to be something it is not (Superfish). Nasty stuff. Anyone still feel safe?.You do?, You are deluded.

Submitted by neil_wyatt on Sun, 22/02/2015

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Robert, My laptop (2006) was subject to Superfish a couple of years ago.

Couldn't get rid of it and it took my local PC expert almost 15 mins to get rid of it. A few weeks later I saw it loading up on here and so I turned it off before it could do it's worse and ane that fixed it. It is malware, just a nuisance, not a virus.

I got it when viewing a newspaper page. If you see anything suspicious loading, hot the off button. By far the safest way.

Submitted by barrie_mundy on Tue, 14/04/2015

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I think I have just been scammed! Norton 650SS crankshaft and conrods, picture was perfect. Said journals not ground. 300 Euros delivered. I was too keen, should have done more research.

Beware garyrauckman8522@hotmail.com

Have had several other scammers trying also.

 


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