posted on February 22, 2006 10:07:22 AM
Well I found a hacked account today, was interesting to see. First one I have run across to see results in the feedback. If interested look here to see feedback the hacker did through their account. All mutually withdrawn. Guess poor user had to go through hoops to do them all. Left feedback
Looks like Ebay would physically remove them from view but NOOOOO. This is recent too.
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"Por favor, no exprima el Charmin."
[ edited by irked on Feb 22, 2006 10:09 AM ]
posted on February 22, 2006 02:43:36 PM
my 10 year + account was hyjacked this afternoon for 4 hours. What a nightmare. Thank God I was sitting here typing auctions so could get it taken care of immediatly. I had to change ever number in my life save my hip measurments! While I was waiting for ebay live to help I gave serious thought to getting a real job. This is stressful ---- !!!! that I really don't need.
What do people get fom hyjacking an account? I'm serious, I don't understand.
posted on February 22, 2006 02:57:51 PM
"What do people get fom hyjacking an account? I'm serious, I don't understand"
They get your good name/feedback. They post a large number of high dollar 1 day auctions and pray they end and get paid before anyone finds out the account has been hijacked. The buyers looking at your auctions (the hijackers listing's) thinks they are real because they are usually looking at the listing's of a ebay seller that has a good feedback reputation.
In the end if it is not caught in time a large number of ebay buyers get burned and you the seller has a hell of a time getting thing's straightened out.
They say your memory's the second thing to go, I just can't remember what the first thing is.
posted on February 22, 2006 07:35:40 PM
Ebay has got to do something about their sign on page always showing up. Most people just keep signing on every time they are asked to, thinking they have no reason to suspect a user name/password harvesting website is really what they are signing in to!
Hopefully Ebay will delete all of the negs that the sellers were given while under the influence of the hijacker.
posted on February 22, 2006 09:16:09 PM
Mike Thanks for the tutorial. I guess one of my biggest problems in life is that I DON'T think like a crook.It takes someone clearly and simply stating the what, when, where's, hows and whys. Sometimes in this modern text message, techno world I am lost. This afternoon when this happened I was not feeling well and had to stop "my life" and deal with changing a lot of passwords with verizon,ebay,paypal, and incredimail... all so someone in the world could use me. Being hijacked is akin to being raped! My hard earned, many hours of hard earned,+ feedback... my name, being USED!
As for how I or anyone gets hijacked beats me! I am very careful about answering emails, opening any and every thing. I try to fly under the radar just quietly make my money and pay my bills. I'm tired
posted on February 22, 2006 09:51:23 PM
The hijacked account referred to by the OP is not a typical hijacked account. These all look like normal purchases made by the legitimate account holder, for which they had not yet left feedback. Someone got their password and bombed all these sellers with negs. It was done in two batches yesterday afternoon, the first at 3:49 and the second at 3:56 PM. It looks more like a case of malicious harrassment against the buyer than an attempt to take over the account with the intention of listing fraudulent auctions. The strange thing is that their Ebay account may be intact and never compromised at all. This could easily have been an intrusion into any third party service that provides for leaving bulk feedback that the victim may be subscribed to.
If Murphy's law is correct, everything East of the San Andreas Fault will slide into the Atlantic
posted on February 23, 2006 09:04:27 AM
BJ - you have to occasionally think like a thief. That's how you spot scams. Instead of looking at a situation as an honest person, turn it around and look at it as if you were a thief. How would this be advantageous to you. What can you get out of it or what can you do with with the info you get from it.
It's amazing how little people pay attention and think. One of the scams I used to see in San Diego actually had people lining up to give out their personal info. Someone would set up a table with a pile of T-shirts, sports bags, portable radios etc. which you would get free for filling out an application for a credit card. The scammers would invest a couple hundred in the freebies, pick up a few handfuls of credit card applications and set up their table. At the end of the day they walk away with billing info, birthdate info and social security number of dozens of people. they can take all that ingo and fill out another app with their address and start wreaking havok on peoples lives just because the person did not think.
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posted on February 23, 2006 11:18:47 AM
Sparkz I didn't even think about that. We here at Vendio can leave feedback from here. I do it all the time. Didn't even think about that happening but knew it was weird that only feedback was the hacked part of their account.
I have learned through the boards just how to partly think like a crook when wanting to buy something so I might could spot bad deals. That didn't sound right, but I use to think like honest TRUSTING person until I got stung by a bad sell that was wrong in all way because the seller was a crook and I didn't spot the signs. That is when I started using message boards to learn the ins and outs from other folks.
Fenix --See I didn't know about that possibility until now, I am still too trusting that people are as honest as I hope I am .. Thanks for heads up. Thanks goodness I don't fill out for credit cards or other things now. I say now as I did fill out for a contest at some fair and got slammed on my phone and it took a week out of my life straightening it out to learn never fill out a contest form if you have to sign a line with real super small printing anywhere on the card. That was a nightmare I never want to ever experience again..
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