This was a huge close call and almost cost someone $30,000 today.
I am currently selling some stuff on Ebay. 4 cars, a boat and some other items.
Last night I get an email that said my credit card was used to list a new account on Ebay to sign in and verify the charge. After I punched in my name and password it asked for my credit card info PLUS my PIN number. I knew something was up and forwared the email to Ebay. It came back saying is was a scam. I was relieved I didn't put my Credit card info in. I didn't even realize I put my Ebay name and password.
This morning I woke up, check my auctions. I tried to log on and it said incorrect password. I checked my email and had 2 emails from Ebay. one was password changed, the second was Email address changed. I then noticed several items i won but never really bid on. I contacted Ebays live support, the said my accout was compromised. The made me use another email account and change my password. I assume it was over. This afternoon, I get a call from my partner on my boats secretary. She said I guy just called and wanted to verify the address to send the $30,000 deposit. I told her I didn't talk to anyone about a deposit and the auction on the Cigarette isn't over. My parner gets on the phone with the guy, and the guy said he got an email from me, I will knock $75,000 off the buy it now price if he immediatly wires or overnights a $30,000 deposit. The person that stole my account info emailed all the highest bidders and offered them deals on my boat for immediate cash. Thank god I put my partners phone number in the ad or some guy would have been out $30K.
Pretty Scary!!!

That is nutzzzzzzzs

There are so many criminals EVERYWHERE! You can't trust anyone anymore.

karma?

This is going to be the end of ebay. They better get serious about this crap or they will soon be done. There is no way that I would buy anything from there any more unless I could pick it up or have someone I know pick it up for me. Small stuff ok but nothing over a couple hundred.

Jon

Never happen, ebay isn't going anywhere, for every 1 scam there are 10's of thousands if not more closed legitimate auctions. All ya gotta do is watch yourself, it's quite simple

I do a lot of transactions on Ebay, both buying and selling. If your careful and deal with people with high feedback you'll be fine. I should have been more careful when I signed on to that email link. Theres a place where you can see any messages Ebay has sent to you. Now that I know that, I will check that first before opening emailsthat say from Ebay.

The easiest tip off to email scams is first just mousing over the link in the email, feel free to click it and look in the address bar and see if you were redirected to another address. Once you see one email scam you can see them all a mile away.

Ya in MyEbay you can see any and all messages.

I think I get an email at least every other day claiming that my e-bay account has been compromised. Luckily, my email account gives me a notice that the sender could not be verified. Best bet is never to click on a link in email. Go to the site itself to login.