Page 1 of Ebay account hijacked

Can anyone explain how someone has managed to get my password when I NEVER even download any spam but delete it by Mailwasher.

AVG is running and has picked up nothing and also Zonealarm is running normally

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Have you had any emails from potential buyers asking questions about something you are selling? I had one last year which looked 100% authentic and I clicked the Respond Now button in the bed of the email which linked me to a spoof ebay site. I then input my username and password and within hours the scammer had put up over 100 fake listings on my account with Buy It Now linked to his PayPal account.

No, no activity at all. The account has been dormant for ages.
Until I get 24 emails last night all purporting to be enquiries after items for sale and all from the same organisation (www.ceto888.com)

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contact ebay via email & tell them, even if you don`t use it you don`t wantr to be liable for anything they get upto !!

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contact ebay via email & tell them, even if you don`t use it you don`t wantr to be liable for anything they get upto !!


Already done, had an automated reply which I`ve replied to now waiting for whatever they do.
Personally I`d close the account and start again as it was only ever used to sell 4 or 5 items a couple of years ago.

Really must get into this Ebay thingy as the lofts groaning with stuff.

What I`d really like to know is how they got the password.


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This item was edited on Sunday, 25th March 2007, 13:02

My mother`s account has been `hi-jacked` twice in a year. The first time I put it down to my step-dad visiting "dodgy" sites, the second time there`s no way it could have been a virus or her giving out her password.

I know there`s one famous hacker at the minute who Ebay are trying to catch ( see: here ) but the likely hood of it being him is low.

I`d say someone just guessed your password via brute force, was it a singular word?

Needless to say I now changed my mothers to a string of letters and numbers, some in lowercase and other in capitals.


I did find Ebay were helpful though the two times i contacted them, one via the Live section to chat to someone directly, and the second time they reset everything back to normal (original email address, so I could get a password sent to it) without even asking, so I dunno what happened the second time!

This item was edited on Sunday, 25th March 2007, 13:35

Well we seem to be on the way to getting it sorted but I have two totally different emails both purporting to be from ebay on exactly the same subject.
I will go with the one that says it is resetting my password and question and try that after typing the addresses directly into the browser when the reset info arrives.

I think passwords in future will be generated by Access manager which is where i keep all sensitive log in stuff.


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