I bought a real nice Guns and Roses on EBAY yesterday...less than $2300 USD...looked real nice, and the lissting looked 100% legit. Today, I requested the details to send a money order to. I got a reply saying I needed to send the $$ by Wetern Union ASAP to England!! It was in broken English with many spelling mistakes. Looks like a hijacked EBAY account. I've notified them and we'll see what happens. I KNEW it was too good to be true, but check it out, it looks 100% legit!!!   http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA.....K:MEWN:IT&ih=009

Last feedback from 2006, nothing related to pinball, and he has a mint sought after game for sale that he flame polished the ramps on ?

Could have been possible but sounded fishy. He probably saw Treasure Cove auction last week (mint GnR) and found out the Medieval Madness scam was getting old

When it looks to good to be true.........it probably is!!, unfortunately.

Yeah, hind sight is 20/20 but the brevity of the listing is so much like all the other scam ones.  Usually someone with something they know is good is going to use a lot of words to describe it.

I'm pretty sure there is a way that you can request the email of the person you bought from, and possibly get a message to the owner of the account.

For the life of me I can't figure out why eBay and Pay Pal don't get into the Escrow business.  Considering all the time they waste on chargebacks and frauds, you'd think they'd like benefiting from the tidy commission they could make holding money in escrow until proof of delivery is confirmed by the buyer (but then pinch me, maybe I'm dreaming).

Indeed, my account was hijacked last week, it was caught right away.
They tried to sell a Land Rover using my account...lol...hmm let's see the sales history...


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Quoted from Teamatomics

Indeed, my account was hijacked last week, it was caught right away.

I would be worried about how they hijacked your account

Quoted from Teamatomics

Indeed, my account was hijacked last week

OK, I'll byte... how does that happen ?

Does someone mysteriously figure out your password
or did they use some clever phising method ?

And even If your account is hijacked, any paypal payment would still go to you no ?
(... or can they change the Paypal info to point to another account that doesn't
match your eBay address ?  )

I admit that I should know these things to proctect myself against them,
but I don't know how an account gets hijacked...

Steph

Quoted from Steph

OK, I'll byte... how does that happen ?

It's simple really.
Someone bad sends you an email that 'looks' indentical to an email from ebay, and the legit looking content says something to the affect that you should log in & change your password (for one of a variety of reasons),
of course they provide a quick link to ebay (or one that looks like ebay), which when you click on, brings you yet to another really legit looking ebay page that's not. The unsuspecting enters there old user/password to make the change, and viola !!!
I have gotten numerous emails like this in the past. If you simply check the URL of their link, you can usually tell that it's bogus.

edit: It's the similar ones from paypal that can really hurt. In a matter of minutes, you have your account drained (by your own username).

I know what i do is change my pass once a month.

Happened to me. I got a screen that looked identical to a Ebay login screen and I logged in. They got my password. What gives it away is that it does not take you to the proper page you had chosen and that is how you know you have been had.
I was selling a couple items at the time and he cancelled all the bids and and then emailed Buy-it-Now offers to them and then he setup scam auctions using my ID. Had to notify Ebay and tooks weeks to resolve.

Quoted from ToMMy

It's simple really.
Someone bad sends you an email that 'looks' indentical to an email from ebay,

Ok, so it's a phishing scam...

You have to unknowingly give out your password.
... it's not like they can hack into your account and "steal" your password.

I guess having always been suspicious of ANY e-mail asking me to login to anything,
I've always just ignored those as scam,

The only really clever (and creative..) scam I've seen latetly was the one
posted here on MAACA not too long ago where someome put a FA link in RGP
and the link took you to a fake page that looked EXACTLY like an ebay auction.

You thought you were at an eBay auction, but it was actually a phishing site.
If you made the mistake of putting a bid on the item, they would get your
account name and password.

This is very clever because unlike the e-mail that looks suspicious by asking you to log-on,
this approach lures  the unsuspecting user to something he WANTS to see or bid on.

Had the auction been for a Joust pin with a BIN of $1000, I would have been a gonner !    

Scammers are everywhere.... be vigilant...


Steph

Quoted from Steph

Scammers are everywhere.... be vigilant...

I get "Phishing" emails from banks, amazon, ebay, paypal and many others. But what the real emails from these companies don't do is say, "click this link to log into  your account" or "Click here to sign in" or cilck here for whatever reason. They will in most cases simply tell you to go to the website in question and log in from there.

As was mentioned before, simply check the URL that the emails tell you to go to ans see if they look legit.
Paypal would be https://www.paypal.com so if the url says something like cgi.login.paypal.com or anything other than the actual site address then stay away. ebay would be http://www.ebay.ca. If it does not make sense don't click it and forward it to the respective emails like spoof@ebay.com and spoof@paypal.com with all the header info.

The ones that look really legit, I always go to the site on my own, not through any link, and look for the offer/question involved, It is never there!

Dave