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warning i received an email purportedly from ebay, had all the ebay security features was addressed to mne personally etc, apparently about an item number 84416798, I did not recognise the number or sender but as it appeared genuine I opened it and it said something like "have you made your mind up yet?"
I have no idea what it was about, I did a search on ebay for the item number and sender there was no trace.
I can only assume it was an attempt to gain access to my computer so I have changed all my passwords but of course the offender may have access to these as well if he has planted something on my computer so i have notified ebay security and as in this post am not using any passwords to avoid them being picked which is a bit inconvenient but can go to library for the time being, AVG never picked anything up and i have done a couple of different security checks, but be aware. I wont be sending any messages from the computer till I sort things out.
the sender was PACIFIC-REAL-ESTATE(12103)
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any sus ebay emails forward to [email protected] they will tell you if its fake.
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John,
Ebay do use a tracker from within the site, I know this for sure, as I once had a conversation with an ebay employee about this at an ebay Sydney academy. He told me they use this tracker to monitor many things on a user of the site. As for emails
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I did notify ebay.
The message did not appear in 'my ebay'
So I have assumed it was fake, but i received the message in my emails ans without thinking opened it. There were no attachments so that's something, and I have run several different scans, I
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i got the same email . i get 1 a week every week. i got hacked what they do is send you that email and you klick on the msg and it opens the log in screen (a fake) you log in and it says thers a prob but they now have all your info. (no bank card No: tho
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right so if you don't reply there is not much risk?
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i gave up on ebay as a bad joke? bullsh-t products, imaginary products, non existant sellers, and then when i did pay my bill to ebay, they harrased me for 6 months, saying i hadnt paid,!!! never again,
i only buy from trading post, and sell there,
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fallingbear,
you've got to be kidding - ebay is the one place you can buy a car and practically restore, rebuild it to near new condition.
Imagine for one minute will you, 20 million transactions worldwide everyday, thats 40 million people selling and b
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very well said ozchevy, i'm 500+ positive and have had no dramas whatsoever with the ebay format. it is a good thing!
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Its a good thing. Sort of. It has killed the swap meet scene. And the fees are outrageous.
20 million transactions a day. Now if the fees were $1 per transaction.. which they are not. ($1 minimum to list, then scaled up from there depending on pr
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I agree edelbrock but if ebay is where the actio is what can you do? It's fine to have principles but thaty won't get the bits you need. The latest racket from ebay is forcing everyone to use paypal because they some outrageous price for paypal, so new se
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Let me clarify something about Paypal.
Paypal is an international money exchange, which up until a year and a half ago were a seperate company. Ebay bought Paypal out and now own it. This makes ebay one of the worlds largest companies. Despite the fees
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Ebay no longer offer buyer protection for goods paid for by any other method than paypal. I did close my store and have not renewed it because of the costs.
I just sell ad hoc.
Ebay have a habit of refusing to enter into correspondence when you have a p
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John,
Did you try going through ebay "Livehelp"
This is ebay U.S based.
I've found this to be very sucessful, as it's much like a MSN conversation with someone from ebay.
Look - ebay does have it's faults, but there simply is no better online au
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I know Oz but to be honest can't be bothered starting any more hassles have more than enough things to waste my time on already
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