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Henry has it right -- it's pretty obvious that eBay internal site security
has been compromised in a big way. That's why PJ suddenly found himself dealing
with an eBay that was easy to contact and willing to fall all over
themselves to help him put down this hacker who managed to steal his eBay
identity.
We all know that, in the past, eBay really didn't care about most of the
problem stuff -- but now they are reaping what they have sown because their
benign neglect has encouraged the hackers to the point where they have now moved
beyond simple fraud and spoofs and phishing to actually breaking into eBay
security and hijacking accounts directly when the victim hasn't done
anything careless or clicked on any links in any emails he shouldn't have.
This is a whole new kettle of fish and a potentially disastrous situation
for eBay if they don't get a handle on it pretty quick.
By the way, I hate to ruin everyone's day, but I feel I should report
this:
I asked around on a couple of other lists about the thing that happened to
PJ. I was told by one usually-reliable source that he had *always* used eBay's
message center to respond to seller questions and that one time recently he was
in the message center and clicked on "reply to question" and his password was
also compromised -- even though he was answering the mail from *within* eBay's
message center! Yeah, I know... if true, that totally sucks.
From now on, I will have a separate email account that I use to respond to
all unsolicited messages, no matter where they claim to be from -- and that
email address will NOT be connected to any account in any way... not to my eBay
account, or my MPB account... not even to my account at
Pickles-R-Us.com
-- JR
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