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E-bay account ripped off
Deckman001 - 1/11/05 at 07:56 PM

Have just found out my account was used for the last week by some SCUM from CHINA, I have now changed my password to recover control of the account, what spyware progs are there to check my comp hasn't been infected by anything to get account details ?? I have Noton internet security and also conect through a Router, any thing else i should do ??
Many thanks
Jason


flak monkey - 1/11/05 at 08:01 PM

Run spybot and more importantly Hijack This (be careful though, if you dont know what to delete post a list of the entries and i will try to help)

I doubt you have got anything on your PC, its more likely that your password was too easy to crack in the first place. Its easy to crack a lot of peoples passwords, even if they have numbers and letters, as people tend to use an obvious combination.

At least you got it back tho

David


Deckman001 - 1/11/05 at 08:10 PM

Yeah hope i got it back, have mailed all the bogus emails to ebay for them to sort out and have asked them to remove all the bogus feedback the hacker gave to others !!, will let you know how it goes
Thanks
Jason


zilspeed - 1/11/05 at 08:18 PM

I had the same last week. I have to say, ebay were very good about it.


fleetwood - 1/11/05 at 09:11 PM

My missus rang me at work a couple of weeks ago and told me our account had been hijacked. When I looked from work, without a word of a lie something like £1/4 millon of gear appeared on our listing. She was in a battle with who ever it was to gain control of the account, ie she was sat there re-entering the account password and
trying to fend off emails from people enquiring. Eventually she lost control completely and ll the emails were being directed to whoever it was. Obivoulsy people began to twig. The listing was asking for contact to be made outside ebay ,hence people smellt something nasty. Ebay were good about it but but contacting them is a nightmare ad having to wait for an online session was painful.
As someone said to me im sure it must be an inside job from Ebay or a key logger some where.
We have installed Web root spy sweeper which seems fairly good. It has a free trial for a week or two.


dave1888 - 1/11/05 at 09:45 PM

I just checked my email and it looks like i have sent an email to myself with no heading but 2 files attached the files are

spam alert_dave@myseven.info.dat (4kb)

does this make any sense?


flak monkey - 1/11/05 at 09:53 PM

No...and dont open it.


britishtrident - 1/11/05 at 10:14 PM

The hijack gets its initial toe hold by spoofing via a popup window that appears over the top of a real ebay page first line of defence only use run a browser that blocks popups eg Firefox
Firefox also has extensions you can down load that help warn you if you get redirected to a spoofed site.