EBay Fraud!! Please Help!!

[bengalbelle]

What I find odd about this is spoofers usually get eBay passwords to sell items they don't have using your good feedback as a cover. Look! BengalBelle has a 100% feedback and she's selling a $1000 computer. I bet she's OK.

Perhaps this was a little fishing expedition to see if you were paying attention.

FWIW, I think you did the right thing by getting eBay involved. I would have done the same thing.

Thanks for the support,
I do have 100% feedback, so I guess I would be attractive if someone were going to do that. I don't know what the scammer was trying to accomplish unless it is what you stated, just trying to see if I was paying attention. I don't sell on EBay and although I've been buying for 3 years, I've only bought 14 things so far. I guess it would be easier to scam someone who's not on frequently as opposed to someone checking every day. Luckily I had the email notification.

I must be on some scammer's list, though, because I got an email this morning from "Regions Bank" wanting me to follow the link to update my account information. DS's birthday party is today, but when I get home I'm changing my email address .

 

[robinb]

I just came across this article on AuctionBytes.com. It's about how scammers work:
http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y205/m02/abu0136/s02

Very interesting reading.

 

[seashoreCM]

I started to retract my bid myself, but it gave very specific circumstances under which you can retract your bid. Fraud wasn't one of them so I assumed EBay wanted to handle it.

Psst! <small>For fraud reasons or for reasons I think are legitimate I would attempt to retract the bid myself first anyway and ask questions (of eBay) later</small>!

Protecting yourself comes first, rules come second.

 

[bengalbelle]

I would have retracted the bid if EBay had not. The auction wasn't close to being completed, so there was plenty of time to take action. I'm glad I went through the proper process because I had documentation to back everything up. EBay customer service was great.

Anyway, All is well. EBay has restored my username, my password has been changed twice, all bids were retracted, I had great communication from their customer service, and I'm able to bid again. Sorry I don't know all of the correct terminology for the following, but DH "scanned?" our computer for viruses and hackers and found nothing. He feels like our personal information is secure and since that's his area of expertise, I'm comfortable with that. We already have fraud alert on our credit bureau accounts and I had our bank add comments to our account today just to be on the safe side. I went ahead and pulled a copy of his credit report from all 3 bureaus just to check things out. Thanks again everyone for all of the advice.

 

[bengalbelle]

I just came across this article on AuctionBytes.com. It's about how scammers work:
http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y205/m02/abu0136/s02

Very interesting reading.

Robin I just had the chance to read this article. it's very informative (and also a little frightening). Thanks for posting it.