DMRick said:
By the way, most often when you get a message saying they want you to verify your ebay password and email address, are phishes..not even really from ebay. Then you go and put the password in and voila! They are in.
Remember..eBay will always address you by your full name, and will never ask for your password. You should always go directly into eBay yourself, and never click on the url provided. eBay will not ask you to "click" here ro verify the changes.
It was a legit letter from ebay telling me my email address and password had both been changed
sucessfully. Both emails addressed me the proper way and didn't contain any links to click on (even though I already know NOT to click on links in emails). It was a
CONFIRMATION of changes, not to verify (sorry, used the wrong word in previous post). That's why a red flag went up to me. I NEVER made any changes. Who knows how long they were trying to hack into my account anyway and for whatever reason. I only know what ebay told me on why they do it and what they get from it.
Once they got a hold of my password, they logged onto ebay, changed the password and changed the email address I had associated with ebay. The confirmation stated that my email address on ebay was successfully changed from ***@earthlink.net to ***@hotmail.com. I've never used hotmail. Since the email contained the email address that they were using, I was even bold enough to email that person and express my thoughts (not in a nice way either). ebay informed me that since the email address was changed to something they were using, all my end of auction information would have went there and I'm lucky I caught it so soon.
I went to log onto ebay with my password and it wouldn't accept it so I know it was definately changed. I immediately went to the help section and clicked on live help and told them it wasn't me making changes since I wasn't home. They quickly suspended the activity and let me assign a new password and told me to change my email password as well. Again, the emails were legit and someone went on and changed my information. I was never so scared in my life...
With regards to the original OP, the original buyer could have paid by Paypal not knowing what was going on. The scammer wouldn't log onto paypal and send funds...that wouldn't make sense. Who knows...maybe they were hoping the buyer already paid and decided to give a new address. Anything is possible, and again, it was just a suggestion based on my own experience.
