Ebay fraud is pretty scary at 2am!
Posted on August 25, 2006
So last night I was up taping a show for Todd while he was at work. I could’ve gone to bed, but for some reason I didn’t & I decided to watch the show (it was from 12am-1am). I was SO tired too! After the show, I got up to turn off my computer and decided to check my email real quick. I had 99 emails in my inbox! I thought maybe it was spam that leaked thorough, but it came up as 99 auctions placed on my ebay account! They were all for “play money” for an online role playing game that I don’t even own! They were 1 day auctions with “buy it now”s too! I have a 100% feedback rating and I’ve been an ebayer for years, so that would have totally screwed up my ebay account! So, I went on their live help chat and it was quickly fixed- THANK GOD. Now, I know not to click on any links in emails that I get from ebay because they might not actually be from ebay, especially if they ask you to sign in directly from the link they provide. But, I also get copies of messages from customers in my email. At some point, I must have replied to one of those messages through my email, signed in to ebay and that’s how they got me. Evidently, the woman told me they could have my email account information too, so I changed all my passwords and everything. Scary stuff, let me tell you!! I even think I know who it may have been because I had a really fishy transaction with another ebayer and I know I responded to a few of his emails. He bought a cookie cutter from me & supposedly he was from the Philippines. I only take Paypal, so when he told me he sent a wire transfer to me, I was ticked! I should have refused it right then! Plus, he called my phone twice! First of all, I thought he got my number through eBay, but I looked and I don’t think that was possible! Also, when he called me, it was at like 5am! He said it was because it was late in the day for him! I didn’t answer the first time he called, because I didn’t know the number. He left me a message telling me he sent the wire transfer. Then he called me two days later at 5am & again I didn’t answer. I just emailed him and told him never to call me, but to speak to me through emails. I googled his phone number and it turns out it has a New Jersey area code! Right there I should have stopped everything, but I was still giving him the benefit of the doubt thinking he was some foreigner who didn’t understand what was going on. Man, now that I’m thinking about this, I feel pretty stupid having the wool pulled over my eyes like that. It took him a few days to actually give me the number for the wire transfer. And when I finally got the number, I went in to pick up the money and they wouldn’t give it to me because the name he gave me for himself was not the name on the transfer. So I had to email him back to get the name. He finally emails me back with some woman’s name! But, yet I still sent the package… And now I’m realizing as I type this that he now also has my address. Ok, well I’m about to get cracking on having an investigation done on this NOW. Say some prayers for me!
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This is sooo complicated and scarry! I recently recieved a e-mail in my Inbox from some little old lady that said she was in a wheelchair and needed my confirmation # from a auction !?!
I did NOT respond. I tried to block the address but for some reason was not able to?