Imposter selling on my ebay account

[jillg123]

I was amazed when my Ebay account got taken over by someone selling tickets to a football game. I only became suspicious because I had some emails offering to buy the tickets from me at a very high price! I wondered what was going on and looked to see I had sales listed on my account. Someone had cracked my password and got into my account and listed the tickets. They even asked buyers to write to another email address. They may even have made some scam sales before being found out for all I know.

Anyway there was a lot of fuss with ebay taking the sales down and making me change my passwords and so on. I couldn't use my account for a while which was inconvenient. The incident made me feel quite shocked really. The things people will do to theive and commit fraud. Had anyone else been scammed like this at all?

Bye for Now
Jill

[Meya]

Good Lord! No! Did you close the account that your were receiving payment through?

[jillg123]

No I didn't have to close the account completely. I have a 100% feedback and didn't want to lose my rating. But I had to wait while ebay closed the scam sales and then I had to change my password. I also had to write to the emails I'd recieved saying it was a scam and nothing to do with me. Now I advise people to have unusual passwords with letters and numbers in them which are harder for scammer to find out.

[alpha]

Did they just want your account because you had a really good score? It's hard to imagine how they pick somebody to impersonate. Sounds like ebay was pretty helpful though, so that's encouraging.

[dreamr802]

I had that happen to me! Well I had someone crack into my ebay account instead of making sales the person had actually tried purchasing things. Ebay noticed that I was making absurb amounts of purchases and shut down my account. I had thought I had a unique password but ebay took care of it and they reopened my account, now I change my password every month.