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Buyer bots and hacking your email
Hi,
I've made a new eBay seller account, and I've notice a lot more fake buyers with no ratings sending offers to me, some of them for the above-asking prices(like I'm really that gullible). I obviously do not accept these. I understand my items are targeted because of my own low rating. My problem is that several months ago I accepted a bot's offer and responded to their message about other payment systems with a no (all through eBay's platform), and soon after, within a week or so my email account tied to my eBay account got spam bombed. Someone purchased a phone through my provider. No serious damage was done, but the fraud department said that they would have had to have access to the email account, but it is double secured so I would have known if someone tried to log in from somewhere else. My eBay account also said it was hacked, so I had to call and get that fixed as well.
My concern is that even just responding to a bot's message after purchase can open a back door for a hacker to get access to your email account and eBay account. I know this sort of thing is possible because I've watched youtube videos on how it is done on other sites. I am very reluctant to respond to any offer from anyone who does not have at least some sort of rating, but I don't want to screw over legitimate buyers. I wanted to ask if anyone else has experienced this on eBay or knows if eBay's security infostructure is at least good enough to prevent this.
kh-stanley1
·2 years agoHi everyone,
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Thank you for understanding.
lordchamberlainsmen
·2 years agoIve got a local hacker (landlords managers and kinfolk janitors) who for six years has been breaking in & per 3 carriers, cloned my cells. New cell now, k9, no more breakins..but rootkit suspected in new cell called brokewell. Ebay mail reading from chit chat customers, triggered phone overheating, i believe its possible with zero attachments..body of ebay message has unusual html lengthy stuff referring to yahoo as sender, impossible & not proper if sent thru ebay. The actual message body is way down pages below html/yahoo links. Ive become leery to open all ebay messages after redoing cell, and even my own purchases' senders messages behaving this way..locked down my acct incase hacker is already inside/working from in the acct, and i write the senders back without reading it for now, from looking their usernames up from scratch. Its possible i.m.o, they might gear the Reply linkage to act as a link click.
brightlightbookseller
·2 years agoYou sent that reply to a 2 year old thread.