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.
