hi guys, just talked to my mum on the phone and it turns out someone has stolen her account and is selling stuff on ebay using her name address and details but they have a different paypal adress, but its even letting my mum edit and end the listings that have appeared, the only way she found out is because a buyer asked about some of the dvd that she was ment to be selling, guys this is well bloddy dodgy she im tears bless hear and thinking the worse, shes ending her paypal account and conntecting ebay and paypal to try and sort it out.

has anyone else had this kind of thing happen??

bloody ebay suks sometimes.

i had it before and its a right pain in the anus!!!

CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD NOW!!!!!!!!! and cancel all the auctions straight away then wait for ebays reply and see wat they say mate

Thats really bad mate.

Hope she gets things sorted.

Would be good if you could let us all know how it happened, once Ebay sort it out of course. We may be able learn somthing from it, and hopefully avoid the same happening to us!! :o

bummer :that_stinks:


password tip: use passwords with combination of letters and numbers at least 10 digits and change every month, you can keep note of them in a diary etc.

hi guys , yeh shes changing her passwords and keeps on deleting the listings but as soon as she deletes them they get re-listed, they have made over £200 now in 3 days and now has a ebay bill of £30, but hopefully ebay will get it sorted soon and she wont have to pay, fingers crossed..

ill let you know whats happened as soon as we know.. :thumbs_up:

usually done buy someone filling in a email or replying to a email they think is from ebay or paypal just dont do it they will never ask u to do that EVER
THATS HOW THEY GET UR DETAILS

yeah agree with carl, i was just gonna reply the same.

get her to go in ebay change email and then password.

if she gets stuck reply here marc i'll run through it all


another tip. use diff email for paypal and diff email for ebay

Shit mate, hope ebay will sort that out by checking ip adress of that pc where was it done, i'd recommend to install on your mom pc kaspersky internet security, best one ever :) http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/

Always always always use a credit card to fund your ebay purchases and bills.

Paypal is notorious for not caring about a claim, and it'll put you out of pocket. With a credit card you can call your bank up and tell them to sort it. You'll get your dosh back, and it's up to PPal and your bank to sort it out, saving you 1. the hassle and sleepless nights, and 2. having to piss around getting in touch with paypal and nagging them.

Good luck sorting it out, and post on here if you need any other help.

Morning All :thumbs_up:

Im glad to say its all sorted now :) my mums ebay account is back to normal and once again safe and sound,lol hopefully will stay that way aswell..

Luckily my mums paypal account was always safe it was just the ebay account that got high-jacked, my mum changed her passwards to get her account safe once more then ebay did there bit, whatever that was! but all her information and history is back to normal, ebay also told her to download the ebay tools as this also has an account protection with it, they also said using the ebay tool will 100% stop users accounts being high-jacked! but thats all they said they could'nt give a real reason on how he did what he did anyway..
Oh yeh and my mum dont have to pay for the bills the git made.

Im glad for my mum it got sorted fast, it took less then about 16 hours to fix so thats not to bad i guess..

Oh well all sorded now so all good :clap:

Good news stories about ebay and paypal are few and far between, so it's good to see one.

Glad you got it sorted!

:clap: :clap: glad its al sorted ! :)

Great news :D

:thumbs_up: :clap: :cheers: init, thanks guys :thumbs_up: