Posted by Gunther Gloop on 03/21/07 16:25

"D L S" <todamon@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Mar 21, 10:58 am, "Gunther Gloop" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>> Yesterday I got 5 emails from an ebay customer, sent via ebay to my ebay
>> userid, telling me to go shop for their products (or something).
>>
>> Today ebay emailed me to say "It appears that your eBay password has
>> become
>> known to a third party."
>
> Or something? I usually get the ones saying they have bought some item
> I was not selling and demanding to know when I am sending it. On the
> same email will be a link to a spoofed ebay site they hope I will
> click. What annoys me is that they use my genuine "ebay only" email
> address.
>


That's whats so strange. If it had genuinely been compromised by a
third-party how would ebay know before I would? How would they know it
wasn't me trying to do some scam?

That's why my guess is ebay themselves have compromised my details, then
changed my password. Or possibly they tracked a number of 'attacks' on my
account, then changed my password.
Not sure how or why -or what _actually_ happened of course.

I hadn't logged in to my ebay account in any way for the past few _months_,
but obviously I would rather retain my existing ebay account.

-Kevin

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