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09-02-2003, 06:55 PM
Posted By: <b>Rob M</b><p>Ebay bidders, which about all of us are, may want to beware of what I believe is an attempt to pick off Ebay Userid's and Passwords. I received an email with official ebay logos, etc. which indicated it was a "security check". It asked for a resubmission of my userid and password. If you happen to get one of these DON'T SEND IT IN. Ebay does not do this. My guess is it came from a fraud auction that I tried to stop yesterday. Even though this was not related to baseball I will give some details for the curious since we see a lot of this with ebay card auctions. The legit auction was ebay auction number 2552947008. Shortly after it closed a phoney one was started as auction 2555171678. It was a different seller that copied the earlier auction and was holding a "private auction" and didn't list his location. He offered the "one of a kind" item at half the price. I notified the original seller and both of us turned it into the vacationing ebay security. Meanwhile, of coarse, somebody took the "buy it now". They will probably be screwed before ebay wakes up tomorrow. I tried scaring off the fraudulent seller with an email. I didn't hear back from them (suprisingly) but this afternoon I received the "security check" email supposedly from ebay. I believe it was this same person trying to steal my ebay account. I believe they probably stole the one they are using from the crime as the person who had the account of the fraudulent auction had a very respectible and long feedback (although it is not unheard of for people to build a solid feedback before the crime but they usually go after a big "hit" with multiple fraud auctions before disappearing). Anyway, as always, BEWARE and have pity for the freshman ebayers out there that are learning a hard lesson.