Posted By:
Steve fJoe,
I believe it's ebaY's new DEFCON security program. Same thing happened to my account a couple of weeks ago. I believe I'd hacked into my own account.
Occured after listing some things and I had inadvertantly tried to access the account while browsing with my 'buyer' account -without logging out. All my current auctions were 'ended' and 'fees refunded'.
It's a hassle to rereg and relist, but at the same time comforting.
On a related matter, for those new to fighting spam... You can easily trace spoof ebaY and PP emails using arin.net, then forward the scam mail to their provider's abuse@ dept. I catch a lot of asian and eastern european hackers doing this but, realize it has limited overall effect.