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Originally Posted by earlywynnfan
Emailed the second seller, and he said his account was hijacked and he's already reached out to the buyer.
Q: how does this happen? If someone hijacks my account, would I see the item in my "sale" section? When it's paid for, does it go to MY paypal?
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I was recently the victim of a eBay hacker. My ebay account was compromised and the criminal decided to list PS4 gaming systems at a BIN price of $35. Now no reasonable person should believe that anyone would be selling a $300+ video game systems for this price but this guy found over 30 suckers in a matter of minutes! I was sitting enjoying a Christmas Eve night with my family when literally my phone began blowing up with notifications regarding my eBay account. I didn't have any items listed for sale so I knew something was wrong and immediately started taking action. I was locked out of my account as the hacker had changed my password. I had to retrieve access through my email account and then take down the listing but not before 36 gaming systems had been purchased in less than the hour that the listing was up. I am almost exclusively a buyer on ebay and have only sold a handful of items in the past 15 years so there I am trying to figure out just how I am supposed to resolve this. I had no idea where exactly to start and since it was 9 pm on Christmas Eve couldn't get any live assistance. I am still not clear on what exactly the hacker did, but none of the money paid by the buyers went into my PayPal account. Some buyers reported to me receiving shipping confirmation emails of the purchase even that I don't know how were sent. It was a complete pain in the butt even after I was able to get assistance from eBay and I thought it had been fully resolved, but just about 2 weeks ago I got a message from ebay saying my seller account was being restricted due to the poor seller ratings and experience. So apparently even though the fraudulent sales don't show on my account and I have a 100% feedback score ebay must be holding these fraudulent sales against me. If I actually planned to sell anything through there I might worry about it more. I know this situation is different than an account being hijacked long enough to run a week long auction but it is certainly something that can happen to you if you don't have precautions in place. My account was only compromised for less than an hour. Had I not had my ebay account set to send notifications to my phone it might have been a full day, maybe 2 (It was Christmas after all) before I bothered to look at my email or ebay account and if the hacker had thought to deactivate notifications/emails on the account prior to making his listing that is likely what would have happened. Who knows how many people would have been scammed had the listing remained up that long.