Warning! my eBay Auctions were tampered with!!!

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Posted By: Rick McQuillan

I have been watching this auction since you listed it. I checked on it just it a few hours ago and it looked OK. I just checked it again and it was closed. I wondered what happened to it since the high bid was much less than your original BIN.

About 2 years ago my account was accessed when I clicked on a link that told me that I won an auction. I hadn't bid on this item, and, like an idiot, I clicked on the link and logged in. The next morning I couldn't log in to my account, because someone else had changed the password. I did a search under my username and saw that I had several cell phones for sale, which was weird because I don't sell cell phones. I called ebay customer service and they took care of the problem immediately. Fortunately I had only waited a few hours to log into ebay. If I hadn't tried to log in for a week or two it could have been a real mess. My PayPal account uses a different password than my ebay account, so they couldn't access PayPal.

Good luck with this. Hopefully ebay will catch these scumbags.

Rick