Thursday, April 26, 2007

eBay Account Hijacked!

So, Monday, I get an email from eBay that my account had suspicious activity and has been locked. I hadn't been on there in months and I'm not a big eBay'er so I knew it wasn't me.

I reset my password Tuesday and yesterday I got on with live support and they reactivated me and just said there was suspicious activity but had no more details.

After I was reactivated I started checking around to see what might have been going on. No bids on anything, didn't sell anything, couldn't see anything.

Then I went to My Messages area, nothing in the inbox. I clicked on the Sent folder and there were 25 messages sent to all sorts of different sellers. I started looking through them and every single one was the exact same spam email. eBay notified all those sellers to explain that it wasn't me and that my account had been compromised (I feel like I'm on 24).

I forwarded one of the spam messages to my email account and sent it along with a scathing message, containing many 4 letter words that my mom wouldn't be proud of, to the email address listed as a contact in the spam. Haven't heard back yet.

Here's the body of the message:

Dear Sir or Madam,
We are a big company which mainly sell electronic products with outstanding reputation.
The product ranging from Notbook,TV,PC,Camera,GPS,to MP3/MP4 and so on and so forth.
All kinds of electronic products with best quality and lowest price can be found here, what do you thirst for?
Now , You'll find your favorite here on our website: www.violet8.com
So, don't be hesitate to contact us!

Contact us
www.violet8.com
E-mail: violet8_serve@hotmail.com
MSN: violet8_serve@hotmail.com

Feel free to bombard this jackass with crap...

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