Ebay Hack News Gets Worse

[CameraQuest]

see http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29310042

It seems ebay has known about this problem for some time and apparently not responded for fear of affecting the ebay experience,

-- to which ebay has now added the fear of phony ebay pages and phony log in requests!
Not to worry , ebay has amazingly not increased its fees for this new feature!

Stephen

 

[Maiku]

I read the same thing last night. eBay will take the problem seriously when it affects its bottom line. Until they will continue on as is.

 

[burancap]

Wow. I have drifted away from eBay for the most part. This sure doesn't bring me back in much of a hurry.

 

[iamzip]

I have significantly curbed my camera habit, but when I do look for something, I usually turn to KEH first. Now, wristwatches on the other hand...😱

 

[keithp]

Good to know. Thanks.

 

[sevo]

However these scams are obvious, the websites are never www.ebay.com.

A really smart hack could be. As long as ebay permits user uploaded software on its pages, there can be no 100% safe protection against a fake page constructed in its entity by a script (and components) resident on official ebay or ebay affiliate sites. At the very best ebay might filter known hacks - but as we all know from anti-virus software that approach must always be at least one step too late...

 

[back alley]

i buy local these days...

 

[Turtle]

ebay is offensive, but sadly still the only game in town if you need to get rid of something quickly. For everything else I use anything else.

 

[Bill58]

fleabay is bad, but PayPal is much worse. when a buyer screws you, you lose every time. No amount of honestly explaining the buyer scam works w/ them.

I'm not in the US now, so I gotta ask here. Is there an alternative to PayPal?

 

[tunalegs]

There's no getting around paypal when using ebay in the U.S. For a while they weren't even letting sellers get away with putting payment in cash (for in person pick up) as an option.

As for the hacked accounts, that's been going on for years. Hackers find an old account with good feedback that hasn't been active a for a while, hack in and place ads for big dollar items they don't actually have. I know because it happened to my ex-stepfather. He was stupid enough to buy a car from an account that had been dormant for over two years - then sent payment by money order.

Couldn't have happened to a better person.

The tip off is almost always that the account hasn't had any recent sales, that the feedback is 100%, and that they suddenly listed a load of big dollar items simultaneously after months or even years of having no listings.

 

[Timmyjoe]

This isn't new, it's been going on for years. In the early 2000's I was in the motion picture camera business. There were numerous scam ebay auction listings each week for motion picture camera equipment where the scammers had hijacked legitimate user's accounts (who had 100% positive feedback) and placed "Buy-It-Now" links in the auctions that brought you to fake ebay log-in pages.

It used to be easy to spot these if you knew what to look for. First click on the user name of the person placing the auction and look at their past auctions, 99% of the time those auctions had nothing to do with motion picture camera equipment. Then click on the "Other Items For Sale" and there would usually be a long list of electronics and camera items. And look for a "Buy-It-Now" link in the wording of the ad, which is against eBay policy.

EBay is never going to do anything about this until they start loosing money, which doesn't look too likely anytime in the near future.

Best,
-Tim

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I hope for alternative to ebay, which is getting crap and crappier.
Now I can't revise my listings and I can't even contact those ( . ) by internal message, only have to call to those morons.