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You really have to be careful if you are selling items on ebay. I too received one of these very authentic looking "ebay emails" a couple of months ago asking me to update my account information at ebay. Naturally, I had to sign in, and then they had my ebay password. A couple of hours before my auctions were to end and armed with my password, they went into ebay and changed my account information, including my email address, payment information, etc. They continued to use my name so as not to alert purchasers. Then they listed a bunch of expensive stuff in new auctions. Of course, by taking over my account, they also took advantage of my excellent feedback on ebay so that unsuspecting bidders would think that they were dealing with a reputable seller instead of some internet pirates. Fortunately, ebay quickly caught it, cancelled the phony listings, and restored my account before I realized what had happened. In my instance, an internet site in Ireland was being used, at least for the fraudulet new email address. My ebay password has since been changed. More recently, I have also received other authentic looking "ebay emails" warning me that due to recent inactivity (not true), my ebay account was going to be cancelled if I did not respond to the email. I wasn't about to let these pirates have my password again, so I didn't respond, and my account hasn't been terminated either! Jim >I got a couple of these e-mails. I turned them over to eBay and also to
the FDLE (Florida Department of Law Enforcement). According to the FDLE, the
e-mails come from Romania, where they don't have laws against such
things.
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