Another Ebay hacking!!! Read if you Sell!!!

[Verne_Frantz]

Less than 2 hours left and there are still bidders who haven't bothered to read my warning comments in the questions. I've been busy emailing them to urge them NOT to bid or retract their bid. I even had one guy email me and ask, "so, can I buy the rims now?"

This suuucks

[bertfam]

Verne,

Either call them (888-749-3229), or click on the "Live help" link at the top right hand corner of the main ebay page. You might have to wait awhile for someone to get on, but that's probably your best bet at this point.

By the way, that number was found a few months ago so it may not be valid any longer.

Ed

[Verne_Frantz]

Thanks, Right now, I'm just waiting it out. I've lost a lot of respect for Ebay after going through this!

[TXSS]

There is one simple rule to ALWAYS follow regarding ANY email that appears to come to you from eBay or Paypal. If it doesn't have your full name clearly stated in the email it's fake. eBay & Paypal will always refer to you by your full real registered name.

eBay will always have this statement at the top of the email:

eBay sent this message to "Your Full Name" (username).
Your registered name is included to show this message originated from eBay.

Scammers will not have your registered name because if they did they would not be sending you an email because they would already have access to you account.

Never respound to

Dear eBay User

Dear (User Name)

Paypal will always refer to you as Dear "Your Full Name"

Never as:

Dear Paypal User

Dear (User Name)

I've received 1000's of scam emails from eBay & Paypal pretenders. Some have had my username on them but none have ever had my full register name.

That's the golden rule I follow.

Rick

[flyingn]

you could have bid your hacked wheels up to a million dollars to be sure no one if actually gonna win then and give their $$ to these scums..

[PeteLeathersac]

I'm sorry this has happened Verne and wish you the best of luck w/ it all. .

Just a thought but reading how this has transpired, if it's possible to wipe all the bids out and the auction continue, doesn't this makes it possible for a trickster bidder who has the technology to wipe the bids out, make a low bid in the final minutes of a no reserve auction and win cheap? .
Unless the seller was checking for this, they may never know just thinking it reached a low amount and let it go? .

~ Pete

[Verne_Frantz]

I never thought of putting in an extremely high bid just to win my own auction That's a good idea. He got my ebay password and sent a bunch of messages to other sellers with the same "link". When you copied the link to the address bar and hit Enter, it took you to another ebay sign in page (which of course, he created) So, when you fill in your ebay handle and password, you're just giving it to him!
Anyway, I've changed my password and it appears there's no more nonsense going on. Still haven't heard from ebay, except to tell me my password got stolen. Haven't heard anything from them yet about the auction itself. There was a winning bidder who apparently didn't see the warnings I posted. HE asked for a total with shipping, so I wrote him a long note explaining what happened and that the auction had to be void at that point. Haven't heard back from him. I hope he doesn't try to cause trouble.
I had to sit here and email everyone who put in a bid, telling them what was up. Knots in my stomach all night.
Thanks for the clues and advice guys! I appreciate it..

Verne