eBay Buyers Please Read

[GReb]

I know there are a lot of guys here who buy off eBay including myself. Last night I woke up to an app notification saying I’d been outbid for an item I didn’t bid on. When I opened the app there were several active bids on my account as well as several items showing I had posted for sale. My first reaction was to change the password but the email on my account had been changed. I was able to remove any saved PayPal accounts or cards saved to my account before any purchase was made.

 

Long story short, eBay was able to correct my account and the rep said this was happening more often since the virus. So please take the 10 seconds out of your day to change your eBay password and never have the same login to both eBay and PayPal. The rep also said hackings in their system were correlating to Amazon as well so he advised changing passwords there too. It’s also a good idea to change your email password every month. 
 

As someone who works in the financial industry I can tell you with 100% certainty that fraudulent activity is rising every month and hackers are becoming very slick. Please be careful and do not click email links or enter information unless you have verified the source. 

[lavbasser]

Thanks for the heads up.

[tander]

Good information, they are out to seal your money.

[HenryPF]

Did you not have 2FA on? Both sites offer that

[Bankc]

Be wary of phishing scams.  Where they send you an official looking email with some inane request, and ask you to log into the site through the link below.  The link looks okay, and the website it takes you to looks legit, but it's not.  And when you try to log in, you're basically giving them your password and email.  It's very easy to mistake it for the real deal.  

As a precaution, never click a link in an email.  If it's a company you do business with, open a new browser window and navigate to that site yourself to log in.  Never download anything that you weren't expecting, no matter how good of a friend or close of a family member sent you the file or link, or how important it might seem.  Basically, react to nothing, no matter how important they make it seem.