How about the sellers account was hijacked because he fell for a phishing
scam. Or downloaded a virus that collected his ebay id and password. Ebay
will probably have logs that show that someone provided a good id and
password. It's not ebay's responsibility or capability to know that the
person using the id and password is really the correct person.

Our ebay account got hijacked. Ebay found it very quickly and disabled it.
I never figured out how it was hijacked because we're pretty good about
recognizing the phishing stuff. After I go it turned back on I got the $5
verisign token for it and paypal.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:01:44 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Dec 3, 2:42 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:21:18 -0800 (PST), wrote:
On Dec 3, 1:17 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
"Don White" wrote in message

. ..

Noticed this item...
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/200...ay-hijack.html

Here, you would just sue Ebay.

Bull****.

I'd say he's got one hell of a case. eBay is responsible for their
servers - they they were hacked, they are responsible.

Nope, not necessarily.

Ok, just for the sake of discussion, what's the caveat?

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:32:27 -0500, "jamesgangnc"
wrote:

How about the sellers account was hijacked because he fell for a phishing
scam. Or downloaded a virus that collected his ebay id and password. Ebay
will probably have logs that show that someone provided a good id and
password. It's not ebay's responsibility or capability to know that the
person using the id and password is really the correct person.

All good points.

Doesn't explain contacting email accounts though - I can't see how a
hacker would get around that unless you had the same email password as
your eBay account which doesn't seem likely.

Or maybe it is.

Our ebay account got hijacked. Ebay found it very quickly and disabled it.
I never figured out how it was hijacked because we're pretty good about
recognizing the phishing stuff. After I go it turned back on I got the $5
verisign token for it and paypal.

Well, at least that's a positive.

How did you find out about the hijacking?

"jamesgangnc" wrote
How about the sellers account was hijacked because he fell for a phishing
scam.

Hard to say from the account in the OP, but most likely the phisherman then
hoodwinked the buyer into sending a large advance payment, just as eBay
advises everyone not to do. Shoulda been red flags all over this deal.

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:32:27 -0500, jamesgangnc penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|How about the sellers account was hijacked because he fell for a phishing
|scam. Or downloaded a virus that collected his ebay id and password. Ebay
|will probably have logs that show that someone provided a good id and
|password. It's not ebay's responsibility or capability to know that the
|person using the id and password is really the correct person.
|
|Our ebay account got hijacked. Ebay found it very quickly and disabled it.
|I never figured out how it was hijacked because we're pretty good about
|recognizing the phishing stuff. After I go it turned back on I got the $5
|verisign token for it and paypal.

eBay owns Paypal......PayPal now owns VeriSign and from the attempted
screwing I got from PayPal..... I feel no sense of security.....

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