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Scammed by Ebay

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  • soolin
    soolin Posts: 75,124 Ambassador
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    Beverley_Bill wrote: »
    No I believe it was BT as they asked for me personally and I didnt give any further details.

    Thanks for your suggestion. I shall check this thread again in the morning before we regroup and consider the options

    No seriously, baliisticbrian is right- BT don't call when you use a premium number- go look at the complaints on the phone board where people wish they would call before they rack up £000s of pounds worth of charges.

    A pop up to a dodgy link, a call back on the same number you used- sounds like you have a problem. Go over to the tech boards and ask for advice about a deep clean and investigate your PC, you may have something on there and it could potentially be watching for your ebay or paypal password.
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  • blue_haddock
    blue_haddock Posts: 12,110 Forumite
    RFW wrote: »
    Which? Surely that's the most important part, if it was on Ebay it's a serious matter, if the latter it could be a virus on your computer.

    when i opened the website my anti-virus blocked something from opening so it does seem a VERY dodgy site.

    Plus its as clear as day they are nothing to do with paypal, ebay or twitter
    Cover me in honey and fling me to the hermaphrodites!
  • sharpy2010
    sharpy2010 Posts: 2,471 Forumite
    soolin wrote: »
    http://www.online-help.co.uk/

    You should probably also be aware that the website listed here has a black hole exploit on it, in other words some sort of virus.

    Might be better not to trust that site.
  • sharpy2010
    sharpy2010 Posts: 2,471 Forumite
    AmyPyeh wrote: »
    I never trusted eBay will never trust. It's full of scammers and if you are not careful you get screwed.

    Ok, thanks for this wonderful insight and very informative post.
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