Scammer using my ebay acount - from this IP address - how??

busenbust

Now if everyone can stop arguing over pedantic sh*te ~ perhaps we could get on with helping the OP?

:rotfl: :rotfl:

aliEnRIK

fiddiwebb wrote: »

I agree RIK but I would have thought if it was "in house" then that would have been the first place the OP looked.
If it was someone outside who hacked the router then they have gone to a lot of effort to gain accesss, find the OPs eBay passwords just to place an auction.

But again, doing that with the same ip can be difficult in itself

surfer_blue

i have heard this same story before, that time it was suspected internal fraud at ebay....I would ask ebay to provide proof that it was your ip addy, i wager money they wont

obviously, close the ebay account as it has been compromised

i would also scan and scan again to make sure you dont have a trojan

and make sure your password on the router isnt set at admin/password

if all that fails there is only one answer...you have a gang of illegal immigrants living in your loft and using your house and computer whilst you are out! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2122343/Man-found-illegal-immigrants-living-in-loft.html

foreign_correspondent

right, I have read everything people have said, and understood about 10% of it :-)

Thanks though! I do appreciate everyone scratching their heads at this one with me - if nothing else, it makes me feel less alone in my confusion!

however - I can say with pretty much 100% certainty that the listing was not generated from my computer, as I was using it at the time, and was at home alone. (unless of course, I have developed some sort of dreadful condition where I black out and create fraudulent eBay listings for vehicles I do not own!)

My computer is never used by anyone else, and goes out of the house with me occasionally for work purposes, the last time I took the laptop anywhere was a couple of weeks ago, just to deliver a powerpoint. No one else used it at all.

The wireless is secured, and the password is very long and contains letters and numbers. I would change it, but I cannot find the piece of paper it is written on, it is somewhere in the desolate hinterland of the spare bedroom.

I have just ran malwarebytes and kaspersky, nothing untoward came up at all.

My personal theory at the moment is that ebay are full of sh1te, and are lying and/or confused about the IP address - as I cannot see why someone would go to such extraordinary lengths to get onto my ebay and run an auction for a car - as I guess even when done well these sort of scams can only pay out a small percentage of the time.

There were no contact details for the seller, and no payment details - I already looked at all that to see if I could rumble them. Most of the similar scams selling items which are never delivered, come from Nigeria, and judging from the grammar and spelling in the part of the description they had wrote, I would not be surprised if the person who put the auction on was not a native english speaker.

This is all just my theory though - I am going to try and contact ebay and ask them for the IP address later though - anything else I should ask?

Thanks again for all your ideas,

fc

foreign_correspondent

surfer_blue wrote: »

i have heard this same story before, that time it was suspected internal fraud at ebay....I would ask ebay to provide proof that it was your ip addy, i wager money they wont

obviously, close the ebay account as it has been compromised

i would also scan and scan again to make sure you dont have a trojan

and make sure your password on the router isnt set at admin/password

if all that fails there is only one answer...you have a gang of illegal immigrants living in your loft and using your house and computer whilst you are out! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2122343/Man-found-illegal-immigrants-living-in-loft.html

:rotfl:

brilliant, I think you may have cracked it - I will check!!

DrScotsman

foreign_correspondent wrote: »

The wireless is secured, and the password is very long and contains letters and numbers. I would change it, but I cannot find the piece of paper it is written on, it is somewhere in the desolate hinterland of the spare bedroom.

Um, in general, the password you use to access your router isn't (necessarily) the same as your Wifi password, and personally I've never had a router that required you to know your old Wifi password to change it to a new one.

fiddiwebb

If eBay give you the IP address I'll eat my hat and everything else I'm wearing!

Stumped then if your router is secure, computer is clean and nobody else has had access to it, maybe Vladuz has made a comeback then

JustPassingBy

foreign_correspondent wrote: »

Thanks again for all your ideas,

You've eliminated your computer as the source of the listing - either as a voluntary act or not - and your router is secured. That suggests another computer is involved, one which knows your Ebay username and password. The password would have to be extremely simple to be guessed or brute forced. You'll have changed it by now so you might want tell us what it was.

foreign_correspondent

where do I find my own IP address to check it, if they do give me the address the account was accessed from?

foreign_correspondent

JustPassingBy wrote: »

You've eliminated your computer as the source of the listing - either as a voluntary act or not - and your router is secured. That suggests another computer is involved, one which knows your Ebay username and password. The password would have to be extremely simple to be guessed or brute forced. You'll have changed it by now so you might want tell us what it was.

hmm.. well, it was a seven letter made up word, followed by three numbers...

this is not it, but it is similar - flidjer756