Hacked account listings

mookie

It seems to take ebay too long to remove these types of listings, loads of the same item which retails at £98.00

230254372413 this one the member has responded to questions saying its a fraud on their account, surely people must see this is far too good to be true yet they are asking questions with the intent to buy.

and this one on another members account 270239112035

brettcta

scammers play on peoples greed.

a hell of a lot of people see jewellery that is a lot cheaper than it usually retails for, they go to buy it with the intent of reselling to make a profit and get stung.

the pound signs seem to cover up the alarm bells ringing in their head

Premier_2

Both items have now been removed by ebay

However, it seems a very strange situation. Any decent hacker would surely change the password of the account to prevent the real owner from interfering with the hackers sales.

Even if the hacker left the original password, if I was the real account account holder I would be more interested in (a) changing my password as a matter of priority to prevent the hacker returning and (b) cancelling all bids and ending the sale rather than posting replies on the listing suggesting the account was hijacked.

Full details of what eBay suggest an account holder who suffers a hijacked account are available here:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/confidence/isgw-account-theft-reporting.html