[Phono-L] An eBay warning to all

[john robles]

Hi all
I had not been able to sign into my eBay account for a week. I signed on as a guest and reported the problem. No response from eBay. Finally today I signed onto a friend's account and got onto the Live Help area. After reporting my problem, the eBay rep asked me to sign out of my friend's account and back on via the Guest sign on.  I did so, and identified myself to the new rep and reported my problem. She checked into it and found that my account had been tampered with by someone else who attempted to change my email and password. eBay caught it in time and suspended the account. They did not tell me if any listings had been made, but they did say that if any were placed that they had been removed and credited.
Here's the scary part - I checked my eBay message box and there was an alert from eBay informing me that my account had been accessed by unauthorized persons and that they had taken action to secure it. I recognized the alert as having been emailed to me a few days ago, but it went to my spam box, not my regular email box. I deleted it thinking it was spam, because it said 'your account may have been accessed by unauthorized parties'. This is a typical phishing line that is used in emails where account information is sought by scaring you into thinking there is a problem.
So the moral is read those spam emails, they may be for real!
John Robles