Reporting account theft at eBay

[weblord]

eBay works hard to make sure your account information stays safe, including working with eBay users to help protect their account against unauthorized users. If you think your eBay account was stolen from you, bought and sold items using your account, report the account theft.

Secure your account:

If you suspect that someone knows your userid and password at eBay, change your account information and take steps to secure your identity.

1. Try to sign into your eBay account:

If you can't sign in, contact eBay immediately. If your account has been used without your permission, eBay will work out with you in securing your account. eBay will request change of password and may place temporary hold on eBay's user account.

If you can sign, in follow these steps:

- Change your password on your personal email account. Make sure you have different passwords for every online access you might have, use different password for your email account and your eBay account.

2. Secure your eBay account

- Request a new ebay password

You have to answer a few questions and eBay once satisfied with the answers will send you instruction and a link to change your password. Make it usually 12 characters, lowercase, uppercase and numbers.

- Change the secret question and answer in your account

Always create a secret question and answer and make it as difficult as you can.

- Verify the account information in your account.

If your account was compromised, chances are the information there will be changed as well without your permission.

3. Protect Your Identity

Don't click or reply to a fake email, always do your transactions inside eBay's secure website.

[jr_sci]

Thanks for providing the information. I am thankful to you for providing such valuable user related information.

[weblord]

finally you can report the fake buyer at ebay, keep those thanks coming in.

[jr_sci]

Yes, I had a lot of fake buyers coming in and bidding in my items to raise the price unnecessarily. I guess, my rival sellers did that to put me down. Never mind, I block such buyers having zero feedbacks

[weblord]

yeah i almost forgot about the competition, there are competitors that will play underground and below the belt, blocking them is the best option to do and reporting them as well, so they can be traced to the original and master account and ebay should suspend or terminate their account.

[jr_sci]

I wonder why people wants to go underground and play tricks in business. If at all they are businessman then they must come openly in business battle. Why hide and fire?

[weblord]

well not all people have the same morals for one reason, one can make money even using illegal means, what's important to them only is having money, sacrificing their reputation, so they hide.

[jr_sci]

May be you are right WebLord. There are a number of people who do business just for money. Well money can be an important issue but they should have some business ethics as well.